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"Why does the boss like to use AI so much?"

"Why do I feel more tired after using AI?"

Scraped by ChatGPT The AI ​​whirlwind has started almost 2 years ago. In the past two years, the world has seemed to have been pushed by AI, and workers have inevitably been pushed forward by AI.

Recently, a new survey covering more than 17,000 respondents in 15 countries around the world presents the complex and contradictory details of current employment in a workplace dominated by the AI ​​craze. Feeling: Bosses are full of expectations for AI. They not only want to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also want to innovate and break through. And the workers, after quietly using AI, love and hate it.

The bosses are all in AI, but the workers are starting to "get down"

In this August 2024 survey data, 99% of bosses plan to invest in AI in the next year, and 97% of bosses are eager to apply AI to their business. "All in AI (promoting AI)" has almost become a unified strategy for bosses around the world.

In the expectations of bosses, there are many benefits of using AI: it can not only reduce costs and increase efficiency, but also promote work innovation and assist decision-making. It is simply a good helper that serves multiple purposes.

However, while the bosses are enthusiastic about "All in AI", the workers are "bowing down" to AI.

When AIGC first appeared, everyone was imagining how great it would be to let AI do their work for them! Data shows that 76% of migrant workers hope to become AI experts and are eager to improve their AI skills. As of August 2024, 36% of migrant workers worldwide will use AI at work, an increase of 4% from March.

However, more and more workers are using AI, and they are gradually disenchanted with AI. In the past three months, the proportion of workers who are excited about AI doing their jobs has dropped by 6% (from 47% to 41%). This is also the first time that enthusiasm for AI has waned in many surveys conducted by Slack Workforce Lab, the publisher of this questionnaire, since the emergence of AIGC.

Specifically, France, the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom have experienced varying degrees of cooling. Among them, French employees’ excitement about AI empowerment work has dropped by 12% (from 53% to 41%). %).

The boss hopes that AI can empower work, and the workers want to use AI to touchFish

It is true that from Wen Shengwen to Wen Sheng pictures and Wen Sheng videos, AI's work skills have continued to evolve, and it does seem that it can help replace humans in completing some tasks. daily work.

But when workers use AI to work, they consider not only whether AI can do it, but also many practical factors in the workplace environment. They are full of uncertainty about the collateral impacts of using AI.

According to research, 48% of migrant workers currently say that they dare not tell their bosses that AI is used in tasks such as writing emails, organizing data, and designing PPT.

The reason why workers secretly use AI but dare not say it is because they are afraid of what their bosses think: on the one hand, workers are worried that they will be considered insufficient, and they are even worried about whether AI will steal their jobs. On the other hand, I am also concerned about whether my boss will think I am being lazy.

At the same time, the person in charge of Slack Workforce Lab said that workers are also worried that after using AI to save time, their bosses feel that they can complete work tasks faster, which will increase their workload and become more difficult. Busy.

When asked “What do I want to do with the time I hope to save using AI?”, the workers actually don’t want to use it for work. But when asked "What will they actually do with the time saved by AI?", the workers' answer was to deal with more work-related content.

There is no doubt that mankind has entered the AI ​​era, and AI has sneaked into every crevice of our work and life. In the past two years surrounded by AI, have you become busier and more tired, or have you paid more attention to your own life and your own heart?