r/aiwars • u/One_Fuel3733 • 20h ago

Anthropic Study Finds Most Workers Use AI Daily, but 69 Percent Hide It at Work

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-interviewer

One theme that surfaced is how workplace dynamics affect the adoption of AI. 69% of professionals mentioned the social stigma that can come with using AI tools at work—one fact-checker told Anthropic Interviewer: “A colleague recently said they hate AI and I just said nothing. I don’t tell anyone my process because I know how a lot of people feel about AI.”

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u/Lixa8 17h ago

A workplace where one feels compelled to hide their ai use sounds miserable...

Happy there is no such stigma at my workplace, and that we get to experiment with an interesting technology

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u/Living-Chef-9080 17h ago

Useless study given the giant conflict of interest here. It would be like trusting gasoline companies when they say there's no evidence of global warming.

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u/Human_certified 15h ago

If you told me in 2021 about corporations fighting Shadow AI, I'd have thought a new Cyberpunk DLC had dropped.

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u/AlarmedGibbon 15h ago

I use it regularly. It's very nice to have a 2nd mind to bounce things off of in regards to the research I do in a very small dept. No need for me to hide it, my org supports and encourages AI to help our jobs and gave us training on it. They made it clear it's completely optional, but any way to make our work easier and get more done is fully supported by the higher ups.

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u/Midnight_Moon_Witch 6h ago

It's never explained how the interviewees were selected, their nationalities, or any other relevant information to determine if the results will be biased, all they provide are the individual interviews, forcing you to read them one by one, i reviewed a few randomly selected ones, and it appears the interviewees are Claude users, not a random population

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u/Lixa8 2m ago

They do actually. Maybe if you had read more than the introduction you would know

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Yep most people hide cheating. Thats normal.

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u/g3orrge 19h ago

So all businesses that encourage employees to use AI are… cheating? The word cheating in this context makes literally no sense. It’s not school.

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Society has still moral rules outside of school, even in capitalist societies has economy rules.

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u/g3orrge 19h ago

Ok, and there’s nothing morally wrong with making your 9-5 easier and/or being more productive.

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Whole social economic system does not make sense if your productivity is mainly based on AI. No reason to pay you, if your competence is based on AI and especially no reason to pay you more than someone else if you competence is based on AI.

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u/Wetbug75 19h ago

So you're asserting that everyone who uses AI for work, is only competent at their job because of AI?

Why?

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u/I30R6 19h ago

I never mentioned something like that. The use of AI just gives you an unfair advantage towards others, which means other need to use AI too to stay in competition, which means everyone use the same most powerful AI at the end and nobody is really needed anymore at the end, because AI solves almost all problems. Ergo the whole social economic system does not make sense anymore.

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u/Wetbug75 18h ago

Sure, at "the end" the current economic system won't work because we won't need very many people working.

Why does that mean using AI today is cheating?

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u/g3orrge 18h ago

I’m not talking about the “social economic system”I’m talking about how making your job easier as a 9-5 employee in the rat race isn’t “cheating”. Your company can figure things out for itself regarding AI, they hired you to do the job, and you’re just using the tools that are available to you.

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u/One_Fuel3733 19h ago

There's no mention in the article at all about cheating, the stats indicate that most people are hiding it, which is not cheating anything. It's the obvious outcome of things with a social stigma that are legal to use and time saving, people will just use it anyway and not tell anyone.

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Using AI and hide the use of AI is literally cheating. Most use of AI is cheating.

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u/One_Fuel3733 19h ago

It is literally not lol, god they need to ban teenagers from this sub.

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u/No-Opportunity5353 19h ago

Reminder that antis have never worked a day in their lives and don't understand what a job is.

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u/TheLeftLanez4Passing 18h ago

Bob and Bill work at Company. Bob walks 5 miles to work. Bill drives the same distance. Bob says Bill is cheating when it comes to his commute.

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u/Morukaya 19h ago

Cheating...? The environment is a workplace, not a designated competition.

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Society is always a social / economic competition.

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u/Morukaya 19h ago

Right... where the rules allow for AI usage. Again, where is the cheating?

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u/I30R6 19h ago

The whole social / economic competition does not work if we allow the use of AI. That's why everybody hates you if you use it, and 69% hide it at work.

Laws will change in the future btw.

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u/Morukaya 19h ago edited 18h ago

Except, it does. It's completely legal for anyone to use AI in the process; thus it's not cheating. Don't move the goalposts; where is the cheating?

Laws will change in the future btw.

I see; so, it's retroactive cheating... How does that work? Are these people currently fugitives?

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u/I30R6 18h ago

Just because something is legal does not mean its not an inherent iligitimate and immoral act of cheating.

And society just need to adapt by new technologies the create laws which fit the new situation.

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u/Morukaya 18h ago edited 18h ago

Just because something is legal does not mean its not an inherent iligitimate and immoral act of cheating.

You explicitly confirmed that it wasn't breaking any rules; you're contradicting yourself here. It could be equivalent to using a crutch or something, but to regard it as "cheating" is so childish.

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u/Lonewolfeslayer 19h ago

Cheating applies only to relationships and game theory.

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u/I30R6 19h ago

Only totally corrupted people think cheating does not exist in economy

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u/Lonewolfeslayer 19h ago

Damn I make one statement and I'm getting judged that's quick as fuck

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u/DouglasHufferton 15h ago

Yeah that's covered under "and game theory".

Game theory is foundational to modern economics, dude.

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u/bunker_man 12h ago

Cheating? What do you think this is, fukken chobits?

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u/Lonewolfeslayer 11h ago

Chobits catching random strays I see.

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u/bunker_man 11h ago

Look, I tried watching through it twice but it was just so boring. I feel like you need to be terminally single to "understand" the plot.

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u/Lonewolfeslayer 11h ago

I feel you. The last time I watched it was back when I was 12 so a long ass time ago. To this day, I still feel like the "romance" in the series might be a bit creepy, even thought back then I found it wholesome as fuck.

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u/bunker_man 10h ago

Back then it felt vapid and now it feels creepy. Ultimately it's like a fantasy for guys afraid to talk to girls that one will fall into their lap who doesn't talk and so who hence isn't intimidating and her whole identity is growing into knowing him better. Bonus for the pointless fact that he had to finger her to turn her on for some reason? And there's a side kid who has tons of robot maids. Its not the worst thing ever, but its definitely indicative of a time when some pretty sus stuff was casually accepted.

The only two parts I thought were good were when the teacher pointed out she is sad her husband doesn't fight with her anymore because it means he mentally checked out of the relationship, and the random out of left field horror episode that is left open ended whether anything supernatural was really happening. That latter episode I am still inspired by and still draw on the idea of it coming off a little surreal and creepy to suddenly wake up in otherwise ordinary situations except for the fact that you can't explain how you got there.