Why employees are so secretive about using AI at work — and why they shouldn’t be

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The AI revolution is happening at work whether people admit it or not. While leadership teams debate AI policies, employees are already using these tools, often in secret — and that can create an organizational blind spot that undermines innovation and oversight.

That’s the word from Justin Hale, master trainer at the professional training and consulting company Crucial Learning, who maintains that the problem isn’t that employees are using AI — it’s that they are afraid to talk about it. Leaders “need to go in thinking, I’m just going into the conversation expecting there’s going to be people that are fearful or unsure or uneasy, and so I need to double down on my invitation, my curiosity, my openness,” he said.

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