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"Workers are hiding their AI productivity hacks from bosses" (self.technology)
submitted 1 year ago by Rifal to c/[email protected]
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A Wharton professor believes that businesses should motivate their employees to share their individual AI-enhanced productivity hacks, despite the prevalent practice of hiding these tactics due to corporate restrictions.

Worker's Use of AI and Secrecy:

  • Employees are increasingly using AI tools, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, to boost their personal productivity and manage multiple jobs.
  • However, due to strict corporate rules against AI use, these employees often keep their AI usage secret.

Issues with Corporate Restrictions:

  • Companies tend to ban AI tools because of privacy and legal worries.
  • These restrictions result in workers being reluctant to share their AI-driven productivity improvements, fearing potential penalties.
  • Despite the bans, employees often find ways to circumvent these rules, like using their personal devices to access AI tools.

Proposed Incentives for Disclosure:

  • The Wharton professor suggests that companies should incentivize employees to disclose their uses of AI.
  • Proposed incentives could include shorter workdays, making the trade-off beneficial for both employees and the organization.

Anticipated Impact of AI:

  • Generative AI is projected to significantly transform the labor market, particularly affecting white-collar and college-educated workers.
  • As per a Goldman Sachs analysis, this technology could potentially affect 300 million full-time jobs and significantly boost global labor productivity.

Source (Business Insider)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What a dumb article. Two major points are missing:

  1. If the employee shares their tricks the company will just fire them. Then replace them with the scripts / AI. Or simply hire someone for far cheaper who starts those scripts once a day..
  2. Companies don't want you to use AI because you're leaking company secrets. If you pump things into ChatGPT they are logged and might be re-used. So if I put my company numbers in there or private info or whatever else they will get leaked sooner or later. It's a massive security issue.