Thoughts on companies requiring AI use for promotion and performance?

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What do you think of this article ? I'd love to know- I work in a tech company and we are the same..there's been lots of badmouthing AI in work recently on threads here so interested to hear perspectives? https://www.businessinsider.com/accenture-ceo-ai-use-is-required-for-promotion-2026-3

Well like a lot of things in the work place there is a lot I personally would prefer not being there but putting our head in the sand won't make it go away

Companies are all using AI now. If Accenture didn't, they would fall behind competitors. So I think it makes sense that staff should use it.

i think this is fine. It’s pretty normal these days and staff need to use it, just like they needed to use email and the internet when they became available.

I think it’s fine as well, same as any other tool that makes work quicker.

Same at Amazon and Block (there was an article in the Guardian yesterday), issue is that the users don’t think AI is helping them. or they feel they’re training their replacement.

All the idiots at the C-suite level have drunk the kool aid of AI and need to justify the billions they have spent on it.

If AI genuinely makes a job easier, employees will want to use it and will jump in. But if it makes things harder or just creates slop that has to become corrected, then employees will avoid it. The fact that companies are imposing requirements to make people use AI suggests it is the latter.

when google first arrived (I remember it), no one had to tell us to use it because it was so obviously useful. That doesn’t seem to always be true for the AIs.

The feeling of ‘training your replacement’ is completely valid. I sat with colleagues a few days ago and one of them showed us how to do some research with AI which took 30 minutes. It would usually take us 2 weeks. We looked at each other and said ‘bye bye jobs’. It does need a lot of checking but is a very strong basis, and is improving all the time.

I’m just trying to get really good at using it for work, as I think that’s the only way forward for me to stay employed.

Accenture is a consulting house so I doubt anyone will be able to tell the difference between a nonsense PowerPoint produced by a greedy egotistical grad and one produced by AI. Accenture is also somewhere that is always conjuring up reasons to cull people anyway.

I am sure I saw some research that found that even where workers felt like they'd saved time using AI, they'd actually spent 20% longer on the task than without AI. They only felt like they'd saved time because they expected that outcome and because they spent their time differently.

It also de-skills people. Plenty of research demonstrating that.

What kind of research? Hopefully nothing that requires critical analysis or novel thinking.

Barely a week seems to pass without someone getting in serious trouble using AI for legal research.

@decorationdaypharma. A colleague had chosen the scientific papers for the AI to ‘read’ and draw conclusions from and a human would validate it all afterwards.