When AI Does Your Job Faster

49% of employees secretly use AI at work. The other half are in denial. Both responses are destroying your transformation efforts.

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Even though I’ve been writing for a while about the constant capability increases of AI models, the acceleration keeps surprising even tech optimists. But the most interesting pattern isn't the technology. It's how professionals react when machines do their work faster, better and cheaper.

The response is remarkably binary. When Goldman Sachs estimated that AI could automate much of legal work, lawyers split into two camps: early adopters and resisters. Translation tells an even starker divide. Research shows machine translation cost the industry about 28,000 jobs between 2010 and 2023. People either deny it's happening or fall into despair. There's no middle ground.

This pattern paralyses organisations. Nearly half of all workers now hide their AI use, with 49 percent of employees secretly using AI at work according to recent surveys. When your best people are either denying reality or hiding their adaptation, nothing moves forward.

On the other side of the issue is a persisten…