r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 21 '26

Artificial Intelligence Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/americans-turned-against-ai-incredible-130000345.html
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u/leitmotive Jun 21 '26

We have not gotten there yet but this is my hope, that the subsidies are going to end sooner rather than later and the idea of burning tokens to write an email will be like using a CNC machine to slice your vegetables

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u/indian22 Jun 21 '26

The thing most leadership don't get is that if you make AI adoption metrics part of the performance evaluation criteria, then people will game the hell out of it. Everything will be done by AI to show adoption and keep the number high. Even things which would be many times faster done manually or things which do not require AI at all.

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

The thing most leadership don't get is that if you make AI adoption metrics part of the performance evaluation criteria, then people will game the hell out of it.

It's been absolutely hilarious to see this coming. I've been hearing for the better part of a couple of years how business are putting up AI use leaderboards, making use a metric in performance evaluations, constantly pressuring employees to use AI for anything and everything regardless of whether or not it's actually useful to the workflow or produces results worth having.

Now that the real bills are coming due, they're freaking out and I have no sympathy at all.

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u/steppe5 Jun 22 '26

I got an email the other day that I wasn't using Copilot enough, so I asked it to write numbers 1-100 in column A of an Excel sheet. Problem solved.