[throwaway981120]

> A survey by Dayforce, a software firm, finds that while 87% of executives use ai on the job, just 57% of managers and 27% of employees do. Perhaps middle managers set up ai initiatives to satisfy their superiors’ demands, only to wind them down quietly at a later date.

The article quietly ignored two better explanations: the day to day work of executives can be automated more easily (Manna vibes) and/or the execs have a vested interest in AI succeeding so they can cut headcount so they are evangelists for AI.

[fullshark]

I think it's that employees are afraid to say they use AI and executives are eager to say they use AI. Managers of course occupy both worlds.

[rvnx]

There is a big compliance issue as well, in many corporations, AI is strictly forbidden so employees will claim they do not use AI at all, but they do.

Medical doctors as well, officially 0%, reality ?

Also many programmers hide the truth, because it is quite difficult to justify their salary (that was priced from the pre-AI times when programming was much more difficult).