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by treetalker 60 days ago
Claim:

> Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s AI rollout

What is "sabotage"?

> The sabotage entails entering proprietary information into public AI tools, or using unapproved AI tools. Some employees report outright refusing to use AI tools. Others have even admitted to tampering with performance reviews or intentionally generating low-output work to make AI appear less effective.

Wow, so "sabotage" means using "AI tools" (LLMs?) in a way management doesn't want; or using AI tools other than the ones management mandates; or not using any AI tools at all!

How fearful are the members of Gen Z surveyed? The journalistic report of a commercial report of a commissioned study that is not available for review … doesn't say. But how many Gen Z members "admit" to "sabotaging" their employers' "AI" strategy in the defined way? Of those surveyed in the dubious study: a minority of

> 44%[.]

Were those surveyed asked directly if they were literally "sabotaging" AI rollouts? Again, the report of a commercial report of a commissioned and unavailable study doesn't say. But I doubt it.

And the journalism's coming from Fortune doesn't exactly help its credibility.