Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work – David Gerard – 10 May 2025 Today in science discovering the obvious, if you use chatbots to pump out the AI slop at work, your coworkers think you’re an incompetent and lazy arse. And they are absolutely judging you for it. [PNAS] This also applies if you’re looking for a job — using chatbots at work is the mark of a shirker. Jessica Reif, Richard Larrick, and Jack Soll at Duke University surveyed 4,400 people over four studies. They found that using AI at work consistently attracts a strong “social evaluation penalty.”
Despite all the AI hype, and the “everyone is doing it” chatter, which includes all the messaging I’m so sick of coming from “job tips” sources insisting that being a good “prompt engineer” is essential to your job future…
But the fact is that I only rarely come in contact with people actually sanguine about the use of AI chatbots, and typically it’s people in comments sections making off-hand comments who either have no idea how faulty and wrong chatbots can be, or are perhaps just paid internet trolls or something.
You’ll be shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job Pivot to AI May 9, 2025
Most people I know personally, even those barely informed about what AI isn’t, are still skeptical, and at a minimum find people using it for all sorts of communications in the workplace or elsewhere to be severely off-putting.