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We’re Only Starting to Grasp the Pitfalls of Using A.I. at Work

Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,” even including them in their organizational charts... human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting edge.

But... researchers found that managers tended to vet documents less carefully when told an A.I. employee had produced them. The managers missed errors that other managers caught when told they were vetting the work of a human.

Voters Think A.I. Is Terrible. In Campaigns, It’s Everywhere.

A.I.-generated images are the public face of this election overhaul. Behind the scenes, campaigns are using the technology to analyze voter data, craft campaign materials and write custom messages.

On a recent afternoon, Alex Bond [was] ticking off the political issues of greatest concern to him. After gas prices and taxes, he named data centers .... “A.I. is terrible... and it’s probably going to kill us all.”

He was speaking with a pair of political canvassers... What [he] didn’t realize was that his comments would soon be processed inside one of those very A.I. data centers.