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Business · 14 September 2026

Your colleagues are using AI and hiding it

Your colleagues are using AI and hiding it

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Most workers who use AI keep quiet about it. A KPMG study of 48,000 people across 47 countries found 57% had passed AI-generated work off as their own, while almost half had fed sensitive company information into public tools. Only 40% said their employer had any policy on it, which is the gap now breeding suspicion between colleagues, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

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