AI Mistrust Costing Businesses £29bn

AI mistrust is making work slower, not faster – UK employees spend almost as long checking AI as using it, depriving large businesses £29bn worth of productivity

Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec 18 Mar 2026|StatisticsAI mistrust is making work slower, not faster – UK employees spend almost as long checking AI as using it, depriving large businesses £29bn worth of productivityAI mistrust could be costing large UK businesses £29 billion per year in unrealised value, according to new Censuswide research commissioned by UnlikelyAI Censuswide research finds employees in large organisations spend almost as…

AI mistrust costing businesses £29bn

Mistrust in AI could be costing businesses £29 billion in lost productivity, according to technology company UnlikelyAI. The post AI mistrust costing businesses £29bn appeared first on Personnel Today.

Employer News:AI mistrust is making work slower, not faster – UK employees spend almost as long checking AI as using it, depriving large businesses £29bn worth of productivity

Censuswide research finds employees in large organisations spend almost as much time checking, verifying or manually redoing AI’s outputs as they do using AI itself, undermining intended productivity gains Findings suggest this verification burden is fuelling “AI burnout” – mental fatigue that employees report from the cognitive load of endlessly checking answers AI innovator and […] The post AI mistrust is making work slower, not faster – UK em…