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Using ChatGPT at work? Your boss may trust you less, new study finds

Across six studies, supervisors trusted AI-using workers less, but explicit company support for AI use reduced the penalty.

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Artificial intelligence may be making employees faster and more productive, but it could also be quietly damaging their careers. A new study led by Samuel Meyers, a Ph.D. student, together with his adviser Dr. Yochanan Bigman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Roman Briker of WHU—Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany, suggests that workers who use ChatGPT and other AI tools may pay an unexpected professional price: their manag…

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A study has found that employees who use ChatGPT receive 44 percentage points less trust from their supervisors than those who work alone. In a study published in the international journal *The Leadership Quarterly* by a joint research team from the Hebrew University of Israel and the WHU Otto Weissheim School of Management in Germany, supervisors showed trust in 68% of employees who completed tasks independently, whereas this figure dropped to…

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