The Great AI Regret: Over Two-Thirds of Workers Feel Nostalgic for Pre-AI Work and 43% Would Remove GenAI From the World

Commentary: Why workers are nostalgic for life before AI

Many white-collar professionals worry about the tech inhibiting creativity and making errors, says this writer for the Financial Times.

The great AI regret: Over two-thirds of workers feel nostalgic for pre-AI work and 43% would remove GenAI from the world

70% regularly feel nostalgic for how work operated before AI, with 33% saying they preferred it. 43% would remove GenAI

Why workers are nostalgic for life before artificial intelligence

Many white-collar professionals worry about the tech inhibiting creativity and making errors

Workers are already nostalgic for life before AI

Almost two-thirds of white-collar workers regularly yearn for their old working life, according to consultancy Adaptavist.

Many workers would remove generative AI, survey finds

Many employees say AI-generated work is adding checks, slowing projects and making jobs feel less meaningful, a new survey shows.

The great AI regret: Two-thirds of workers feel nostalgic for pre-AI work, and 38% would remove GenAI from the world

Neal Riley, AI Innovation Lead at The Adaptavist Group, commented: These findings point to an underlying gap.