Wharton professor says employees are hiding A.I. use—and potentially transformative productivity gains—from employers

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Artificial intelligence is enabling new ways of accomplishing tasks, and at many companies employees are taking full advantage of it to do their jobs better. There’s just one problem: They often keep quiet about it. 

Ethan Mollick, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, described the problem Sunday on his blog One Useful Thing. He knows first-hand about A.I. productivity boosts: Earlier this year, he gave tools like ChatGPT 30 minutes to work on a business project and called the results “superhuman.”