The resistance is measurable, the anxiety is real—and neither will slow down what’s coming.
A new global survey of 3,750 executives and employees across 14 countries finds more than 54% of workers bypassed their company’s AI tools in the past 30 days and completed the work manually instead. Another 33% haven’t used AI at all. Combined, roughly eight in 10 enterprise workers are either avoiding or actively rejecting the technology their employers are spending record sums to deploy. And yet 50% of Americans told Plaid researchers this week managing money without AI will soon feel outdated—and 52% already expect their fintech apps to use it.
