Much like the internet and the advent of the smartphone, A.I. adoption in the workplace has the potential to be both hugely beneficial and profoundly risky. While workers are eager to use generative A.I. like ChatGPT to their advantage, they also fear the technology could one day reach a level of sophistication that would pose a genuine threat to their own jobs—and their pay.
Seventy-nine percent of workers feared or were on the fence that A.I. implementation would become so beneficial at helping them with their work that employers would issue a pay cut, according to a survey of 3,000 employed American adults by Checkr, a company that provides employee background screening. Millennials led the pack at 82%, compared to 78% of Gen Xers, 77% of boomers, and 74% of Gen Zers.
