Your employees are absolutely using AI and 25% or more are using ChatGPT

It is time to make AI standard issue for anyone who works in front of a computer. It is common to hear that 95 percent of large-scale AI projects fail according to MIT’s 2025 State of AI in Business report. I say SO WHAT. We are focused on the wrong thing and we are not talking about what moves the needle. 

While enterprise AI pilots may struggle, there is a wave of progress happening at the individual level that we aren't really talking about. According to recent OpenAI research (available below), 28 percent of employees are now using ChatGPT for work even if their company does not officially approve or pay for it. Employees are delivering results with or without company support. Is there a security risk? Absolutely. What is your company doing about it? Simply putting a note against AI usage in your policy handbook is not enough! 

When you look across all AI tools, about half of all employees are leveraging AI in some way. That means in any typical workplace two out of every four people are using AI regularly, even if the company does not officially sanction any tools. 

The value is clear. A Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study found that over half of frequent AI users save at least three to four hours of work each week. Harvard and MIT found that knowledge workers using generative AI produce work that is up to forty percent higher in quality compared to those who do not use AI. What is the real difference? The 95 percent failure rate applies to bigger enterprise projects using AI. Meanwhile, the real opportunity is to start small. Everyday tasks can lead the way to bigger and much more valuable AI automation. Hit me up! What do you see happening at your company? 

See more details of the study here: OpenAI Study 

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