[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-gen-z-workers-hide-ai-use-more-than-older-peers-uk-study-finds":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},13092,"gen-z-workers-hide-ai-use-more-than-older-peers-uk-study-finds","Gen Z Workers Hide AI Use More Than Older Peers, UK Study Finds","An Imperial College London study of UK workers finds 29% of Gen Z use AI without employer knowledge, while 35% say it feels dishonest.","Nearly 3 in 10 Gen Z workers in the UK use AI at work without their employer knowing, and 35% of the group say using it makes them feel dishonest.\n\nThe figures come from research by Imperial Lifelong Learning, a new division of Imperial College London. It covered five industries: engineering, financial services, technology, energy and healthcare. Of the Gen Z workers, 29% use AI without their employer's knowledge, and 26% think colleagues or managers would be disappointed to learn of it.\n\nThe research describes that 29% as 11% more than the Millennial cohort and more than double the Gen X figure. The material does not say whether the 11% is percentage points or a relative difference, and it does not give the Millennial number, so the size of the generational gap is unclear. Millennials are the heaviest day-to-day AI users, and they share the worry about colleagues' opinions. Separately, 59% of all workers believe their industry has a skills gap.\n\nThis is \"shadow AI\": chatbots used without employer approval. It is the latest version of an old IT problem, staff adopting tools before the company has decided what it thinks of them. The difference is that chatbots have been widely available since 2022, yet some organizations still have no active AI policy. Where there is no policy, keeping quiet is a reasonable response.\n\nHeather Haseley, Chief Lifelong Learning Officer at Imperial Lifelong Learning, pointed to education as a source of the confusion. Industry leaders told the researchers about a disconnect between attitudes in workplaces and in schools, \"where young learners may be penalised for using AI, creating an uncertainty that follows them into work.\" A learning division naturally lands on education as the fix, but the mechanism is plausible: someone taught that AI use is cheating will not stop feeling that way on a first day with no rules.\n\nThe open question is whether guidance alone would shrink the 29%. 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