IBM study finds 60% of employees fear AI erodes critical-thinking skills - IBM News | RalliesIBM study finds 60% of employees fear AI erodes critical-thinking skills
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IBM• IBM workforce study flags widening AI skills gap
- IBM workforce study flagged a widening gap between AI-era skills CHROs prioritize versus employees’ own priorities.
- 71% of CHROs ranked supervising, validating, overriding AI outputs as most essential; 29% of employees ranked judgment as important.
- 60% of employees worried AI is eroding skills; critical thinking most often cited as declining.
- Workflow redesign tied to measurable outcomes: human-led, AI-assisted, AI-executed clarity linked to 18% risk reduction, 20% quality improvement.
- Governance remained a constraint: 46% of organizations did not involve the CHRO when defining AI strategy.
