The artificial intelligence craze faces a significant gender gap, with more men showing enthusiasm about the technology, and women expressing greater skepticism. That’s according to CNBC’s 5th annual SurveyMonkey Women at Work survey.
Some 69% of men polled say that AI is a “valuable assistant and collaborator,” while just 61% of women agreed with that statement. Half of women in the survey view AI with suspicion and say that “using AI at work feels like cheating.” Only 43% of men agree.
The survey, conducted from Feb. 10 through Feb. 16, with participation from 6,330 people, landed just over three years after the generative AI boom took off with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Since then, chatbots have spread rapidly and were followed by other services like AI-generated photo and video services, coding agents and all sorts of tools that now make it easy to create apps with just a few text prompts and mouse clicks.
Wall Street is betting that AI will displace much of the enterprise software stack, which explains why software stocks have taken a beating over the past year.
Within the workplace, men use AI more frequently than women. Almost two-thirds (64%) of women say they never use AI at work, compared to 55% of men. And when it comes to AI power users, they’re also more likely to be men, with 14% saying they use AI “multiple times a day,” compared to 9% for women.
