Nearly half of adults would hide AI use in their work, even though most say others should not

TL;DRSurvey of 7,200 adults finds 46% would hide AI use in their work while 54% say others should disclose it

Nearly half of adults surveyed would publish AI-generated work without disclosing it, even though a majority believe others should do exactly that. The contradiction sits at the centre of a new survey from Use.AI, an AI aggregation platform that polled 7,200 adults across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. The results, published on July 30, suggest that attitudes toward AI authorship are splitting faster than workplace norms can keep up.

Forty-six percent of respondents said they would not reveal that AI played a role in work presented under their own name. Yet 54 percent said other people should disclose when they use AI for equivalent tasks. The gap between what people expect of others and what they practise themselves mirrors a pattern researchers have been documenting for months.

The survey also explored when people feel entitled to call AI output their own. Sixty-nine percent said the work belongs to them if they supplied the instructions and approved the final version, while 74 percent felt the same after revising AI-generated material. Seventy-one percent said taking responsibility for accuracy was enough to claim authorship.