Workers are emerging as the next big AI logjam

So here's a plot twist that only someone who has never met a human being could find surprising: workers are becoming 'the next big AI logjam'. The FT reports that employee adoption and resistance are now the critical bottleneck in AI deployment. Apparently, after two years of C-suite promises that AI would 'augment' and 'empower' everyone, actual human beings have the audacity to view the technology with... skepticism. The gall.

Remember when Pinterest bravely slashed its workforce to pour everything into AI? Well, now we see the other side: the people left behind aren't exactly thrilled to be AI's lab assistants. The FT's piece confirms what anyone who works in an office could have told you for free: employees are not eager to hand their jobs over to a chatbot that occasionally recommends glue on pizza.

The tech industry has spent billions on models and infrastructure, only to discover that the biggest unsolved problem is a tired middle manager who doesn't trust the chatbot's output. The true benchmark for AI adoption isn't passing the Turing test — it's convincing Diane from accounts to stop re-typing everything the model generates. Good luck with that.