"Executives "automatically assume AI is going to be the savior," Steve McGarvey, a user experience designer, told the WSJ. He drew on his personal experience of large language models bogging down his work, which focuses on making websites accessible to visitors who are visually impaired. "I can't count the number of times that I've sought a solution for a problem, asked an LLM, and it gave me a solution to an accessibility problem that was completely wrong," McGarvey added."
"But the employees that keep their jobs find themselves being forced to use new and still-experimental AI tools that may not be all that useful for their specific roles, with any complaints they raise falling on deaf ears. Evangelism for the tech runs rampant among leadership at the biggest companies in the world. Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, for example, reportedly told his employees that they'd be " insane " not to use AI to do literally "every task&qu"
Executives report far greater AI time savings than non-management employees. A survey of 5,000 white-collar workers by Section found 40% of non-managers said AI saved them no time in a week, while only 2% reported more than 12 hours saved. Among executives, only 2% reported no time saved and 19% reported over 12 hours saved. Some designers report large language models producing incorrect accessibility solutions. Companies have used AI to justify layoffs and force remaining staff to use experimental tools that may not suit their roles, while leadership evangelizes aggressive AI adoption.
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