What percentage of workers can accurately identify AI content?

A new report from Resume Now surveyed 1,000 U.S. workers and found that nearly half were unable to distinguish human work from AI work. The participants were given two nearly identical workplace messages and asked to determine which had been written by AI — 48 percent chose the human version while 52 percent picked the AI one. That’s after 74 percent answered that they were confident they could identify AI content.

Misidentification is apparently already happening in the workplace, with 66 percent of respondents reporting that they have mistaken AI content for human work. Sixty-five percent also said that if they misidentified AI content, it would reduce their confidence in their ability to do so in the future. Nearly half, 49 percent, said they encounter AI content at work at least once a week, and 42 percent said they assume AI is involved at some level in even basic workplace communication. And 56 percent answered that their trust in a co-worker would decrease if that person used AI in their communications without disclosing it.