As the artificial intelligence (AI) boom sweeps into the business world, employees are increasingly concerned about ethics questions and data privacy, a new Deloitte survey found, leading them to increasingly lose trust in their organizations.
More than half of the 1,800 business and technical professionals Deloitte surveyed around the globe said AI presents the most severe ethical risk among emerging technologies, significantly higher than robotics, quantum computing, cryptocurrency, or autonomous vehicles. Last year, 57 percent of respondents had expressed similar sentiments, slightly more than this year’s 54 percent but still higher than 2022’s 41 percent. At the same time, 46 percent of respondents said AI would drive the most social good, up from 39 percent last year and 33 percent the year before.
