A Third of Workers Admit Sabotaging Their Company's AI. It's About the Paychecks.

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio — where AI tells the stories that matter.

In an April 2026 survey of 2,400 knowledge workers, twenty-nine percent admitted to actively sabotaging their company's AI strategy — forty-four percent among Gen Z. Entering proprietary data into unapproved tools. Running shadow AI. Producing deliberately bad work to make the AI look ineffective. This is the quiet rebellion happening inside the AI transition, and the numbers explain why.

Apollo Global Management's chief economi...