CEOs are mandating that employees use AI. They’re hardly using it themselves

Chief executives are relying on a combination of carrots and sticks to encourage employees to use artificial intelligence, a technology leaders expect to transform business, from the making of goods, to the delivery of services, to the number of humans they employ. 

But are they using it themselves? Not as much as you might expect. Some CEOs and other corporate executives are spending less time with the technology than their employees, and more than a quarter of them aren’t using it at all, according to new data. 

The gap risks deepening the divide between workers and leaders over how—and how much—AI will boost productivity and alter future employment.

On the carrot side, bosses are incentivizing workers to adopt and experiment with AI by handing out cash bonuses and awarding merch to those who comply. More stick-like tactics to spur AI adoption include tracking workers’ AI usage and factoring AI fluency and enthusiasm for the technology into performance reviews. 

But behind the doors of the C-suite, the CEOs and executive teams imposing those........

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