Many managers say they trust AI agents more than junior workers (www.techradar.com)

A new SnapLogic survey finds AI is now mainstream at work — 81% of employees use AI tools and 57% regularly rely on AI agents to save time — but perceptions and readiness vary sharply. Many managers expect they’ll be managing AI agents rather than people (52%), and 61% think managing agents will be easier than managing humans; nearly half of workers (46%) also believe they could be managed by an AI agent in the future. At the same time, workers report anxiety about being seen as lazy or untrustworthy when using AI (43%) and feeling judged (24%), even as most say AI delivers comparable quality to human work. For the AI/ML community this highlights both opportunity and risk: widespread agent adoption could reshape workflows and supervisory roles, but a major training and trust gap threatens safe, effective deployment. Only 36% of organizations offer formal AI training and 54% of users are self-taught; managers report far higher confidence (70% very confident) than non-managers (33%). That disparity underscores the need for robust governance, explainability, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop controls, and targeted upskilling to ensure AI augments rather than erodes workforce capability and trust.