{
  "id": 12200856,
  "title": "Are your co-workers hiding their AI skills from you to protect their edge? New report claims your colleagues could be secret AI whizzkids, but you'd never know",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/are-your-co-workers-hiding-their-ai-skills-from-you-to-protect-their",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-05T17:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/are-your-co-workers-hiding-their-ai-skills-from-you-to-protect-their-edge-new-report-claims-your-colleagues-could-be-secret-ai-whizzkids-but-youd-never-know"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A recent survey reveals that 38% of employees who often use artificial intelligence keep their AI prompts hidden from others, aiming to gain a competitive edge in their profession. Additionally, 21% of these workers have concealed their use of AI from their managers to present themselves as more efficient.\n\nThe survey of 13,276 adults working in organizations across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, the EU, and Latin America also found that 62% of AI users believe possessing superior AI skills provides them with an advantage. Moreover, 44% of these respondents did not want their colleagues to acquire the same productivity boost, while 31% felt they themselves had invested significant time and effort into developing the prompt, thus avoiding sharing their advantage.\n\nIhor Herasymov, Co-Founder & CEO of Use.AI, believes this development of AI skills into a personal advantage is causing tension within the workplace. He suggests that companies should rethink how they reward individuals who convert their private know-how into shared capability, as employees will quickly notice that openness can enhance the organization while simultaneously weakening an individual's position. In light of these findings, companies may need to adapt their performance metrics to accommodate this growing secretive culture surrounding AI prompts.",
  "summary": "Over a third of workplace AI users are keeping “valuable” prompts to themselves in the belief that sharing it will reduce their perceived importance to the department or company",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}