{
  "id": 3260496,
  "title": "The AI adoption phase is over",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/the-ai-adoption-phase-is-over",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-25T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91594145/the-ai-adoption-phase-is-over"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The AI conversation in boardrooms has shifted from adoption to verification and trust. A new survey of 1,500 Americans found that 37% of respondents cited knowing which sources to trust as the hardest part of research, twice as hard as the next biggest challenge. Verification has become a standard workflow, with 66% of respondents fact-checking AI results every time they use them and 47% saying validation is critical even when busy. Business professionals are the most active AI users, with 55% using AI tools daily and 60% making time to validate. Human-authored expert documents earned a higher trust score than AI-generated summaries alone, with 76% of respondents citing author expertise and citations as highly important factors in trust. Leaders must now focus on building verification into workflows, rewarding accuracy and sourcing, and investing in subject-matter experts, primary documents, and institutional knowledge to maintain trust in AI's output. The competitive advantage will lie in the leadership's ability to build trust as a system and integrate it into workflows, ultimately leading to success.",
  "summary": "For two years, the AI conversation in every boardroom has been about adoption: who’s using it, how much, how fast. That conversation is over. Adoption happened. What should keep leaders up at night now is harder to see on a dashboard: What are people doing after adoption? We recently conducted our inaugural Scribd Understanding Index , surveying 1,500 Americans about how they build knowledge…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "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."
}