More than a third of people who use AI at work say checking its output has taken longer than doing the task themselves would have. In a survey of 8,316 adults who use AI, published Oct. 8 by AI assistant company Use.AI , 39% said checking AI-assisted material had taken longer than completing the underlying work on their own, and 41% said they now spend more time reviewing, filtering or verifying content than before AI entered their workflow.

The survey covered AI users in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, the European Union and Latin America, and TechRadar reported the findings on Monday, Oct. 19. The upside is real: 62% of respondents said AI had made it easier to produce work they previously would not have considered worth doing, including internal memos, presentations and code.

The cost lands on the person who receives the work

Much of the trouble shows up after a document changes hands. Thirty-four percent of respondents admitted forwarding AI-assisted work without fully reading it.…