At the conference of the world’s largest HR professional association, AI governance was a big concern, according to an attendee
While artificial intelligence (AI) now shapes hiring, performance reviews and workforce planning inside many organizations, research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world's largest HR professional association, suggests that fewer than half of all organizations have any AI policy in place.
The “guardrails-be-gone” finding comes from SHRM’s survey and report titled Navigating AI in the Workplace: 2026, which surveyed nearly 5,900 U.S. employees The report was a centerpiece unveiling at SHRM’s recent annual conference in Orlando, Fla.
The report finds that where a workplace AI policy exists, nearly one-third (30 per cent) of employees have breached it, and among those, another 31 per cent said they would contravene it again in an effort to save time. Results suggest that the gap between adoption and governance is not shrinking. It is widening.
Executives and management have embraced AI well ahead of the people who use it every day, presenting a gap.
According to the report, 63 per cent of employees say their chief executive officer shows real interest in AI, and 60 per cent of directors now raise it in performance conversations. Yet fewer than half of employees use AI in their own work. Enthusiasm at the top has not yet translated into engagement on the ground.
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