The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis What 1,250 Professionals Say About Working With AI
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Dec 5, 2025 A recent survey of 1,250 professionals reveals a complex mix of optimism and anxiety regarding AI's impact on their jobs. Creatives feel squeezed while scientists seek reliable AI partners. Many professionals are eager to offload routine tasks but are protective of their core identities. The discussion also covers AI-driven interviews and its potential to reshape research. Notable headlines include advances from Gemini 3, Replit's enterprise deal with Google, and Meta's strategic shift from the metaverse to AI innovations.
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AI-Scaled Interviews Reveal Real Use
- Anthropic used AI to run 1,250 short interviews, combining scale and contextual depth to reveal how professionals actually use AI.
- This method lets researchers collect large qualitative datasets and analyze them rapidly for both patterns and explanations.
Scale Interviews To Track Change
- Use voice AI and scaled interviews to avoid the survey-versus-interview tradeoff and collect richer data at scale.
- Design recurring studies to track changing sentiment and inform policymaking and upskilling programs.
Optimism Coupled With Role Anxiety
- Professionals are generally optimistic about AI's role but worried about specific disruptions like career adaptation and creative identity loss.
- Workers want routine tasks automated while keeping the elements that define their professional identity.