Firms Back Off Mandating AI Use

Corporate experiments to measure and require employee AI use can produce perverse incentives — employees may feel pressured to use tools for their own sake rather than to improve outcomes. Companies may therefore roll back explicit AI‑use metrics while still automating contractor roles and running internal 'vibe‑coding' experiments. — This pattern highlights a governance question: should firms evaluate workers by tool use or by outcomes, and how should policy protect workers from coerced AI adoption and contractor displacement?