# One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/one-in-five-us-workers-now-delegates-tasks-to-ai-instead-of-colleagues-survey-finds/>
> Published: 2026-08-16 05:00:00+00:00

A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing.

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