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title: "Want employees to adopt AI? Stop selling it as a productivity tool — Marsanne Studio AI watch"
description: "How managers introduce and support AI determines whether employees accept or reject it."
url: "https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch/want-employees-to-adopt-ai-stop-selling-it-as-a-productivity-937071/"
lang: "en"
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Analysis · 7 October 2026

# Want employees to adopt AI? Stop selling it as a productivity tool

**Publication**

Stanford HAI (United States)

**Author**

Unsigned

**Published on**

7 October 2026 · read in the publisher's feed

## Summary

The article looks at how managers introduce and support AI among their employees, and explains that this approach would determine whether staff engage with the technology or resist it.

Summary based on the article's title and standfirst, as the text is not accessible.

[Read the article on Stanford HAI →](https://hai.stanford.edu/news/want-employees-to-embrace-ai-stop-selling-it-as-a-productivity-tool)

## Classification

**Country**

Worldwide scope

**Company size**

All sizes

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Keywords**

AI adoption, management, employee resistance, productivity, change management

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Stanford HAI. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.