Are your co-workers hiding their AI skills from you to protect their edge? New report claims your colleagues could be secret AI whizzkids, but you'd never know
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If a third of AI users are hoarding prompts to protect their status, your org has turned AI into a zero-sum political asset instead of shared leverage. This week, make AI workflows and prompt libraries explicit team artifacts—otherwise your best automation stays trapped in individual silos.
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