The more famous people tell me to use AI, the less I want to — it turns out I'm not alone
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AI adoption has a cultural ceiling as well as a technical one—over-marketing from high-status voices is triggering resistance, not pull. Operators should segment by trust and workflow, not just job title, and assume a non-trivial share of users will need quiet, utility-first onboarding rather than evangelism.
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