More than four-fifths of IT professionals in Finland said they are concerned about the accuracy of the information provided by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a survey.
The poll was commissioned by global tech firm HP, and received responses from just over 1,000 IT professionals across various sectors in Finland.
It found a quarter of respondents saying they already use AI in their work, although the majority said they do so independently and without the support of their employers.
More than half of the IT professionals said they use AI on a weekly basis, but only slightly more than a third of those said they received training or instruction from their employers about using it. The majority said their AI skills were self-taught.
Many of the respondents said they see AI as a time saving tool that boosts their efficiency and quality of work. At the same time, they said uncertainty about AI's reliability and security was holding back its more widespread use.
Nearly half of the IT professionals said they would like to use AI more in their work than they do.
AI is no longer a promise of the future, but rather "a tool of today", according to HP's country manager in Finland, Vesa Jukonen.
"The employees are already prepared, but management and guidance [about the technology] have not kept up the pace," Jukonen said in a press release.
According to HP, the use of AI in Finland is still superficial, as it is mainly used in text editing, information searches and idea generation. However, there is less use of the tech in analytic and decision making work, it said.
While more than four-fifths of the respondents voiced concern about the reliability of the information provided by AI, around the same proportion said they are also concerned about the IT security risks related with use of the technology.
HP's survey was carried out by research firm Verian in September.
