{
  "title": "AI on the job: does mentioning AI adequately inform the recipient?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-mentionner-ia-suffit-il-a-informer-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-04-12",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Disclosing AI use appears to meet a need for transparency. But what does that disclosure actually help the recipient understand?",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "AI on the Job",
  "place": {
    "name": "Bern",
    "region": "Berne",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "George Akerlof (1970, The Quarterly Journal of Economics) formalises a problem of information asymmetry: when quality is difficult to observe, market exchange can deteriorate, including for high-quality offerings."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A disclosure is not necessarily an informative signal",
      "point": "Michael Spence (1973, The Quarterly Journal of Economics) shows, in a labour-market model, how an observable signal can convey information about a characteristic that cannot be observed directly."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that an AI disclosure is useless unless it guarantees quality; that would confuse transparency about the process with assurance about the outcome."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What these studies cannot establish",
      "point": "Both articles are theoretical contributions to economics, not experiments on how people receive AI-assisted messages."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Berne",
      "point": "As part of SHR’s “AI on the job” programme, an exercise in Berne could compare two versions of a fictional message: one simply disclosing AI use, the other also specifying its role, the human checks actually performed and the service to contact."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Akerlof",
      "year": "1970",
      "source": "The Quarterly Journal of Economics"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Spence",
      "year": "1973",
      "source": "The Quarterly Journal of Economics"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 444,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-04-12-en.jpg?v=4",
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-mentionner-ia-suffit-il-a-informer-en",
    "de": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-mentionner-ia-suffit-il-a-informer-de",
    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/ia-on-the-job-mentionner-ia-suffit-il-a-informer-it"
  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/ia-on-the-job/berne",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/berne",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}