Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

Why Senior People Are the WORST at Adopting AI

23 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker argues that senior professionals are the worst adopters of AI because they already possess high standards and refined taste. When they compare AI‑generated output to their own expectations, they deem it "not good enough," which leads them to reject AI until it reaches a level that may already be too late for practical adoption. The speaker illustrates this bias by describing a personal experiment where they sent colleagues pieces written by themselves and pieces written by AI as a covert Turing test. Although the speaker initially thought the AI‑written content was poor, they later realized the negative judgment stemmed from a self‑preservation instinct—wanting the AI output to fail so their own expertise remained valued.

The senior people are like the worst adopters of AI because they're already pretty good. They already have great taste. So like they look at AI output and they go, it's not good enough yet. But by the time it is good enough, it might be too late, right? So I used to send people things that I had written and then I'd send other people things that AI had written, like a Turing test to see if they could tell it was AI or not. I thought the AI-written ones were bad, but I think it was just like self-preservation because I was like, I wanted them to be bad.