The Jobs and Skills Australia report, Our Gen AI Transition: Implications for Work and Skills, is a serious piece of work, and its findings on covert use deserve employers’ attention. Drawing on a range of studies, it found that roughly a quarter of workers are using Gen AI tools without their employer knowing or approving. The detail is worth dwelling on. The report does not paint shadow users as a workforce of rule-breakers. Some of them are, in its words, “hidden leaders”