Most office workers discovered saying ‘thank you,’ ‘please’ with AI can improve output quality: survey

Nypost · May 14, 2026 · 894 words · By SWNS

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Most office workers discovered saying ‘thank you,’ ‘please’ with AI can improve output quality: survey According to a new survey, 86% of office workers are using “please” and “thank you” with AI — and you may need to, too.

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AI-wielding office workers found two-thirds (64%) believe it’s important to show AI common courtesy, and (27%) say “please” and “thank you” every single time they use it.

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Commissioned by TripleTen and conducted by Talker Research, the study found one respondent believes courtesy is key because, “AI is more likely to respond in the correct way when you use words such as ‘please.’ Even if your prompt is not that great.” Others…

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Claim 1: “Sixty percent of respondents identified as being in upper leadership positions, including founders, executives, C-suites, and management”

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Claim 2: “86% of office workers are using “please” and “thank you” with AI”

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The provided web search results discuss AI politeness in general terms and mention a different statistic (83% encouraged by leaders), but none of the provided evidence confirms the specific figure of 86% of office workers using 'please' and 'thank you'.

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web search NEUTRAL — The 'please' and 'thank you' aren't superstitions — they're what it looks like when someone has noticed the model is responding to them, not just executing." The survey found 83% of office workers hav…
https://talker.news/2026/05/14/why-majority-of-office-worker…

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web search NEUTRAL — Canadians, known for their politeness, match the global average, suggesting that the stereotype might apply more to human interactions than AI interactions. Data chart showing the global percentage of…
https://reeluno.com/americans-rank-near-the-bottom-in-ai-pol…

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web search NEUTRAL — When you use etiquette, you set the tone. Here’s why “please and thank you” might not just be so silly after all. Image created by the author with Midjourney.Incorporating polite language like “please…
https://readmedium.com/do-you-say-please-and-thank-you-to-ar…

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Claim 3: “Commissioned by TripleTen and conducted by Talker Research”

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The evidence provided lists general survey tools (Microsoft Forms, SurveyMonkey) and irrelevant Wikipedia entries for Metal Gear and Fast Five. There is no mention of TripleTen or Talker Research.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Metal Gear franchise, created by Hideo Kojima and featuring character and mecha designs by Yoji Shinkawa, features a large cast of characters, several of whom are soldiers with supernatural powers…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_the_Metal_Gear_s…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fast Five (also known as Fast & Furious 5) is a 2011 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast & Furious (2009) and the fifth installment in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article shows a list of characters from The Transformers television series that aired during the debut of the American and Japanese Transformers media franchise from 1984 to 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Transformers_chara…

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Claim 4: “The survey found 83% of office workers have been encouraged to use AI at work by their leadership”

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Claim 5: “leaders believe their employees will start treating AI like human co-workers within six years”

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Claim 6: “73% see a correlation between employees using AI and their productivity levels, with 92% of them seeing employees increase their productivity when using AI”

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Claim 7: “only a quarter give their AI a gender — 14% prefer female, 11% prefer male”

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Claim 8: “54% of leadership sees a correlation between employees using AI and staff morale, with 83% seeing an increase in morale the more AI is used”

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Claim 9: “founders are most likely to assign AI a feminine gender (23%), compared to other job positions”

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Claim 10: “(27%) say “please” and “thank you” every single time they use it”

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The evidence provided consists of Wikipedia entries for the number 27 and the '27 Club', which are completely irrelevant to the claim regarding AI usage statistics.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scale AI, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence infrastructure and software company based in San Francisco, California. Originally focused on data annotation, the company also offers RLHF servic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_AI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An artificial intelligence safety institute is a type of state-backed organization aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, also called frontier AI mod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_safety…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shield AI, Inc. is an American aerospace and defense technology company based in San Diego, California, United States. It develops artificial intelligence-powered fighter pilots, drones, and technolo…
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Claim 11: “87% of those who treat AI like any other human being believe it can function as an actual personal assistant to them”

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The evidence mentions GenZ connections with chatbots and X.ai's valuation, but does not corroborate the 87% statistic regarding AI as a personal assistant for those who treat it as human.

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web search NEUTRAL — A survey found that 83 per cent of GenZ respondents believe they could develop a meaningful connection with a chatbot.The app allows users to interact with customisable AI-powered avatars, offering wh…
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/genz-believes-they-could-mar…

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web search NEUTRAL — X.ai. has a valuation of $40 million, having raised just over $11 million in funding to date. Mortensen says there are "thousands" of high profile CEOs like Jones in the system, but that X.ai.'s plan …
https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-ingram-personal-assistan…

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web search NEUTRAL — Popular AI Function Statistics. AI Challenges & Predictions. Key Takeaways.As well as tracking more advanced health data than ever, smartwatches use AI to offer training hints and tips, predict blood …
https://explodingtopics.com/blog/ai-statistics

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Claim 12: “C-Suite feels “much further ahead” than their co-workers when using AI (42%, compared to 12% of staff)”

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Claim 13: “C-Suites are more willing to embrace AI (93%) than staff level employees (70%)”

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Claim 14: “believe showing courtesy to AI is important (78%) more than their staff does (46%)”

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Claim 15: “three in four of those who treat AI like humans also like to keep their chatbots gender-neutral”

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The evidence discusses gender bias in chatbot design and preferences in India, but does not confirm the 'three in four' (75%) statistic for those who treat AI as humans.

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web search NEUTRAL — Since chatbots can also be gendered in their design, we used an automated gender analysis approach to investigate three gender-specific cues in the design of 1,375 chatbots listed on the platform chat…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337403025_Gender_Bi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Gendered Innovations: 1. Combatting the Harassment of Conversational AI Feminized chatbots are often harassed. Pushing back on harassment presents an opportunity for AI to help stop gender and sexual …
https://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies/virtua…

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web search NEUTRAL — Their level of frustration with today’s bots is striking,” General Manager at Amdocs Gary Miles said in a statement on Wednesday. For the study, over 1,022 female and male consumers between the ages o…
https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/more-than-40-pe…

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Claim 16: “Most of those who treat AI as a tool (91%) believe it’s important they remain objective and direct with the technology”

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The evidence provided discusses managers using AI and general AI tool usage, but does not mention the 91% statistic regarding objectivity and directness.

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web search NEUTRAL — At first, I thought AI was just “smart. Like you could type anything and get gold instantly. But I quickly learned something important: Bad question → bad result Good question → extremely powerful res…
https://medium.com/@jamesmayokun/i-tried-using-ai-tools-for-…

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web search NEUTRAL — 1000 American respondents.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136466132…

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web search NEUTRAL — About 46% of respondents using AI in people management say they were tasked with evaluating whether AI could replace a position. Among those managers, 57% determined AI could replace the position and …
https://www.resumebuilder.com/half-of-managers-use-ai-to-det…

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Claim 17: “Staff-level workers are the least likely to have been fully encouraged by employers (27%)”

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Claim 18: “The poll of 2,000 U.S. AI-wielding office workers found two-thirds (64%) believe it’s important to show AI common courtesy”

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The evidence provided consists of Wikipedia entries for the number 64 and the Nintendo 64, which are irrelevant to the claim about a poll of 2,000 U.S. office workers.

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web search NEUTRAL — 64 is a power of two, an interprime [1], a superperfect number [2], an Erdős–Woods number [3], a square and a cube. In four dimensions, there are 64 convex uniform polychora aside from two infinite fa…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/64_(number)

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web search NEUTRAL — Nintendo 64, a 1996 video game console 64, a Russian chess magazine Sixty-four (ship), a type of sailing warship Crayola 64 pack 64 Zoo Lane, a British animated children's TV series Porsche 64, a race…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/64

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web search NEUTRAL — The Nintendo 64[a] (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, in North America on September 29, 1996, and in Europe and Australia…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64

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Claim 19: “41% find it easier to address AI like a tool, while 23% find it easier to address it like they would any other human being”

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The evidence provided discusses AI tools and humanization in general, but does not contain the specific percentages (41% and 23%) mentioned in the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .ai is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is administered by the government of Anguilla. It is a popular domain hack wit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI commonly refers to artificial intelligence, which is intelligence demonstrated by machines. Ai, ai, a.i, A.I or AI may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai

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Claim 20: “Talker Research surveyed 2,000 American office workers who have used AI in the last 2 years who have access to the internet; the survey was commissioned by TripleTen and administered and conducted online by Talker Research between Mar. 16 and Mar. 30, 2026”

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Claim 21: “Executives polled were twice as likely to consider AI a coworker (81%), compared to their staff (39%)”

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Claim 22: “Nearly two-thirds (64%) would likely consider AI to be a coworker someday, if it could ever replicate the qualities of their actual human coworkers”

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Claim 23: “find AI “very enjoyable” to use more frequently than staff (71%, compared to 33%)”

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