Thomson Reuters Report Finds AI Adoption Outpaces AI Value Among Professionals, Warns of Talent and Client Costs
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Thomson Reuters' Future of Professionals Report 2026 reveals a growing gap between AI adoption and realized value among professionals in law, tax, audit, accounting, and compliance. While most professionals now use AI at work, few are deriving significant value from it. The report warns that this shortfall is manifesting in tangible costs such as lost clients, departing talent, and delayed development of independent professional judgment. Based on a survey of 1,816 professionals, the fourth annual edition highlights a critical challenge facing knowledge industries as they navigate AI integration.
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The cost of that shortfall is starting to show up in lost clients, departing talent, and a generation of professionals who may take longer to develop the independent judgment expected of them
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