“How'd you do it so fast?”

I use ChatGPT to do half my job and I haven't told my manager.

What's really going on

You're far from alone. Surveys put the share of workers using AI at work without telling their boss somewhere between two-thirds and over 70%. The top reasons: fear of getting more work piled on, fear of looking less capable, and simply never being asked.
The real risk isn't using AI. It's what you paste into it. Personal AI accounts (your own ChatGPT login, not a company-managed one) send your input to outside servers your employer doesn't control, and free or personal tiers may keep or train on your prompts. Pasting client names, contracts, financials or internal data into a personal account is a data-handling problem whether or not anyone finds out.
There's a quality angle too. If AI produces final work that nobody reviews, any mistake (a wrong number, an invented detail, bad judgment on something sensitive) is yours alone when it surfaces, with no "the team knew and agreed to the process" to fall back on.

What to say

To your manager, telling them first

"Something I've been meaning to mention: I use ChatGPT for [specific tasks, like first drafts, summaries, research]. It's made me a lot faster, and I still review everything before it goes out. Do we have an approved tool I should be using for that? I'd rather do it the right way."

Change the words so they sound like you, but keep the tone.

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