New F-Secure survey of US and UK consumers finds many AI users rarely verify answers, even when using it to make high-stakes decisions

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly 90% of AI users say it’s their responsibility to verify the answers AI gives them, but 70% still only check sometimes, rarely, or never do. As people move from asking AI casual questions to trusting it with personal decisions about health, finances, and relationships, F-Secure’s new consumer survey reveals a growing gap between people’s awareness of the risks and how they actually use these tools.

The risks aren’t theoretical; they’re already showing up in how people use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Ironically, the people most exposed to AI’s mistakes are often the ones doing the least to catch them. F-Secure’s survey of 1,500 AI users in the US and UK digs into why (and what it’s costing them). Among the findings:

Nearly half (47.3%) of AI users say they stop questioning an answer if it sounds right. That’s more than twice as common as any other reason given for not verifying a response.One in four (25.2%) have followed AI advice on a major real-life decision. Proof that users aren’t just casually using chatbots for casual questions or hypothetical scenarios.More than one-third (35.3%) have used AI to fact-check AI. Asking another AI chatbot to verify an answer can give people a false sense that they’ve independently checked it, when they’re really just asking AI to check its own work.Frequent AI use is associated with a lower bar for accepting answers. Among people who use AI for many different types of tasks, 59.7% accepted answers without further verification, compared with 28.6% among those who only use AI for low-stakes questions. Non-users want protection from AI-related risks before considering using them. Among people who don’t currently use AI chatbots, 46.1% said detecting AI-generated scams or manipulation would be the feature most likely to change their mind into using it, and 45% say their priority is AI preventing their data from being stored or shared.

The findings are clear: Users don’t really trust AI, but they still regularly use its answers without checking them first – despite saying they’re concerned about inaccuracy. And 83.9% of respondents have multiple concerns about AI, but still use it at least weekly.

“I don’t think the fix is asking people to be more careful. Users already believe checking the accuracy of the content is somewhat their responsibility,” said Amel Bourdocen, Senior User Researcher at F-Secure. “That responsibility sits with the people building these tools, not the people using them. A system that can sound confident regardless of whether it’s right should be the one required to show its uncertainty, not the user.”

Full survey results and methodology are available on the Illuminate Research Hub.

To learn how F-Secure is helping close the AI trust gap, read the announcement on F-Secure Trust.

About F-Secure

F-Secure is a human-first, AI-powered consumer cyber security experience company with 38 years of expertise in tackling digital threats. We help digital service providers turn trust into a high-value growth engine — protecting their customers while enabling them to live their best digital lives in a world of relentless, AI-driven scams. With billions of digital interactions secured each year, tens of millions of consumers protected globally, and over $10bn in partner value created, we deliver proven impact at scale.

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Exclusively Employer-Side Employment Law Firm Celebrates One Year Advising California-based Businesses With Legal Workplace Issues

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EmployLaw Group LLP, a law firm educating California employers and protecting them before, during and after employment disputes, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary of serving clients from Sacramento to San Diego and beyond in a wide range of industries.

One year after launching the exclusively employer-side employment law firm, co-founders Jamie N. Stein and Ryan Haws have built their practice around a simple idea: the lawyer helping an employer prevent tomorrow’s lawsuit should understand what plaintiffs’ lawyers are arguing in today’s courtrooms.

It is a distinction that has become central to the way EmployLaw Group advises its clients.

Stein handles the firm’s litigation practice, defending California employers in individual, class and representative actions. Haws leads the firm’s advice-and-counsel practice, working with businesses on the employment decisions they make every day. The two practices are intentionally connected.

EmployLaw Group educates and counsels employers on employment-related matters and handles a significant number of litigation cases in industries including manufacturing, home health, agricultural, professional services, construction, nonprofits, hospitality, and aerospace. A unique attribute of the firm is its ability to draw on both real-time legal developments and real-world litigation experience when advising employers on day-to-day workplace issues, helping them adopt practices that reduce litigation risk while effectively addressing disputes that have already arisen.

This past year saw the firm add several senior and support staff positions and grow its client base to several hundred companies. Top management is looking forward to further team and client growth, expanding the business into new territories, and finding innovative ways to educate and prepare California employers on current and emerging laws that will affect them. The firm has also opened an office in Thousand Oaks, and is now looking to add associate attorneys as it continues to expand.

Stein, Partner and Co-Founder of EmployLaw Group, said, “Employment advice traditionally begins with what the law says and how courts have interpreted it. That remains essential. But there is another layer of information available to us because we are actively litigating these cases. We are seeing, in real time, the new theories, interpretations and arguments plaintiffs’ attorneys are making before those issues ever become published appellate decisions.”

Those arguments routinely become part of the conversation between Stein and Haws. When a novel theory surfaces in litigation, they consider not only how to defend against it in the pending case, but whether it exposes a potential vulnerability that other employers can address proactively.

That exchange between litigation and counseling reflects the firm’s broader mission: educating and protecting employers before, during and after workplace disputes.

“We don’t have to wait for a court to publish an opinion before asking whether there is a practical lesson our clients can take from an argument being made today,” Stein said. “Not every argument will ultimately succeed. But if we can identify an emerging theory and there is a reasonable way for a client to eliminate or reduce that risk, we want our clients to have that information now.”

For Haws and Stein, education is itself a form of risk management.

EmployLaw Group specializes in wage and hour (W&H) compliance reviews, which evaluate an organization’s adherence to labor laws such as the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) and state regulations covering proper pay calculations (minimum wage, overtime, and break issues); day-to-day employment counseling, workplace investigations, employee classification, harassment and discrimination prevention, supervisor training, employment agreements and policies, and the defense of wrongful termination, retaliation and discrimination claims, as well as wage-and-hour, class and PAGA litigation.

Haws, Co-Founder of EmployLaw Group, said, “California employers want to comply with the law. The difficulty is that knowing the rule is not always enough. Employers also need to understand how that rule is being interpreted, challenged and used in actual claims. Our job is to give clients that context so they can make informed decisions rather than simply react after something has gone wrong.”

That approach appears to be resonating.

For a law firm celebrating only its first anniversary, the growth is meaningful. But Stein and Haws say the numbers are not the part they find most important.

“We built this firm because we wanted to practice law differently,” Stein said. “Ryan and I have very different day-to-day practices, but we approach them with exactly the same objective: to be extraordinarily useful to our clients. That means caring about the outcome, being accessible, understanding the client’s business, and looking beyond the immediate legal question to what will actually protect them.”

Haws agreed.

“Being of service is fundamental to how we practice,” he said. “Our clients know us, they work with us directly, and they know they can call us before a problem becomes a crisis. We want them to understand not only what they should do, but why.”

That philosophy also explains the firm’s emphasis on employer education outside of individual client matters. Stein and Haws regularly speak to business and human resources audiences, including programs for the Employers Advisory Council, Professionals in Human Resources Association and National Human Resources Association, and hold leadership positions in human resources organizations.

As EmployLaw Group enters its second year, its founders expect the team and geographic reach to continue growing. They are actively seeking additional associate attorneys who share the firm’s approach to client service and employer education.

But the underlying strategy is not changing.

“The best litigation lesson is the one we can use to keep another client from having the same litigation,” Stein said. “Every case teaches us something. The value is making sure our clients benefit from it before they ever find themselves in a courtroom.”

 About EmployLaw Group LLP

EmployLaw Group LLP is an exclusively employer-side California employment law firm dedicated to educating and protecting businesses before, during and after employment disputes. The firm advises employers on day-to-day workplace matters, compliance, policies, investigations and training and defends employers in individual, class and representative litigation. EmployLaw Group serves businesses throughout California across a wide range of industries.

For more information, visit https://employlawgroup.com/.

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More than 100,000 Tested and Trusted Recipes from America’s Favorite Food Media Brands at Your Fingertips

Save Recipes from Anywhere So You Never Lose a Recipe Again

NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MyRecipes, a People Inc. brand, announces the launch of its namesake app to make cooking at home better and easier than ever. Available to download now on App Store and Google Play, the app features 100,000+ best-in-class recipes from People Inc.’s popular food brands–Allrecipes, Better Homes & Gardens, EatingWell, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Serious Eats, and Southern Living, among others–and makes it simple to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, and beyond all in one place. The ability to save recipes from anywhere coupled with its vast collection of trusted recipes makes it a one-of-a-kind cooking app.

Created for home cooks of every skill level, the MyRecipes app helps users search, save, organize, and make delicious recipes with ease; get personalized recommendations for what to cook this week; find ideas and inspiration for holiday meals and entertaining; and more. Features of the MyRecipes app:

More than 100K tested and vetted recipes from People Inc. brandsRecipes for every skill level and occasion including: breakfast, lunch, dinner, appetizers, snacks, desserts, cocktails, mocktails, smoothies, holiday meals, and more.Recipes from celebrated chefs such as Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Giada De Laurentiis, and Julia Child, among others.New test-kitchen approved recipes added dailyEditor-curated recipe collections, such as Great Game Day Snacks, Top-Rated High Protein Dinners, Our 30 Best Birthday Cake Recipes, and over 100 moreSave Recipes from Instagram, TikTok and thousands of other food sites with easeClutter-free “cook mode”: the screen stays awake while you cook and you can easily switch between ingredients and instructions with a tap

MyRecipes offers two ways to access the app–a free option that includes 100,000+ trusted recipes at your fingertips, among other features, and a MyRecipes+ paid membership with extra benefits, such as the ability to save and organize recipes from TikTok and Instagram, and get special discounts and offers from culinary and lifestyle brands and retailers such as Glasvin, Misen, and Thermoworks. More about the MyRecipes+ membership offerings here.

In addition to the app, consumers can join the millions of registered MyRecipes users online at MyRecipes.com and check out its social channels on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Facebook.

Kroger is the launch sponsor of the MyRecipes app.

Press contact: Liz Marsh / elizabeth.marsh@people.inc

People Inc. is the largest digital and print publisher in America. More than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take action. People Inc.’s more than 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Food & Wine, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell Health, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. People Inc. is based in New York City and is an operating business of People Incorporated (NASDAQ: PPLI).

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