AI Can Design the Slides, But It Can't Fix Stage Fright: 3 in 4 Workers Get Anxious Presenting, Canva Study
New
research from Canva, the world’s leading
visual communication platform, reveals an emerging paradox at the heart of one
of work’s age-old skills: even as AI makes presentations easier to create than
ever, nearly three in four professionals (74%) still feel anxious about
presenting.
Few things
are as entrenched as presentations, and decade after decade, they’ve defined
how we communicate to clients, teammates, leadership, and beyond. Now, AI is
changing them by making them faster and easier to create than ever. Nine in 10
(91%) workers use AI monthly to build slides, mainly for design (57%),
brainstorming (56%) and drafting content (49%). 48% say it saves them more than
an hour per presentation.
As AI use grows, more than 100 million people create presentations on Canva every month, and it is one of the top use cases for the company’s ChatGPT and Claude integrations, giving Canva a unique view into what comes next. But while the tech is changing fast, one thing remains the same: presenting with confidence is still distinctly human.
“It may be easier to whip up a presentation these days, but the part that matters most isn’t the slides. It still takes a person’s ability to persuade, teach, inspire, or move someone else to act. More than ever, the slides are there to support the presenter, not the other way around,” said, Alli McKee, Head of Visual Suite, Canva.
Canva’s new global study, The
Presentation Paradox, explores how AI presentation tools are changing the
way we work, finding that as slide creation gets easier with AI, presenting
with confidence is becoming more important for climbing the career ladder. More
than three in four professionals (77%) say presentation confidence has
contributed to career growth in the past year, with 68% linking it to a
promotion or pay rise.
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