AI adoption at work is broad but shallow
01-09-2026 01:43 via theregister.com

AI adoption at work is broad but shallow

Economists have taken another stab at assessing the impact of generative AI adoption on different occupations and have found that adoption is broad but not very deep. While generative AI reaches 80 percent of occupations and more than 40 percent of tasks, in most of these occupations fewer than half of workers adopt it. Occupational use is high in professions where you'd expect – in management and professional occupations, particularly those that are related to finance, business, and compu
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