52%
52% of US employees used AI at work at least a few times a year in May 2026, so 48% didn't; in May 2023 it was 21% and 79%.
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Who uses AI at work, who doesn't, and how the groups are changing.
Every survey asks its own question of its own people, so the shares differ. The Census Bureau asks the broadest question and finds the highest US share.
52%
52% of US employees used AI at work at least a few times a year in May 2026, so 48% didn't; in May 2023 it was 21% and 79%.
56%
In March 2026, 56% of US workers said they had used AI on the job for at least one of 11 tasks; 37% had used it to search for information, 32% to write and 32% to generate ideas. Among AI users at work, 30% of men and 17% of women used it every day last week.
The question counts AI broadly and names no time period.
40.5%
45.2% of employed US adults used generative AI for their job in Q2 2026, falling to 40.5% in Q3 2026, the series' largest one-wave drop.
The latest drop is a single reading until the next wave.
35.9%
In the year to March 2026, 35.9% of Canadian workers used generative AI in their main job; of these users, 31.4% used it daily and 11.6% for most or almost all tasks. Among non-users, 56% said it doesn't apply to their work and 5% cited company policy.
Gallup's daily users have grown while its occasional users held steady. The St. Louis Fed's every-workday measure hasn't risen; the two trackers ask different questions of different people. At the same point after launch, AI at work has spread faster than the PC did.
15%
Daily AI use at work rose from 4% of US employees in May 2023 to 15% in May 2026, Gallup's latest wave with published methods.
11.5%
The St. Louis Fed's every-workday measure shows daily generative-AI use flat at 9% to 14% of employed adults since Q3 2024 (12.1% then, 11.5% in Q3 2026), while Gallup's daily use rose from 4% to 15%.
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29%
Daily users rose from 19% of US workplace AI users in May 2023 to 29% in May 2026.
Our calculation from Gallup's published shares; Gallup doesn't publish this share of users.
20% to 22%
Occasional AI users (a few times a month or year) have held at 20% to 22% of US employees since May 2025, while daily use kept rising.
Computed from Gallup's published shares.
37.4%
Three years after ChatGPT, 37.4% of employed US adults used generative AI for work, against 25.1% using a PC at work in 1984, three years after the IBM PC.
Each source draws the line in its own place: the top of a vendor's usage logs, a set of habits people report, or how much of their work people do with AI.
6x
Workers at the 95th percentile of ChatGPT Enterprise use send 6 times the median worker's messages, and 17 times as many coding messages.
Disclosure: OpenAI's own usage data about its own product.
16%
Microsoft's Frontier Professionals are 16% of the AI users it surveyed (3,233 of 20,000).
Disclosure: Microsoft sells the AI tools its survey asks about.
2%
About 2% of US workers say they do all or most of their work with AI, in both October 2024 and September 2025.
Who was asked: US workers: adults employed full or part time with one job or a primary job
Gallup counts employees who don't use AI at work. Pew counts adults who never use chatbots anywhere. The two groups overlap but aren't the same.
51%
51% of US adults never use AI chatbots, and 67% of them say they are not likely to start in the next 12 months (40% not at all likely).
60%
Among US adults who never use chatbots, lack of interest is a major reason for 60%, concern about personal information for 54% and distrust of accuracy for 45%; counting minor reasons too, the shares are 83%, 79% and 76%.
9%
Among non-users in organizations that make AI available, 46% say they prefer to keep doing their work the way they do it now, 43% say they are ethically opposed to using AI, 43% are concerned about data privacy, security or compliance, and only 9% say they don't have access to AI in their role. More than one reason was allowed.
Use rises with income, and it's far higher in jobs that could be done remotely than in on-site and front-line jobs.
39%
In November 2025, 39% of employed US adults were using AI tools at work or had in the past year, from 15.9% of those earning under $50,000 to 66.3% of those over $200,000.
66%
66% of US employees in remote-capable jobs use AI (19% daily), against 32% in jobs that can't be done remotely (7% daily).
Gallup's release doesn't name the survey wave; the date shown is inferred.
9%
Production and front-line workers' frequent AI use was 11% in 2023 and 9% in 2025, while 27% of white-collar employees used AI frequently in 2025.
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