Overview
- 45% of U.S. workers now use AI a few times a year or more in Q3 2025, a rise of more than 20 percentage points from the same period in 2024.
- 23% report using AI at least weekly and about 10% use it daily, signaling substantial growth without everyday ubiquity.
- Regular use is higher in tech (50%), finance (33%), and professional services (30%) than in retail and manufacturing (18% each) or healthcare (21%).
- Chatbots are the leading interface, used by roughly six in ten AI adopters, and higher-ranking employees are more likely to be users.
- Workers most often use AI to consolidate information (42%), generate ideas (41%), learn new topics (36%), automate basic tasks (34%), and identify problems (20%), with many still worrying about job losses.