Frequent AI use, defined as daily or weekly use, is not yet the norm across the U.S. workforce, though its adoption has increased sharply in the past three years. In the AJQS data collected January-March 2026, 28% of employees reported using AI at least weekly, while 54% said they had not used AI in their role. Differences in use reflect, in part, the nature of people’s jobs: Not all roles involve regular access to digital devices or have obvious opportunities for employees to use AI directly.
Roughly half of employees in the professional and business services, financial activities and information/media industries regularly use AI. Meanwhile, healthcare support, manufacturing production and retail sales employees have low levels of usage, with 70% to more than 80% never using AI in their role.
Regular AI use is more common among employees with higher levels of education and those in management positions. College graduates are more than twice as likely as those without a college degree to say they use AI on a daily or weekly basis (40% vs. 17%, respectively). In addition, 37% of managers versus 25% of individual contributors are regular AI users.
Younger workers, who have grown up with the latest technologies, are not among the most frequent users of AI at work (about one in five use it weekly or more). Yet among AI users, employees aged 18 to 24 are the most likely to say AI has led their employer to ask them to take on more responsibility, at 38%, compared with 31% or less in every other age group.
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