Provides survey numbers on AI work usage, task replacement and creation, and paid versus free tiers, which show how mainstream AI tooling at work has become.
Key takeaways · AI-distilled
In an Epoch AI/Ipsos probability-panel survey of 2,021 US adults (March 3-5, 2026), half reported using AI tools in the past week.
Among employed people who used AI that week, half used it at least as much for work as for personal tasks, a sign of routine workplace adoption.
Among those work-focused users, AI had replaced some existing tasks for 27% and created new tasks for 21%, so it both automates and adds work.
Work use rises with who pays: employer-paid subscribers are far more likely to use AI for work than free-tier users, with self-paying users in between.
