Welcome back to the AI Shift, our weekly dive into how AI is shaking up the world of work. For today’s edition we are digging into some of the insights from our new poll of how thousands of workers in the US and UK are using AI in their jobs, which we carried out with research firm Focaldata.
The headline finding is that the highest-paid and most well-educated workers are using AI in their jobs much more than lower paid workers, risking an exacerbation of existing divides in productivity and earnings. But there were a lot more nuggets buried in the data which we will get into below, as well as some important nuances to keep in mind when thinking about the inequality narrative.