12% of American workers use artificial intelligence in their roles every day

When Anthropic this month announced Claude Cowork, an AI agent designed to help the everyman’s working day run a little smoother, it certainly caused a splash, sinking software stocks and scaring the life out of startup founders around the world.

Per a new Gallup survey, however, the American workforce has already been getting more hands-on with the tech, even BC (Before Cowork). According to the findings published yesterday, AI use in the American workplace continued to rise in the last quarter of 2025, with the share of daily, frequent, and total users all growing in Q4.

Indeed, in only about 2.5 years, the percentage of US employees who use the tech every day in their professional lives has tripled, while the share of those using it at least “a few times a week” or at least “a few times a year” have both more than doubled as well, per Gallup’s latest data.

Whether the rise (and rise again) of the machines that help people to get their jobs done comes as any big shock to you likely depends on your office, your company, or even the industry that you work in.

As of Q4 2025, the share of workers who say they use the tech every day has risen to 12% across the board, up from 4% in the second quarter of 2023. That figure varies quite wildly in certain industries, though, with almost a third of tech workers reporting daily usage, compared to just 8% of government and public policy employees and community and social services workers who say the same.

Meanwhile, some 49% of the US workforce reported “never” using AI in their role, in yet another clear reflection of the fact that the tech’s boom has just passed certain professions by entirely — perhaps gladly, too, for many workers in those sectors, with some blue-collar industries seeing a “renaissance” in the AI age.