Across industries, workers are confronting rapid change as ai fluency quietly emerges as a powerful differentiator in pay, promotions, and long-term career security.
Most employees still are not using AI at work
A new study from Google and Ipsos, shared with Fortune, shows that only two in five U.S. workers, or 40%, are even casually using AI in their jobs. Moreover, just 5% qualify as “AI fluent,” meaning they have significantly redesigned or reorganized key parts of their work using the technology.
That small fluent group is seeing outsized rewards. According to the report, these workers are 4.5x more likely to say they earn higher wages and 4x more likely to report a promotion specifically tied to their ability to use AI. However, most employees remain in the early, experimental phase of using these tools.
Among workers who are not using AI at all, the main obstacle is simple disbelief in its relevance. 53% of non-users say they do not think AI applies to the work t
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