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Title: AI Use At Large Companies Is In Decline, Census Bureau Says

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/11/2123245/a...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: [D]espite the AI industry's
attempts to make itself seem omnipresent, a new report this week shows that
adoption at large U.S. companies has declined. The report comes from the
Census Bureau and shows that the rate of AI adoption by large companies --
that is, firms with over 250 employees -- has been declining slightly in
recent weeks. The report is based on a biweekly survey, dubbed Business
Trends and Outlook (or BTOS), of some 1.2 million U.S. firms. The survey,
which asks businesses about their use of AI tools, such as machine learning
and agents, found that -- between June and now -- the rate of adoption had
declined from 14 to 12 percent. Futurism notes that this is the largest drop-
off in the adoption rate since the survey first began in 2023, although the
survey also showed a slight increase in AI use among smaller companies. The
moderate drop off comes after the rate of adoption had climbed precipitously
over the last few years. When the survey first began, in September of 2023,
the AI adoption rate hovered around 3.7 percent (PDF), while the adoption
rate in December 2024 was around 5.7 percent. In the second quarter of this
year, the rate also rose significantly, climbing from 7.4 percent to 9.2. The
new drop-off in reported usage comes not long after another study, this one
published by MIT, found that a vast majority of corporate AI pilot programs
had failed to produce any material benefit to the companies involved.

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