News Summary

• In September 2023, the Census Bureau added questions about AI to its Business Trends and Outlook Survey.
• Among firms using AI, 44% say it supplemented or enhanced work an employee already does.
• Among those using generative AI, 85% of firms cited writing or editing documents and email as the biggest uses, half cite searching for information, 45% summarizing documents, and 13% coding.
• Sixty-four percent of adopters say they changed nothing about the business in order to use AI.