US work-use intensity differs sharply by measure: in Q2 2026 about 45.2% of employed adults reported current generative-AI use for work, 39.2% reported use in the last week and 13.7% reported use every workday.

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Claim LD02-HQ-C16 (v1.0)

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Does the young-worker hiring gap hold up with survey-measured AI use instead of exposure?Representative survey data already measure US work use of generative AI, and intensity differs sharply by measure (current use, last week, every workday); the claim warns that such rates are not a causal treatment, so the design treats them as a better-targeted ranking, not as an experiment.

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Claim type: Estimate
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: date or metric
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Firm adoption rate; causal employment treatment; equal intensity among “users”
Limitations: Self-report; rapidly changing measure; survey definition matters
Source (as cited): Bick, Blandin & Deming Real-Time Population Survey / Federal Reserve FRED series, Q2 2026
Source type: Survey (recorded as “Survey / official statistical dissemination”)
Institutional position: Academic / Federal Reserve data dissemination
Maturity of the evidence: Rapidly maturing evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Bick, Blandin & Deming Real-Time Population Survey / Federal Reserve FRED series, Q2 2026 (Survey)
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Claim type (coded): ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (DATE_OR_METRIC) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH DATE/METRIC QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY
Source type (coded): SURVEY
Maturity (coded): RAPIDLY_MATURING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD02-HQ-C16	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	US work-use intensity differs sharply by measure: in Q2 2026 about 45.2% of employed adults reported current generative-AI use for work, 39.2% reported use in the last week and 13.7% reported use every workday.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Exposure, adoption and actual use	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Bick, Blandin & Deming Real-Time Population Survey / Federal Reserve FRED series, Q2 2026	source_ids: SRC-LD02-RPS-FRED-Q2-2026
7	SOURCE TYPE	Survey / official statistical dissemination	classes: SURVEY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Academic / Federal Reserve data dissemination	—
9	SCOPE	US employed adults, Q2 2026	—
10	DESIGN	Repeated population survey	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Real-Time Population Survey	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Generative AI tools broadly	—
13	COMPARATOR	Different use-intensity definitions	—
14	MAIN RESULT	~45.2% current work use; ~39.2% last-week work use; ~13.7% every-workday use	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Work-use prevalence/intensity	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Firm adoption rate; causal employment treatment; equal intensity among “users”	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Self-report; rapidly changing measure; survey definition matters	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Complements Census firm/task-use distinction	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Use varies by occupation/education; not adjudicated here as a public subgroup claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D2, L-C, R-1	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	New quarterly survey vintage supersedes Q2 2026	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH DATE/METRIC QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: DATE_OR_METRIC
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). US work-use intensity differs sharply by measure: in Q2 2026 about 45.2% of employed adults reported current generative-AI use for work, 39.2% reported use in the last week and 13.7% reported use every workday [Claim LD02-HQ-C16, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld02-hq-c16/v1.0/

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