Claim LD03-SL-C03 (v1.0)
In May 2026, 45% of US workers used generative AI for work, but adoption was widespread and shallow: within most occupations and tasks fewer than half of workers used it, no task exceeded 70% adoption, and mean weekly hours among work users had stayed flat since late 2024.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (WORKING_PAPER) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH WORKING-PAPER QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Productivity or output effects; firm-level adoption
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026
- Source type (field 7)
- WORKING_PAPER (as printed: “Academic working paper”)
- Institutional position
- Government research
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD03-SL-C03--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026” → SRC-SL-BICK-BLANDIN-DEMING-SCHUMACHER-STLFED-WP-2026-017--v1.0 — Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026; class WORKING_PAPER (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD03-SL-C03 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | In May 2026, 45% of US workers used generative AI for work, but adoption was widespread and shallow: within most occupations and tasks fewer than half of workers used it, no task exceeded 70% adoption, and mean weekly hours among work users had stayed flat since late 2024. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | ESTIMATE | base_types: ESTIMATE |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | A — Adoption and depth of use | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | RAPIDLY MATURING | states: RAPIDLY_MATURING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026 | source_ids: SRC-SL-BICK-BLANDIN-DEMING-SCHUMACHER-STLFED-WP-2026-017 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Academic working paper | classes: WORKING_PAPER |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Government research | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | US adults aged 18–64; task module August 2025 to May 2026 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Nationally representative survey with a task module | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Real-Time Population Survey respondents | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Generative AI in general | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | Workers in the same occupation or task who do not use it | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | 45% of workers use generative AI for work (62% of adults use it at all); four in five detailed occupations have adoption above 20% but only one in six above 70%; no task exceeds 70%; mean weekly hours of work use flat | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | How widely and how deeply generative AI is used across US jobs and tasks | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Productivity or output effects; firm-level adoption | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Self-reported use; 'shallow' refers to the share of workers adopting within an occupation or task, not to hours of use | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | Consistent with other Real-Time Population Survey measures of work use cited in LD-02 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Uneven adoption among workers doing the same job | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-03, D2 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | Later waves showing within-occupation adoption converging or weekly hours rising | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH WORKING-PAPER QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: WORKING_PAPER |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-03 (LIVING_DEBATE); D2 (DOMAIN)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 2db2f2719030f338834702804999aea9c2d070c53ded90a652d4ef6c5b9431ee.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C03 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 03 — LD03-SL-C03” SHA-256
1bdc69617297c08eb7a01a000419af09920b17e6a458c8b9f2f38ad31e27d192; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD03-SL-C03--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C03 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-03 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD03-SL-C03 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-03 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-03 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-BICK-BLANDIN-DEMING-SCHUMACHER-STLFED-WP-2026-017--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 03 — LD03-SL-C03 cites "Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-BICK-BLANDIN-DEMING-SCHUMACHER-STLFED-WP-2026-017--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Bick, Blandin, Deming & Schumacher, “What Work Does Generative AI Do?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2026-017A, August 2026".