Authors

Alex Bick, Adam Blandin, David Deming, Kerry McKittrick

Posted to EERN: October 6, 2026

FEDERAL RESERVE RESEARCH: St. Louis

The impact of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) on the economy depends on the speed and intensity of its adoption. This tracker visualizes data from the first nationally representative U.S. surveys of genAI usage at work and at home. Our data come from the Real-Time Population Survey (RPS), a national online labor market survey of working-age adults aged 18-64 that has run since 2020. RPS is designed and weighted to be nationally representative and to complement existing government surveys, such as the Current Population Survey or the American Community Survey, by carefully replicating core sections of those surveys while still leaving room for novel questions.

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