According to the latest CNBC|SurveyMonkey Workforce Survey, workers who use artificial intelligence (AI) for their jobs are thriving. They are more likely to have received recent salary increases that have outpaced inflation, to consider themselves very well paid, to say they have opportunities to advance their careers, and to say morale at their company is high. Workers who say using AI is necessary to do their job are more likely to say their salary has increased more than inflation in the past year and to rate morale at their workplace as excellent. Early adopters of AI in the workplace are a more diverse bunch than you might expect. The group of workers who say AI is required to do their job tend to be younger than workers on average, but they are less likely to be white and no more likely than other workers to have incomes in the six figures. More than one in five workers in advertising & marketing say “using AI is necessary to do my job,” making it the field with the highest percentage of its workers who are already incorporating AI into their day-to-day jobs. However, even if more satisfied in jobs now, the data suggests early adoption of AI can lead to a higher level of fear about the future. About half of workers in advertising & marketing and business support and logistics are worried AI will soon take their job twice the level of concern overall.
