Gallup says 52% of U.S. employees use AI at work.
It also says 15% use it daily.
Both numbers are true, and neither tells you what your workforce is actually doing.
This week’s article in The AI Mirror is about the power-user myth: why the people most excited about AI were never a representative sample, why adoption statistics all measure different things, and why governance designed around the enthusiast misses everyone else.
That includes a group I call the AI survivalists.
They are not necessarily anti-AI.
They are not necessarily champions either.
They are the people trying to keep doing their jobs while the organization changes the tools, the expectations, and the language around work.
The statistics can point at reality.
They cannot replace the work of understanding it.