AI is often framed as a universal technological shift, but these charts show a more human story: adoption is rising quickly, yet exposure, capability and likely benefit are distributed unevenly across industries, education levels and places.

Chart 1: AI adoption is accelerating — but not evenly

Chart 2: Industries differ in how GenAI may reshape work

Chart 3: GenAI augmentation rises with education

Chart 4: Who already has AI skills?

Chart 5: The AI transition is geographic too

The real issue is not whether AI will affect work, but whether people enter that transition with the same capacity to benefit from it.