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<span class="preheader" style="color: transparent; display: none; height: 0; max-height: 0; max-width: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; visibility: hidden; width: 0;">What new surveys tell us about the messy state of AI diffusion</span>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><em>This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. See </em><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/63d4694f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em><u>my full ethics disclosure here</u></em></a><em>.</em></p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Here are two headlines from the past week that would seem to suggest very different outcomes for the race to build superintelligence. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In one corner, we have Reuters: “<a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/7057e946?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds</u></a>,” according to the story by Jason Lange and Alexandra Alper. They write:</p><blockquote style="margin: 0; padding: 0; border-left: #2047FF 2px solid; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: #15212A;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 2em 25px; font-size: 1em; padding: 0; color: #15212A;">The six-day poll, which concluded on Monday, showed 71% of respondents said they were concerned that AI will be "putting too many people out of work permanently."<br><br>While at present there are few signs of mass unemployment — the <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/53b87b6d?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>U.S. jobless rate was just 4.2% in July</u></a> — artificial intelligence is stirring concerns as it reshapes jobs, industries and day-to-day life.</p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In the other corner, via <em>Fortune</em>, comes this story: “<a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/ca210b16?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing</u></a>.” In it, Sheryl Estrada reports that the study found that efforts to quickly boost revenues using AI have mostly fallen short. She writes:</p><blockquote style="margin: 0; padding: 0; border-left: #2047FF 2px solid; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.6em; letter-spacing: -0.2px; color: #15212A;"><p style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 2em 25px; font-size: 1em; padding: 0; color: #15212A;">Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research — based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments — paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects. [...]<br><br>The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise integration. Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to workflows.</p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And so on one hand, a majority of Americans are increasingly concerned that AI will lead to permanent unemployment. And on the other, their employers can’t figure out how to get it to work right.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Of course, the two findings are not mutually exclusive. The history of innovation suggests it is entirely possible, and even likely, that employers will eventually figure out how to automate away some significant number of jobs. At the same time, there is a comical disconnect between the consultant class writing spittle-flecked LinkedIn posts about how AI is changing everything, and the survey respondents glumly acknowledging that their proprietary AI systems mostly aren’t working.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">So how can we reconcile the two surveys? In part, by … looking at some other recent surveys.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">On Monday, Google Cloud and the Harris Poll <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/4da21202?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>published a survey</u></a> of 615 video game developers around the world about the state of AI in their industry. It found that a substantial 87 percent of respondents report that they are already using AI agents in their work, for tasks including gameplay balancing, playtesting, and code generation.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">One conclusion you could draw from the survey is that AI is working better for small teams and individuals than it is for large enterprises. The <em>New York Times</em> reported over the weekend that many of the CEOs who have publicly embraced AI <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/9ede7864?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>barely use it themselves</u></a> — in meetings all day and less likely to try new tech tools than their younger counterparts, they’re having to carve out time just to experiment with it. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">They also tend to focus on the wrong things when it comes to AI: “More than half of generative AI budgets are devoted to sales and marketing tools,” <em>Fortune</em> reports, “yet MIT found the biggest ROI in back-office automation — eliminating business process outsourcing, cutting external agency costs, and streamlining operations.”</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Game developers at small studios, on the other hand, are beset by the sort of tedious repetitive tasks that AI systems can sometimes excel at handling. And they don’t need anyone to tell them what to try first.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">This dynamic can explain both why top-down decrees about AI adoption from the CEO’s office are falling short, and why bottom-up explorations of AI by individual workers are more successful.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">It also, I think, helps to explain why so many Americans worry AI will someday take their job. The more utility they find in AI in their individual work, the easier it is for them to see the day when an automated system can do their whole job.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Still, that day may be further away than the biggest pessimists fear. Yet another survey, this one from Stack Overflow, found last month that 84 percent of developers plan to use generative AI at work this year — but also that trust in AI systems <a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e9a9191e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>had fallen 10 percent over the past year</u></a>. The workers using AI most frequently are also the ones that best understand its many failures: the way it hallucinates, breaks down, ignores relevant context, and so on. </p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">And in the Google Cloud story, 62 percent of respondents said they have already seen new jobs created to implement AI systems at their jobs.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">Ultimately, then, recent surveys don’t contradict each other so much as they illustrate how unevenly the AI future is currently distributed. More junior workers are becoming more savvy about which parts of their jobs they can ask a machine to do — and which ones they can’t. Meanwhile, more senior executives are finding that creating new efficiencies is rarely as simple as purchasing the GPT-5 API.</p><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">In the end, perhaps we will all have to worry about AI taking away our jobs. But first, corporate America is going to have to learn some very expensive lessons.  </p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><strong style="font-weight: 700;">Talk about this edition with us in Discord: </strong><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/9e920ba5?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">This link will get you in for the next week</a>.</p><h3 id="governing" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Governing</h3><ul style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; padding-left: 1.3em; padding-right: 1.5em; list-style: disc; max-width: 100%;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/1d6ea608?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The White House launched an official TikTok account</a>. (Steve Holland / Reuters) </li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/2388ae13?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Google agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming YouTube violated children’s privacy by collecting their information without parental consent and using it for targeted ads.</u></a> Google denied wrongdoing in the settlement. (Jonathan Stempel / Reuters)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/7d6d9635?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Google is proposing changes to its Play Store that makes it easier for third-party developers to direct customers away from the Android ecosystem to make app purchases in an effort to avoid future EU fines.</u></a> (Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/0e8ba2b1?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Federal prosecutors accused a 22-year-old Oregon man of operating a vast network of hacked devices, known as Rapper Bot, that allegedly caused X to go offline earlier this year.</u></a> (Robert MacMillan / <em>Wall Street Journal</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/23d5cad9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Wyoming unveiled its first official state-backed stablecoin, the Frontier Stable Token, on seven blockchains, meant to be used for retail and enterprises.</u></a> The Constitution prohibits states from launching their own currencies but whatever! (Daniel Kuhn / <em>The Block</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e136d354?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>The UK has dropped its demand for Apple to provide a “backdoor” that would give it access to American citizens’ encrypted data, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said.</u></a> A rare win for actual free expression from the Trump Administration. (Kanishka Singh / Reuters)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/fdfb1b56?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>The UK’s regulation of mobile app stores is “well behind” other countries, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said.</u></a> (Tim Bradshaw / <em>Financial Times</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/cfe30118?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Nvidia is reportedly developing a new AI chip for China that’ll be more powerful than the H20.</u></a> (Liam Mo and Fanny Potkin / Reuters)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/34f89a40?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>A group of current and former Microsoft employees organized a protest at its Redmond, Washington headquarters protesting the company’s partnership with the Israeli military.</u></a> (Hayden Field / <em>The Verge</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/624d4bc9?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Bill Gates is funding a competition that will award $1 million to a team that best uses AI agents to find innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s.</u></a> (Stephen Morris / <em>Financial Times</em>)</li></ul><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><h3 id="industry" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Industry</h3><ul style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; padding-left: 1.3em; padding-right: 1.5em; list-style: disc; max-width: 100%;"><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/7eeb15bb?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>OpenAI launched an India-only subscription plan called ChatGPT Go, priced at 399 rupees — $4.57 — per month, its cheapest offering.</u></a> (Reuters)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/f6f93361?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>A look at the users who complained about GPT-5's "cold" responses, which led OpenAI to restore access to GPT-4o.</u></a> (Dylan Freedman / <em>New York Times</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/c53705ab?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>TikTok is launching a new feature, Campus Verification, that lets college students find and connect with others on their campus.</u></a> (Aisha Malik / <em>TechCrunch</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/aedea0ac?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>X saw a 44 percent decline in app downloads on Android devices from last year, even as iOS downloads grew by 15 percent.</u></a> (Sarah Perez / <em>TechCrunch</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/8a233e23?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Meta confirmed that it is splitting its Superintelligence Labs AI division into four groups — focusing on AI research, superintelligence, products and infrastructure.</u></a> Some AI executives are expected to leave, and the division is expected to be downsized, sources said. (Mike Isaac and Eli Tan / <em>New York Times</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/d2cf927e?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Meta is rolling out an AI voice translation feature on Facebook and Instagram globally.</u></a> (Sarah Perez / <em>TechCrunch</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/e0a90409?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Google’s AI filmmaking program Flow has helped creators produce over 100 million AI videos, it said.</u></a> (Katelyn Chedraoui / <em>CNET</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/c5e51838?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Apple is expanding iPhone production in India and is reportedly producing all four iPhone 17 models there ahead of their debut.</u></a> (Sankalp Phartiyal and Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/3bdc7553?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Character.AI’s most popular chatbot boyfriends exhibit some major relationship red flags, this experiment suggests.</u></a> (Rebecca Ruiz / <em>Mashable</em>)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/591d0f7f?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>DeepSeek announced V3.1, an update to its older V3 AI model that can consider a larger amount of information for queries.</u></a> (Bloomberg)</li><li style="margin: 0.5em 0; padding-left: 0.3em; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/888ad2fa?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><u>Nvidia is partnering with Discord and Epic Games to test instant game demos for Discord servers, which could let users try a game without buying it.</u></a> (Sean Hollister / <em>The Verge</em>)</li></ul><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2024/05/floating_linebreak_600px-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="157" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><h3 id="those-good-posts" style="margin-top: 0; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.11em; font-weight: 700; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; margin: 1.5em 0 0.5em 0; font-size: 26px; color: #15212A;">Those good posts</h3><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;"><em>For more good posts every day, </em><a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/27b1bd25?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; color: #2047FF; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><em>follow Casey’s Instagram stories</em></a><em>.</em></p><div class="kg-card kg-image-card" style="margin: 0 0 1.5em; padding: 0;"><img src="https://www.platformer.news/content/images/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-19-at-5.19.51---PM.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="600" height="142" style="border: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 0 auto; height: auto; width: auto;"></div><p style="margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; line-height: 1.6em; color: #15212A;">(<a href="https://www.platformer.news/r/63a90c45?m=51418983-c335-42dc-b433-9fac3bd4e54a" rel="noreferrer" style="overflow-wrap: anywhere; 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