The St. Louis Fed's Real-Time Population Survey found that generative AI adoption among US workers ages 18-64 grew from 33.3% in August 2024 to 37.4% in August 2025. Workers report devoting 5.7% of work hours to generative AI tasks (up from 4.1% nine months earlier). Self-reported time savings aggregate to 1.6% of total work hours, which when modeled through a standard production function suggests 1.3% cumulative labor productivity gain since ChatGPT's release, consistent with observed US nonfarm productivity acceleration of 2.16% annualized from Q4 2022 to Q2 2025. At industry level, a 1 percentage point increase in time-savings usage correlates with 2.7 percentage points higher productivity growth relative to prepandemic trend (r = 0.32), though the source cautions correlation is not causal. For financial institutions, this data bears on whether generative AI productivity gains are visible in aggregate macro outcomes and whether enterprise adoption breadth supports ROI and contract-renewal narratives.
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