AI’s crawling into the office
Artificial intelligence keeps showing up to work earlier than everyone thought. Goldman analysts say 20.6% of U.S. companies were using AI in June, which is a fancy way of saying the tech has moved from “cool demo” to “actually in the workflow.”
The weird part: the job market is still shrugging
You’d expect a technology this loud to leave some obvious footprints in hiring and wages. But so far, the damage — or boost, depending on your seat at the table — looks narrow.
- Some sectors are seeing AI-related drags.
- But those headwinds have been offset by growth in construction.
- Translation: the labor market isn’t getting flattened by one giant AI wrecking ball.
Why investors should care
This is the part where the market has to do two things at once: price in faster AI adoption, while not assuming every company is about to slash headcount tomorrow. If you were expecting instant, economy-wide disruption, the data says “not yet.”
Big picture: AI adoption is still spreading, but the labor market may be a lot more stubborn — and a lot less cinematic — than the hype cycle suggests.