A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is "shallow" for certain tasks
THE SO WHAT
Usage telemetry from millions of interactions suggests most enterprise AI today is lightweight assistance, not deep workflow automation. That’s a green light to invest in higher-friction, embedded use cases — the shallow stuff is getting commoditized, but the real productivity delta is still mostly untapped.
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