Ethan Mollick Says AI Adoption Continues to Grow, Cites Simon Willison Methodology Discussion

What happened

AI adoption continues to grow (remember last year during the summer when everyone thought adoption was dropping?) Also good discussion of changes in methodology by Simon in the post. Quoted post by @simonw (context, not the main author's work): In updating a graphic showing U.S. company AI adoption over time according to a long-running U.S. Census Bureau survey, I found out that the Bureau's work has been sullied by that asinine "Super Intelligence" executive order https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/

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The story so far

Ethan Mollick said AI adoption continues to grow and pointed readers to Simon Willison’s discussion of changes in the methodology behind a graphic tracking U.S. company AI adoption in a long-running Census Bureau survey. Mollick recalled that some people thought adoption was falling the previous summer. Willison said the Census Bureau’s work had been affected by a “Super Intelligence” executive order. The report does not specify how the order changed the survey or the adoption figures.