These are the countries where workers are most likely to use generative AI—and the U.S. is lagging behind the leaders

Generative AI may not be coming for your job, but it’s certainly coming to your job. Worldwide, 75% of knowledge workers now use gen AI in their work, according to a recent Microsoft/LinkedIn survey. Often it’s employees, not companies, leading the way: In most countries, and to a particularly great degree in China and the U.S., many workers regularly use gen-AI tools even though their employer isn’t providing any. Notably, while the U.S. is home to the world’s dominant platforms, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Llama, it lags behind middle-income countries like India, Indonesia, and Brazil in gen-AI adoption—a sign that tech-savvy younger workers could be helping emerging-market economies close the global digital divide.

This piece appears in the December 2024/January 2025 issue of Fortune with the headline “In the AI workplace race, the U.S. isn’t winning.”