Scope (see data dictionary),Question ID,Question,Answer ID,Answer,Estimate,Standard Error
1,1,"In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",1,Yes,5.0%,0.05%
1,1,"In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",2,No,84.2%,0.08%
1,1,"In the last two weeks, did this business use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",3,Do not know,10.8%,0.08%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",1,Machine learning,1.2%,0.02%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",2,Natural language processing,1.7%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",3,Virtual agents or chat bots,1.9%,0.04%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",4,Speech/voice recognition using AI,1.4%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",5,Recommendation systems based on AI,0.8%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",6,Large language models,1.0%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",7,Text analytics using AI,1.5%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",8,Data analytics using AI,1.5%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",9,Neural networks,0.2%,0.01%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",10,Augmented reality,0.1%,0.01%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",11,Decision making systems based on AI,0.5%,0.01%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",12,Deep learning,0.3%,0.02%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",13,Image/pattern recognition,0.7%,0.02%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",14,Machine/computer vision,0.5%,0.02%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",15,Robotics process automation,0.3%,0.01%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",16,Biometrics,0.3%,0.02%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",17,Marketing automation using AI,2.5%,0.04%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",18,Other,1.4%,0.03%
1,2,"In the last six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) did this business use in producing goods or services?",19,None,91.2%,0.08%
2,3,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks previously done by employees in producing goods or services?",1,Yes,26.6%,0.38%
2,3,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks previously done by employees in producing goods or services?",2,No,65.2%,0.46%
2,3,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks previously done by employees in producing goods or services?",3,Do not know,8.1%,0.23%
3,4,"In the last six months, how many tasks previously done by employees were instead performed by Artificial Intelligence?",1,A small number,84.6%,0.49%
3,4,"In the last six months, how many tasks previously done by employees were instead performed by Artificial Intelligence?",2,A moderate number,13.0%,0.54%
3,4,"In the last six months, how many tasks previously done by employees were instead performed by Artificial Intelligence?",3,A large number,2.4%,0.24%
2,5,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations previously performed by existing equipment or software in producing goods or services?",1,Yes,19.6%,0.37%
2,5,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations previously performed by existing equipment or software in producing goods or services?",2,No,68.9%,0.41%
2,5,"In the last six months, did this business use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations previously performed by existing equipment or software in producing goods or services?",3,Do not know,11.5%,0.32%
2,6,"In the last six months, how did the use of Artificial Intelligence affect this business’s total employment?",1,Increased,2.8%,0.23%
2,6,"In the last six months, how did the use of Artificial Intelligence affect this business’s total employment?",2,Decreased,2.6%,0.13%
2,6,"In the last six months, how did the use of Artificial Intelligence affect this business’s total employment?",3,Did not change,94.6%,0.32%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",1,Trained current staff to use AI,20.8%,0.34%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",2,Hired staff trained in AI,2.0%,0.10%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",3,Purchased computing power or specialized equipment,5.9%,0.18%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",4,Purchased cloud services or cloud storage,12.4%,0.26%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",5,Changed data collection or data management practices,8.0%,0.21%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",6,Developed new workflows,19.7%,0.40%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",7,Used vendors or consulting services to install or integrate AI,7.8%,0.16%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",8,Other,7.6%,0.13%
2,7,"In the last six months, to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), what changes did this business make?",9,None,50.5%,0.40%
1,8,"During the next six months, do you think this business will be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",1,Yes,6.5%,0.07%
1,8,"During the next six months, do you think this business will be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",2,No,70.6%,0.16%
1,8,"During the next six months, do you think this business will be using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in producing goods or services? (Examples of AI: machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents, voice recognition, etc.)",3,Do not know,22.9%,0.17%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",1,Machine Learning,22.1%,0.32%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",2,Natural language processing,26.6%,0.42%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",3,Virtual agents or chat bots,28.2%,0.61%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",4,Speech/voice recognition using AI,22.2%,0.54%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",5,Recommendation systems based on AI,16.8%,0.32%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",6,Large language models,15.5%,0.29%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",7,Text analytics using AI,23.0%,0.44%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",8,Data analytics using AI,29.8%,0.56%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",9,Neural networks,3.7%,0.21%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",10,Augmented reality,3.3%,0.13%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",11,Decision making systems based on AI,14.1%,0.27%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",12,Deep learning,7.3%,0.17%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",13,Image/pattern recognition,13.3%,0.37%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",14,Machine/computer vision,7.0%,0.29%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",15,Robotics process automation,5.2%,0.19%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",16,Biometrics,3.8%,0.21%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",17,Marketing automation using AI,36.5%,0.57%
4,9,"During the next six months, what types or applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) do you think this business will use in producing goods or services?",18,Other,12.4%,0.31%
4,10,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks currently done by employees in producing goods or services?",1,Yes,34.4%,0.41%
4,10,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks currently done by employees in producing goods or services?",2,No,51.2%,0.43%
4,10,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform tasks currently done by employees in producing goods or services?",3,Do not know,14.4%,0.38%
5,11,"During the next six months, how many tasks currently done by employees will instead be performed by Artificial Intelligence?",1,A small number,79.2%,0.60%
5,11,"During the next six months, how many tasks currently done by employees will instead be performed by Artificial Intelligence?",2,A moderate number,17.7%,0.51%
5,11,"During the next six months, how many tasks currently done by employees will instead be performed by Artificial Intelligence?",3,A large number,3.1%,0.28%
4,12,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations currently performed by existing equipment and software in producing goods or services?",1,Yes,33.5%,0.39%
4,12,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations currently performed by existing equipment and software in producing goods or services?",2,No,46.1%,0.45%
4,12,"During the next six months, do you think this business will use Artificial Intelligence to perform operations currently performed by existing equipment and software in producing goods or services?",3,Do not know,20.4%,0.46%
4,13,"During the next six months, how do you think the use of Artificial Intelligence will affect this business’s total employment?",1,Increase,6.5%,0.21%
4,13,"During the next six months, how do you think the use of Artificial Intelligence will affect this business’s total employment?",2,Decrease,6.1%,0.17%
4,13,"During the next six months, how do you think the use of Artificial Intelligence will affect this business’s total employment?",3,Will not change,87.4%,0.26%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",1,Train current staff to use AI,41.9%,0.58%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",2,Hire staff trained in AI,8.0%,0.15%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",3,Purchase computing power or specialized equipment,12.2%,0.35%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",4,Purchase cloud services or cloud storage,18.6%,0.22%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",5,Change data collection or data management practices,20.7%,0.46%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",6,Develop new workflows,37.6%,0.59%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",7,Use vendors or consulting services to install or integrate AI,16.7%,0.30%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",8,Other,6.9%,0.27%
4,14,"During the next six months, to use Artificial Intelligence, what changes do you think this business will make?",9,None,26.7%,0.58%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,1,Too expensive,4.1%,0.07%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,2,AI is not a mature enough technology yet,6.1%,0.09%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,3,Lack of knowledge on the capabilities of AI,7.3%,0.06%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,4,Concerns about privacy/security,6.6%,0.05%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,5,Concerns about bias,2.8%,0.04%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,6,Lack of skilled workforce,2.9%,0.05%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,7,Lack of required data,2.2%,0.03%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,8,Laws and regulations prevent or restrict use of AI,1.2%,0.04%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,9,Previous or current use of AI did not meet expectations,0.9%,0.02%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,10,Other,4.5%,0.07%
6,15,Why does this business not plan to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the next six months in producing goods or services?,11,AI is not applicable to this business,80.9%,0.14%
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"Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS). The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data.",,,,,,
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