According to @emollick, a new NBER working paper shows US workers both use AI more and gain larger productivity benefits, leading the United States to capture the most value from current AI adoption. As reported by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the paper (NBER Working Paper w34995) quantifies higher AI utilization rates among US employees and associates these with stronger task-level performance gains compared with peers in other countries. According to NBER, these gains translate into measurable output improvements in information-heavy roles, suggesting near-term competitive advantages for US firms in knowledge work, customer operations, and software workflows. As noted by @emollick citing NBER, higher adoption intensity in the US likely compounds via learning effects, complementarity with enterprise software, and faster deployment of AI copilots, creating a widening productivity gap. For businesses, the NBER analysis indicates immediate opportunities to scale AI copilots in customer support, sales enablement, and coding assistance, prioritize workforce training to lift utilization rates, and measure ROI by tracking task completion speed, quality scores, and error reduction.