AI Adoption Gap Widens as OpenAI Warns of a New Workplace Divide

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OpenAI’s new report highlights a growing divide between “frontier” workers heavily relying on AI and workers who have barely adopted the tools. While 75% of surveyed employees say AI enables them to do tasks they couldn’t before — including coding outside of technical teams — this expansion of “vibe coding” raises potential security risks.
OpenAI pointed to its agentic security tool Aardvark as one response, but executives admit full AI integration requires major workflow shifts that many companies haven’t made.
As firms race to harness AI — and as OpenAI shoulders historic infrastructure spending — the laggards may soon find themselves struggling to catch up in a rapidly replatforming digital workplace.

[Rimon Khan]

AI literacy becoming a major differentiator across industries.

[Nahid Hossen]

The adoption gap today could be the productivity gap tomorrow.