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A curated library of reports on AI adoption, agents, workforce change, enterprise transformation, risk, and sector impact. Updated through September 2026.
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View on Amazon →Detecting and Countering Misuse of AI: September 2026
Reports disrupted misuse of Claude across cyber operations, influence operations, surveillance, scams, biological misuse, conventional weapons, and distillation.
Relative Development and the Intelligence Divide: Human Capital, Technology Diffusion, and AI
Studies how human capital and technology diffusion shape whether countries can productively use AI and avoid a widening intelligence divide.
Responsible AI Transparency Report 2026
Details Microsoft's responsible AI governance, release practices, risk management, transparency work, agentic AI safeguards, and ecosystem responsibilities.
The Key to AI Value Is Hiding in Plain Sight: Your Operating Model
Argues that AI value depends on operating-model redesign, including workflows, roles, governance, decision rights, and technology integration.
Redacted Risk Report, August 2026
Publishes Anthropic's frontier risk assessment and preparedness update under its Responsible Scaling Policy, covering model risks, mitigations, and forward plans.
Reviewing the Evidence on Worker Retraining Programs
Reviews evidence on worker retraining programs and evaluates whether retraining can mitigate labor-market disruption from AI.
Enterprise Signals: What Frontier Firms Are Doing Differently
Tracks OpenAI enterprise usage patterns, showing how agentic work is spreading across organizations and how frontier firms differ from the rest.
AI Agents Are Only the Beginning: The Path to Agentic Transformation
Uses survey and interview research to explain why organizations need executable road maps, redesigned processes, and workforce transformation for agentic AI.
AI and Economic Divergence in Asia
Uses a small open economy overlapping-generations model to analyze how AI may drive divergence across and within Asian economies.
From Asking to Doing: How the World Is Putting ChatGPT to Work
Publishes country-by-country ChatGPT usage data showing how AI adoption is spreading globally and moving from asking questions toward completing tasks.
World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Assesses what AI means for low- and middle-income countries, including adoption, adaptation, infrastructure, skills, development, jobs, productivity, and risk.
Adoption of Generative AI in the Workplace: Increasing and Shifting the Balance of Productivity and Communication Activity
Uses Microsoft 365 digital trace data across multiple large international companies to examine how GenAI adoption changes productivity and communication activity.
The State of AI in 2026: On the Road to ROI
Tracks enterprise AI adoption, scaling, agentic AI, operating-model practices, and the organizational conditions associated with returns on AI investment.
What Work Does Generative AI Do?
Uses a nationally representative survey to measure task-level GenAI adoption across occupations and distinguish exposure from actual use.
CentaurBench: Benchmarking LLM Capabilities on Augmenting vs. Automating Real-World Work Tasks
Introduces a benchmark that distinguishes model performance in automation from model performance in augmenting another agent on real-world tasks.
Canaries in the Gold Mine: Early Productivity Gains from Artificial Intelligence Creating Organization Capital
Uses firm-level AI investment measures to study productivity gains and the creation of organization capital from AI-skilled employment.
AI Traffic Trends Report: August 2026
Analyzes how AI referrals are reshaping web traffic, discovery, marketing, commerce, and customer acquisition patterns.
Competition in the Age of AI: Initial Evidence from Microdata
Uses microdata to examine how AI relates to competition, market structure, user firms, AI developers, markups, acquisitions, and market dynamism.
Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026
Analyzes breach costs and security trends, including the rise and cost impact of AI-enabled malicious breaches.
Work at the Frontier: How AI Is Expanding What People Do at Work
Analyzes work-related ChatGPT usage to show how AI helps workers perform tasks beyond the traditional boundaries of their occupations.
Recent Policy Developments on AI in the Labour Market
Reviews recent AI labor-market policy measures across G7 countries, the EU, and selected Latin American economies.
2026 State of Infrastructure in the Agentic AI Era
Surveys global IT leaders on the infrastructure, governance, security, MLOps, hybrid cloud, and energy requirements for production-grade agentic AI.
Artificial Intelligence and Personal Finance
Reviews opportunities and risks from AI in personal finance and financial education, including advice, consumer protection, bias, privacy, and trust.
Artificial Intelligence in UK Businesses: 2023 to 2026
Uses UK business survey data to show how businesses are applying AI, what shapes uptake, how AI is integrated, and where effects are emerging.
Trust and Safety Outlook 2026
Examines trust and safety in the AI era, including AI agents, child safety, moderation, physical AI governance, emerging threats, and operational response.
Global AI Pulse Q2 2026
Surveys global organizations on AI adoption, deployment, value measurement, accountability, cost visibility, and the shift from experimentation to sustainable business value.
How Canada Uses Claude: Findings from the Anthropic Economic Index
Analyzes Canadian Claude usage patterns, including national adoption intensity, regional concentration, task mix, and distinctive use cases.
Aggregate Gains from AI and Their Distribution: Global Evidence from Usage Data
Uses Anthropic Economic Index waves to estimate aggregate productivity value and the distribution of AI gains across countries and occupations.
Skills in the AI Age
Examines how AI is transforming labor markets, changing skill requirements, and creating policy needs around upskilling, reskilling, productivity, and inclusion.
AI Agent Trends in Customer Experience 2026
Explores five agentic AI trends reshaping customer experience, including agents for employees, workflows, customers, security, and scale.
AI Agent Trends in Manufacturing 2026
Explores how agentic AI trends apply to manufacturing, including workflow agents, employee productivity, supply-chain orchestration, and security.
AI Agent Trends in Healthcare & Life Sciences 2026
Explores how agentic AI trends apply to healthcare and life sciences, including workflows, employees, customer and patient experiences, security, and scale.
Artificial Intelligence and Open Finance: Synergies, Trade-offs and Policy Implications
Analyzes how AI and open finance interact, including innovation, personalization, data sharing, concentration, risk management, and policy trade-offs.
Annual Economic Report 2026
Assesses global macroeconomic and financial-system risks, including vulnerabilities linked to the AI investment boom.
Anthropic Economic Index Report: Cadences
Uses Anthropic Economic Index data to study when and how people use Claude, including temporal patterns, work rhythms, and longer-running tasks.
The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex
Uses large-scale Codex usage data to analyze how agentic AI changes workflows, task complexity, delegation patterns, and work organization.
Intense AI Use Still Rare Among Euro Zone Firms
Summarizes ECB survey evidence showing that many euro-area firms report AI use, but only a small minority use it intensively.
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Enterprise Software User Roles
Examines how AI reshapes enterprise software roles, workflows, collaboration patterns, governance needs, oversight functions, and role taxonomies.
The AI Playbook for Financial Services
Presents global case studies and guidance on generative and agentic AI adoption across financial-services use cases, operating models, and risk controls.
The Open Source Economic Index of AI Adoption and Capability
Proposes an open-source method for measuring AI adoption and capability across occupations using public LLM interaction data and task benchmarks.
The AI Productivity Trap Report
Surveys office workers on AI productivity, workflow integration, tool choice, and the gap between casual AI use and fully embedded daily usage.
The AI-First Operating System: A Blueprint for Operating and Business Model Innovation
Explores how AI-first enterprises rethink business models, workflows, decision-making, operating cadence, and organizational design around intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Entry-Level Work
Provides a framework for safeguarding and reinventing early-career pathways as AI reshapes hiring, development, task allocation, and skill formation.
Asia's Human-led AI Opportunity: A Framework for Transformation
Presents a human-led AI transformation framework for Asia, focused on redesigning human roles, accountability, judgement, and governance around AI.
AI Adoption Across a Multinational Workforce: Sociotechnical Conditions for GenAI Acceptance in Human Resources
Studies GenAI adoption during a live HR-system transition, showing how trust, guidance, role context, language, tenure, and organizational knowledge quality affect use.
2026 AI Jobs Barometer
Analyzes global job advertisement data to show how AI exposure is reshaping skills, wages, entry-level roles, and workforce expectations.
AI Champions' AI Adoption Plans
Publishes independent AI adoption plans for key UK sectors, with recommendations for government, industry, and workers.
Shaping the Future of Learning: Education Readiness for the Age of AI
Introduces an AI readiness framework for education systems, covering governance, infrastructure, pedagogy, assessment, equity, and learner experience.
AI at Work: Strategy Matters More Than Tools
Presents BCG's 2026 AI at Work research on employee adoption, frontline usage, agentic AI, skill shifts, and the gap between tool access and organizational redesign.
The AI Jobs Transition Framework for the EU
Extends OpenAI's AI Jobs Transition Framework to the European labor market, mapping near-term job impacts and transition needs.
Where AI Agents Pay Off
Explores the economics of agentic workflows and how leaders can decide where AI agents are worth deploying.
AI Agents in Action: A Playbook for Trusted Adoption, Authorization and Scaling
Introduces a practical playbook for adopting and scaling AI agents, including authorization profiles, trusted deployment patterns, and governance controls.
Agentic AI in Industry: Adoption Level and Deployment Barriers
Studies industrial agentic AI adoption across companies and identifies maturity levels, deployment barriers, and verification gaps.
Building Resilient and Scalable AI Value Chains: A Nexus Strategy
Analyzes the AI-energy-water-minerals-land nexus and the systemic risks created by the physical infrastructure buildout behind AI.
AI Infrastructure in the Age of Sovereignty: Requirements, Strategies and a Trusted Framework for Digital Embassies
Examines sovereign AI infrastructure strategies, trusted partnerships, digital embassies, domestic capability, and infrastructure requirements for national AI resilience.
OpenAI B2B Signals
Introduces a business-focused extension of OpenAI Signals, measuring AI diffusion across organizations.
Responsible AI Needs More Than Good Intentions
Reports responsible AI survey findings, showing broad program adoption but limited maturity of operational frameworks.
2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report: Agents, Human Agency, and the Opportunity for Every Organization
Examines how AI agents are changing work design, human agency, and the operating model of frontier firms.
AI and Digital Trends 2026: Customer Engagement Spotlight
Looks at how organizations are preparing data, analytics, infrastructure, and teams for AI-driven customer engagement at scale.
Global AI Diffusion: Q1 2026 Trends and Insights
Tracks how AI adoption and usage are diffusing across countries, populations, and economic contexts.
The AI Jobs Transition Framework
Maps AI near-term impact on jobs and proposes a framework for preparing workers, employers, and institutions for transition.
The TradeTech Paradox: Connectivity Amid Fragmentation
Explores how technology, data, and AI are reshaping global trade amid geopolitical and institutional fragmentation.
Making Agentic AI Work for Government: A Readiness Framework
Provides a readiness framework for assessing agentic AI opportunities and risks in public-sector settings.
Generative AI at Work: From Exposure to Adoption across 35 European Countries
Uses the European Working Conditions Survey to examine GenAI adoption across 35 European countries and the gap between occupational exposure and real workplace use.
Strengthening Our Frontier Safety Framework
Updates DeepMind frontier safety framework, including expanded risk domains and refined risk assessment processes.
Governance by Design: Architecting Agentic AI for Organizational Learning and Scalable Autonomy
Explores how agentic AI governance is implemented through architecture, tool permissions, data access, memory design, feedback loops, and working arrangements.
Intelligent Industrial Operations Outlook 2026
Examines how AI, physical AI, quantum technologies, and connected systems are transforming industrial operations.
AI Performance Study: Want ROI from AI? Go for Growth
Shows how a small group of AI leaders capture disproportionate economic value by scaling AI for growth and reinvention.
Empowering SMEs in the Age of AI
Studies SME digital maturity, AI integration, skills, cybersecurity, sustainability tools, and government support.
Generative-AI and the Transformation of Workforce: A Job Postings-Driven Analysis
Analyzes AI-related skill demand in job postings using lexical extraction, semantic framing, topic modeling, clustering, and time-series forecasting.
Global Economic and Financial Implications of Artificial Intelligence
Uses scenario planning to assess AI possible effects on productivity, jobs, inequality, fiscal policy, and financial stability.
The 2026 AI Index Report
Provides a comprehensive data-driven overview of AI technical progress, economy, policy, public opinion, and responsible AI.
Global AI Pulse Q1 2026: From Adoption to Orchestration
Surveys senior executives globally on AI adoption, constraints, orchestration, value measurement, and scaling practices.
AI Agent Trends 2026
Identifies five major trends shaping agentic AI and enterprise transformation in 2026.
AI Agent Trends in Retail & CPG 2026
Explores agentic AI trends for retail and consumer packaged goods, including customer agents, workflow agents, and employee productivity.
State of AI Trust in 2026: Shifting to the Agentic Era
Examines responsible AI maturity, trust, governance, and agentic AI oversight as organizations move into the agentic era.
2026 AI and Digital Trends Consumer Report
Examines how consumers use and respond to AI across search, shopping, support, and customer journeys.
Organizational Transformation in the Age of AI: How Organizations Maximize AI's Potential
Explores how organizations embed AI into workflows, decision-making, operating models, and value creation.
OpenAI Signals Global Report
Uses privacy-preserving data to show how ChatGPT is being adopted and used across regions, age groups, and task types.
ChatGPT and the Price of Work
Analyzes how Americans use ChatGPT to close wage information gaps and make work-related economic decisions.
Nordic AI: Value Creation or Value Bubble?
Assesses Nordic companies AI and agentic AI engagement, investment levels, and risk of capturing only incremental gains.
The State of AI in the Enterprise 2026: The Untapped Edge
Tracks enterprise AI investment, adoption, scaling, business impact, and the shift from ambition to activation.
Responsible Scaling Policy Version 3.0
Updates Anthropic voluntary framework for managing catastrophic risks from increasingly capable AI systems.
Redacted Risk Report, February 2026
Publishes a risk report under Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy, covering model safety profile and evaluation findings.
The State of Organizations 2026: Three Tectonic Forces That Are Reshaping Organizations
Analyzes how technology innovation, economic disruption, and changing workforce structures are reshaping organizational performance.
2026 AI and Digital Trends Report
Explores how generative and agentic AI are reshaping customer experience, content, data, and digital strategy.
Responsible AI Progress Report 2026
Details Google responsible AI governance, risk management, agentic safety work, and frontier-risk practices.
OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026
Reviews evidence on generative AI in education and argues for purpose-built systems guided by teaching principles.
Building an AI-Ready Public Workforce
Outlines how public institutions can prepare employees, governance systems, and skills strategies for AI adoption.
Accenture Pulse of Change: The Human and AI Factor Will Define Success in 2026
Explores employee alignment, training, skill-building, and the human factors that determine whether organizations capture AI value.
The Global Risks Report 2026 (21st ed.)
Analyzes global risks across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, including technological and AI-related risk dynamics.
Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future: New Jobs Creation in the AI Age
Studies how new IT and AI skills affect labor markets, wages, job postings, and skills gaps across economies.
EU Economic Blueprint 2.0
Outlines policy recommendations for AI investment, skills, infrastructure, SMEs, and productivity in the European Union.
AI as a Scientific Collaborator
Explores how AI systems can support researchers in literature synthesis, coding, analysis, experimentation, and scientific discovery.
AI at Work: From Productivity Hacks to Organizational Transformation
Shows how organizations are moving from individual AI productivity use cases toward workflow redesign and reskilling.
New Future of Work Report 2025
Reviews research on AI, collaboration, collective productivity, and the design of work beyond individual productivity gains.
The State of AI: Global Survey 2025
Reports global survey findings on AI adoption, agentic AI, value capture, and the management practices linked to scaling impact.
The Fearless Future: 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer
Analyzes close to a billion job ads and company financial reports to assess AI effect on productivity, skills, wages, and jobs.
Technology Vision 2025: AI: A Declaration of Autonomy
Explores how autonomous AI affects technology development, customer experience, the physical world, and the workforce.
2025 Work Trend Index Annual Report: The Year the Frontier Firm Is Born
Explores how frontier firms are emerging by deeply integrating AI agents into operations.
AI Business Trends 2025
Outlines key GenAI trends shaping enterprise strategy in 2025.
Responsible AI Progress Report
Details updates on Google responsible AI practices, safety research, and transparency initiatives.
An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security
Proposes a safety strategy to manage risks from advanced AI systems.
AI in Action: Beyond Experimentation to Transform Industry
Explores the transformative role of AI across industries, highlighting case studies and strategic insights.
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
Provides a comprehensive overview of AI advancements, including performance benchmarks, publication trends, and responsible AI practices.
Building an AI-Ready Workforce: A Look at Student ChatGPT Adoption in the US
Analyzes how US students use ChatGPT and implications for education and workforce preparation.
Student Generative AI Survey 2025
Analyzes the surge in AI usage among students, with 92 percent incorporating AI tools into academic work.
Superagency in the Workplace: Empowering People to Unlock AI's Full Potential
Argues that successful AI use depends on amplifying human agency, not replacing it.
The Global Risks Report 2025 (20th ed.)
Explores top global threats, highlighting AI as a key technological and societal risk.
Q1 2025 AI Pulse Survey
Assesses organizational readiness for AI adoption, focusing on risk management, trust, and workforce preparedness.
2025 AI and Digital Trends
Highlights key trends in AI and digital transformation, emphasizing personalized customer experiences and data utilization.
2025 CDO Insights: Scaling Generative AI for Value
Provides strategies for Chief Data Officers to effectively scale generative AI initiatives.
A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI
Explores how AI can either exacerbate inequalities or enhance human development, depending on policy choices.
Artificial Intelligence and Productivity in Europe
Explores AI potential to boost productivity across European economies.
The future of AI-enabled health: Leading the way
Examines the transformative potential of AI in healthcare and the necessary frameworks for ethical implementation.
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
Analyzes how companies are restructuring to effectively implement and benefit from AI technologies.
2025 tech trends report (18th ed.)
Provides an extensive analysis of emerging technology trends, with a significant focus on AI advancements.
Power Hungry: How AI Will Drive Energy Demand
Analyzes the energy consumption consequences of widespread AI deployment.
AI trends and future impact
Discusses the transformative potential of AI in reshaping industries and economies, with a focus on India.
The Global Impact of AI: Mind the Gap
Analyzes uneven global AI impact, highlighting how effects vary by sectoral exposure, preparedness, and technology access.
Disrupting Malicious Uses of Our Models: An Update, February 2025
Outlines trends and case studies of AI-powered threats, including influence operations and surveillance activities.
Taking a Responsible Path to AGI
Discusses DeepMind approach to developing Artificial General Intelligence with a focus on safety, risk assessment, and collaboration.
Artificial Intelligence for Efficiency, Sustainability and Inclusivity in TradeTech
Illustrates the transformative role of AI in global trade, presenting current applications across supply chains, logistics, and compliance.
2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report: AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part
Presents findings on generative AI adoption in workplaces and leadership challenges in implementation.
New Future of Work Report 2024
Analyzes how AI transforms productivity, cognition, and collaboration in real-world work settings.
Unlocking the Economic Potential of the US Generative AI Ecosystem
Examines GenAI economic impact and ecosystem development in the United States.
AI and the Future of Work in Africa
Summarizes insights from a workshop on GenAI impact across African labor markets.
Transforming Public Sector Services Using Generative AI: Global Case Studies
Highlights how governments in Japan, Portugal, and Canada apply GenAI in public services.
Responsible AI Transparency Report 2024
Details Microsoft responsible AI governance practices and use cases.
Accelerate AI Transformation with Strong Security
Guides enterprises on secure AI adoption, highlighting risk and protection strategies.
Data & AI Trends Report 2024
Presents five emerging data and AI trends based on surveys and enterprise use.
End-to-End Responsibility: A Lifecycle Approach to AI
Outlines Google lifecycle approach to managing AI risks from design to deployment.
Our Life with AI: The Reality of Today and the Promise of Tomorrow
Presents global attitudes toward AI based on survey data from 17 countries.
Influence and Cyber Operations: An Update
Updates on how malicious actors exploit AI tools and how OpenAI counters such misuse.
Responsible Scaling Policy (Oct 15, 2024 Update)
Details thresholds and safeguards for deploying advanced AI capabilities.
AI in Action 2024: Insights from the Global AI Adoption Index
Presents findings from a global survey of organizations on AI maturity and adoption strategies.
Where's the Value in AI?
Explores which practices generate value from AI at scale and why many companies struggle.
AI at Work in 2024: Friend and Foe
Examines executive and employee sentiment on generative AI workplace impact.
The State of AI: How Organizations Are Rewiring to Capture Value
Presents McKinsey midyear survey on enterprise AI adoption and transformation efforts.
Technology Report 2024: Technology Meets the Moment as AI Delivers Results
Analyzes how AI is shifting tech strategy, spend, and ROI expectations across sectors.
The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise: 2024 Year-End Report
Tracks GenAI implementation across enterprises and explores value realization challenges.
Technology Vision 2024: Human by Design
Describes how AI can enable deeper human-centric design across industries and roles.
The Global Risks Report 2024 (19th ed.)
Analyzes systemic global risks, including technological disruption from rapid AI growth.
Using AI in the Workplace: Opportunities, Risks and Policy Responses
Presents data from thousands of workers and firms across countries on AI workplace impact.
2024 US Responsible AI Survey
Shares insights from 1,001 US executives on AI governance, adoption, and risk management.
AI Jobs Barometer 2024
Assesses the changing landscape of jobs influenced by AI across economies.
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative AI Supplement
Offers a supplemental guide to NIST AI risk framework, focused on GenAI.
Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Explores how GenAI might affect employment and labor market structures worldwide.
Projecting AI's Long-Term Impact on the US Fiscal Outlook
Analyzes AI fiscal implications, including productivity gains and long-term budget shifts.