Source: Marginal REVOLUTION
A Financial Times survey of 4,000 US and UK workers shows AI tools concentrating among high earners: over 60% of top earners use AI regularly, while adoption rates decline steeply down the income ladder. Higher-wage workers gain productivity multipliers from ChatGPT, Claude, and specialized tools that lower-wage workers lack, automating the routine work that historically opened paths to better jobs. Without deliberate effort to distribute AI literacy and tool access downward, this skill gap will harden into structural wage inequality within 3-5 years.