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It seems that the average employee doesn't currently benefit from completing their job more efficiently; i.e., they have no interest in AI.

To accelerate mass AI adoption in workplaces, it may be necessary to expose the average worker to the risks and rewards of business ownership. However, it might be the case that the average worker simply doesn't want that risk.

If there's no risk, there can't be a reward. So I can't see a way AI adoption could be sped up.

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Your underlying assumption is that AI could allow workers to complete their jobs more efficiently if only they could be persuaded to use it. I'm not convinced this assumption is true right now (unless your job involves producing content-free marketing bullshit, in which case yes you ought to be worried).

Unfortunately, i don't have the cold hard data on what job complexity distribution looks like right now. But I don't think it's far fetched to assume that most days, most tasks people do are route and boring. Possibly a fraction of those tasks are amenable to AI-base acceleration. Who knows? But we do know (from that article) that people are hesitant to even try using AI.

Considering the amount of users chatGPT already has, presumably everyone who has boring/rote tasks that they want to automate has already tried this.

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