🧠 AI is everywhere — except in your paycheck.

A major new study by the University of Chicago and University of Copenhagen [📄 Working Paper No. 2025-56] looked at over 25,000 workers and 7,000 firms in Denmark. The goal? Measure how AI chatbots like ChatGPT affect real labor market outcomes.

The headline:

Despite massive adoption, AI has had no significant effect on wages, working hours, or employment — not even for daily power users.

But here’s where it gets interesting:

✅ AI is changing how we work:

83% of workers use chatbots when employers encourage it.

8.4% report new job tasks created by AI.

Most users save ~25 minutes per usage day and reallocate that time to other work.

❗ Yet it’s not (yet) changing who works or how much they earn:

Productivity gains are modest (avg. 2.8% time savings).

Only 3–7% of those gains trickle down into higher pay.

No reduction in hiring, but also no boost in earnings.

Firms quietly freeze hiring and extract more from existing staff — an invisible shift.

📌 The real takeaway:
AI isn’t killing jobs — it’s redefining roles, shifting expectations, and raising the bar for those who stay.

🛡️ Your job is safe for the moment.
🚀 But playing it safe means upskilling with AI — because:

“AI won’t take your job (yet). But someone using AI will.”