Europe lags behind the US in AI adoption - 43% of US respondents use it in their work. 32% in Europe
Europe may be slower to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) than the United States because of the way its businesses are structured, according to a new study. The report from the Brookings Institution surveyed more than 5,000 people in the United States and six European countries to find out how regularly they use artificial intelligence at work: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and the United Kingdom in June 2025 and February 2026.
The study measures both company-level integration and individual use of AI in the workplace. It then compared this data with the US Business Register and the European Survey on the Use of ICT and E-Commerce in Enterprises to find out how people are using AI at work.
US companies are more likely to integrate AI into daily operations, with around 34% using AI for any purpose, compared to an average of 20% across the EU. At an individual level, 43% of US respondents say they use AI in their work, compared to 32% in Europe in 2026.
The EU-US gap widens with companies using AI only for manufacturing; seven percent of manufacturing companies in the US have already integrated AI compared to just four percent in Europe.
Adoption by workers in Europe varies, with 36% of respondents in the UK saying they use it for work and 35.6% in both Sweden and the Netherlands.
Italy had the lowest adoption rate of the European countries surveyed, with only one in four respondents saying they had adopted AI at work. The report also says adoption is stalling in France and Germany, where 28% and 31% of respondents respectively use AI at work.
This means that AI adoption in the US ranges between 18% and 68% higher than in Europe, the study found. The researchers suggest that the biggest difference between the use of AI by US and European companies is their management structure.
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