ai adoption is actually shocking
🦞 OpenClaw is real and 7 billion people in the world have no clue what that is 👀
I read a stat the other day that, as much as we are living in an AI bubble
especially on LinkedIn, more than 80% of the world's population still hasn't used AI.
According to Microsoft’s Global AI Adoption 2025 research:
Only 16.3% of the world’s population uses generative AI
World population ≈ 8.1 billion 🌎
In a study by the European Commission, 32.7% of people aged 16–74 used generative AI in 2025.
In the Netherlands,
about 44% of people aged 17-74 have used AI in the past 3 months.
So every second person in NL has yet to experience the prompt box and communication with AI. I wonder what the percentage is in Amsterdam?
I've been meaning to post about the super insightful AI events I've been to over the last couple of weeks and already feel like what I saw – like at the OpenClaw demo last week at AI House in Amsterdam – feels like old news.
Then I saw this stat and I realised it's definitely not (old news).
Ironically I used AI to help me find the stat while I was drafting this post, and it led me to this page on the European Union website Eurostat.
And this report by McKinsey on AI adoption in companies.
I find it fascinating, hope you do too. I guess you wouldn’t have made it this far in the blog if you didn’t find this interesting.
I think it's an opportunity, and a blessing, that perhaps we still have time to positively influence the world, by shaping AI in a more ethically-minded way.
It's hard to be optimistic about whether that's a possibility based on what we've been seeing in the “AI race” on data security, the lack of diverse data we're training AI with, and most importantly the ones who are currently leading in the race.
Not as many diverse minds and ideas as we need to have at that level.
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