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Appendix · The Stats

Every number, and where it came from.

This is the source of record for What 359 million companies want from AI. Every figure in the report is reproduced here with the study it was drawn from. Compiled and published by Loom; the underlying voices are adapted from a public Anthropic study, and the usage, adoption and sentiment figures come from the named research below.

359Mcompanies operating worldwide (Statista / global estimates)
30Mone-person businesses in the US alone (US Census, 2023)
78%of organizations use AI in ≥1 function (McKinsey, 2025)

What people use AI for

Share of consumer AI usage by activity. A handful of everyday tasks — writing, studying and getting answers — dominate; coding and images stay niche.

Source: OpenAI, “How People Use ChatGPT” (2025), 700M-user analysis; The Washington Post breakdown (2025).

Who uses AI

Generative-AI adoption is lopsided by group and by region. Students are the heaviest users of all; the Global North uses AI at nearly double the rate of the Global South.

Source: OECD, AI use by individuals (2025); Microsoft AI Economy Institute, Global AI Adoption (2025).

What people worry about most

Share of US adults naming each as a top concern about AI. Job loss leads every poll, followed by over-reliance, privacy and misinformation.

Source: Anthropic Public Record (2025); Pew Research (2025); Searchlight Institute (2025).

How wary of AI each region is

Share of people who are more wary than excited about AI. Wariness is highest in the wealthy English-speaking world and Western Europe, and lowest across Asia, Latin America and Africa — where people are far more likely to see AI as more help than harm.

Source: Ipsos AI Monitor (2024), regional aggregation.
RegionWary of AISee AI as net positive

Full sources

Everything above, with a link to the original research.

  1. Consumer AI usage — OpenAI, “How People Use ChatGPT” (2025), and The Washington Post’s analysis of usage categories (2025).
  2. Individual adoption (OECD) — OECD, AI use by individuals surges across the OECD (2025).
  3. Global adoption — Microsoft AI Economy Institute, Global AI Adoption in 2025.
  4. Sentiment by country — Ipsos, AI Monitor 2024.
  5. US attitudes & concerns — Pew Research Center, how Americans view AI (2026); Searchlight Institute (2025); Anthropic Public Record (2025).
  6. The voices & survey — Anthropic, What 81,000 people want from AI — the open-ended interview study the quoted voices are adapted from.
  7. Company counts — Statista global company estimates; US Census Bureau nonemployer businesses (2023); SBA Office of Advocacy.
  8. Solo founders — Carta founder-team data (solo-founder share, 2019→2025).
A note on method: figures are reported as published. Where surveys measure slightly different things year to year, we label the metric. Regional sentiment is aggregated from country-level Ipsos data and is illustrative. All framing and presentation here are original to Loom.