THE CLAIM. a working paper from OpenAI's chief economist and coauthors at Columbia and Wharton documents enterprise AI adoption using ChatGPT Enterprise records: usage growing fast, adoption concentrated among larger, more valuable, R&D-intensive firms, and early-career workers using it hardest, across 1,500+ organizations and 17 million messages.

THE CHECK. the paper itself is the careful member of the family. It says its estimates describe conditional associations and should not be interpreted causally, covers only OpenAI's own product, and admits its job-title data is incomplete. The structural problem survives the hedging: the evidence is OpenAI's logs, analyzed by OpenAI, with no external access for auditing, and the sample is by construction OpenAI's paying customers. Meanwhile the companion marketing already converts the caution into momentum: token shares 'suggesting substantive, delegated work' and thirty-minutes-versus-two-weeks anecdotes.