The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on AI show the expansion of the  technology’s use since we began tracking it five years ago, but with a nuanced  picture underneath.1  Adoption has more than doubled since 2017, though the proportion of organizations using AI has plateaued between 50 and 60 percent for  the past few years. A set of companies seeing the highest financial returns from AI  continue to pull ahead of competitors. The results show these leaders making larger  investments in AI, engaging in increasingly advanced practices known to enable  scale and faster AI development, and showing signs of faring better in the tight  market for AI talent. On talent, for the first time, we looked closely at AI hiring and  upskilling. The data show that there is significant room to improve diversity on AI  teams, and, consistent with other studies, diverse teams correlate with outstanding  performance.