--- title: ONS: UK AI adoption tripled since 2023, but barely deepened description: A new ONS survey reveals UK business AI adoption has nearly tripled from 12% to 35% since 2023, but depth of use has barely moved — the average adopting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ons-uk-ai-adoption-tripled-since-2023-but-barely-deepened-snnogil07 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ONS: UK AI adoption tripled since 2023, but barely deepened | daily.dev og:description: A new ONS survey reveals UK business AI adoption has nearly tripled from 12% to 35% since 2023, but depth of use has barely moved — the average adopting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ons-uk-ai-adoption-tripled-since-2023-but-barely-deepened-snnogil07 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SnNoGIL07.png og:image:alt: ONS: UK AI adoption tripled since 2023, but barely deepened og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ONS: UK AI adoption tripled since 2023, but barely deepened **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A new ONS survey reveals UK business AI adoption has nearly tripled from 12% to 35% since 2023, but depth of use has barely moved — the average adopting business uses just 1.6 AI tools, up from 1.4. Large language models are the most widely deployed category at 18%, with information and communication sectors far ahead of labour-intensive industries. Scott Pope of Nexthink argues the gap between adoption and transformation is a culture and visibility problem: most organisations cannot track how AI is being used internally, leading to conservative rollouts. Only 7% of UK organisations pursue an enterprise-wide AI strategy, and while productivity gains are widely reported, only 12% of AI-using businesses report revenue growth. The UK government has committed £1.3 billion in AI hardware and a £200 million adoption package, but the data suggests the real barrier is organisational readiness, not funding or fear. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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