JANSON launches study on whether AI training is keeping up with adoption

JANSON Research & Strategy is recruiting U.S. organizational leaders for a national study on whether workforce training is matching AI adoption across sectors and maturity levels. The survey runs through Nov. 30 and aims to capture both active AI users and organizations with little or no formal AI activity.

Why it matters: - AI is already embedded in many workplace systems, so training gaps now affect day-to-day performance, governance, and risk across organizations. - The study aims to measure whether access to AI tools is being matched by the judgment, procedures, and role-specific skills employees need to use them responsibly. - Including organizations with little or no AI activity could produce a broader benchmark than research focused only on early adopters.

What happened: - JANSON Research & Strategy launched a national study called "Ready or Not: A national study of how organizations are — and aren’t — training their people for AI. Every sector, every size, every level of AI maturity." - The Colorado research firm is recruiting U.S.-based leaders from organizations at every stage of AI maturity. - Participation is open through Nov. 30, 2026. - U.S.-based organizational leaders can participate at the study page.

The details: - Eligible respondents include executives and leaders in learning and development, human resources, operations, and similar roles. - Respondents must have visibility into their organization’s AI tools, policies, or training. - Multiple leaders from the same organization may participate. - The core questionnaire takes about five minutes. - Participants can answer four optional open-ended questions after the main survey. - Participation is voluntary and anonymous. - Respondents who opt in separately may receive the national benchmark report before public release. - The study is designed to include organizations with mature AI programs, informal employee use, AI tools but no formal training, deliberate non-adoption, or no AI activity at all. - JANSON says the project will examine the training architecture between AI access and an organization’s ability to use it consistently and responsibly. - The study follows JANSON Research & Strategy’s 2026 project, "The Currency of Credentials," which examined quality, assessment, relevance, AI practice, and value across professional credential and certification programs.

Between the lines: - Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI in the Enterprise reported that worker access to AI rose 50% during 2025, while organizations identified the AI skills gap as their largest barrier to integration. - Deloitte also reported that only 21% of surveyed organizations had mature governance models for agentic AI. - Monte Carlo found that 64% of enterprise technology leaders and practitioners said their organizations had deployed AI agents faster than their teams felt prepared to support them. - Among developers and engineers closest to those systems, that figure rose to 75%. - Those findings support JANSON’s view that deployment is moving faster than workforce readiness, even among technical teams. - Dr. Elisa Janson Jones, principal investigator and founder of JANSON Research & Strategy, said AI literacy is no longer a discretionary workforce competency. - Jones said the study is meant to capture contextual judgment, procedural fluency, governance alignment, and role-specific training, not just tool access. - Jones also said organizations without formal AI training are part of the condition the study is trying to understand, not outliers to exclude. - The company says recent agentic AI incidents have made the gap between technical access and organizational readiness impossible to ignore. - JANSON says workforce capability and governance become inseparable once AI can act through connected systems.

What’s next: - JANSON will compile responses into a national benchmark report. - Leaders who opt in separately may receive the report before it is publicly released. - The company is still collecting responses from organizations across sectors and AI maturity levels.

The bottom line: - JANSON is trying to answer a practical question facing employers: whether AI adoption is being matched by the training needed to use it safely, consistently, and at scale.