AI genuinely speeds up the right tasks: writing, support, structured drafts. But in the wild the gains shrink to about 3% of your hours, they backfire on the wrong tasks, and almost none of it reaches a paycheck or a P&L. Here is what the research shows, and how to actually bank the part that is real. Economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard did something most AI productivity studies skip: they linked AI-adoption surveys of about 25,000 workers across 7,000 Danish workplaces to actual pay...