{"id":141468,"date":"2025-09-16T16:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141468\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:07:06","slug":"openai-reveals-how-most-people-are-using-chatgpt-science-climate-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141468\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI reveals how most people are using ChatGPT | Science, Climate & Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people are using ChatGPT to ask questions and get advice, new data from its developer OpenAI has revealed.<\/p>\n

Although AI bots can do anything from coding to drafting emails or even helping users to imagine and play, around 49% of the requests sent to ChatGPT since November 2022 were people asking the bot questions and looking for information.<\/p>\n

The report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and OpenAI is the biggest study of its kind and draws from the huge amount of data collected by OpenAI<\/a> – around 10% of the world’s population is now thought to use the AI<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n

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Although there was a steady growth in people using ChatGPT for work-related queries, more than 70% of all usage was non-work related, according to the report.<\/p>\n

There’s also been a shift in who is using AI tools.<\/p>\n

Early adopters of AI tended to be men, with around 80% of weekly users having typically masculine first names in the months after ChatGPT was released.<\/p>\n

By June 2025, however, users were more likely to have typically female first names, something the authors described as a “dramatic shift”.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic AI, which runs the Claude AI chatbot, also released its own data on how customers are using AI.<\/p>\n

It found that the use of AI strongly correlated with average incomes.<\/p>\n

More affluent nations like Singapore and Canada were at the top end of countries using AI, while emerging economies like Indonesia, India and Nigeria, used Claude less.<\/p>\n

In the US, economic differences even played out at state level, and Claude researchers found that adoption of the technology rose faster with income.<\/p>\n

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Each 1% increase in state GDP was associated with a 1.8% increase in usage of AI.<\/p>\n

Usage also reflected what those areas were best known for; in California, Claude was often used to help with IT problems, in Florida, it was used for financial services and in Washington DC it was used for document editing and career assistance.<\/p>\n

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AI literacy consultant Sarah J Lundrigan posted about the two reports, saying the “blunt truth” is: “If you’re still treating AI as ‘something to try later,’ you’re behind.<\/p>\n

“The value isn’t in futuristic features – it’s in solving today’s friction points.<\/p>\n

“The winners will be the ones who can simplify adoption, reduce overwhelm, and make AI part of how people work and live.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people are using ChatGPT to ask questions and get advice, new data from its developer OpenAI has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}