- Openai has just revealed the biggest chatgpt -Brugs survey in the story
- According to the results, 70% of chatgpt -users use it outside of work
- The study was conducted by Openai’s economic research team and Harvard -Economist David Deming
Open AI precisely revealed the results of its biggest ever chatgpt use survey, and the insight into how people interact with the AI-Chatbot is fascinating.
In the revealing study on his blog, Openai broke the results in three key picks: who uses chatgpt, what they use it for and how the use of AI develops over time.
The study was conducted by Openai’s economic research team and Harvard Economist David Deming for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
While Future (Techradar’s parent company) has conducted its own research into the past, which has provided a great insight into the wider population AI use, it provides information directly from the creators of the world’s most popular AI tool an excellent insight.
Here are three things we learned from the world’s largest study of chatgpt and how people use it.
1. Use holes close
According to Openai, the gender gap for users who take full advantage of chatgpt is closed dramatically over the years. Previous research in January 2024 showed by the users who had names that it was possible to classify as masculine or feminine, 37% had “typically feminine names.”
From July 2025, however, this figure is 52%. Now I have doubts about how Openai can really determine the gender of a user who interacts with chatgpt, but given the massive influx with the same criteria, it is reasonable to say that there is far less of a gender gap related to AI than ever before.
Elsewhere, Openai reports that the degree of adoption in countries with lowest income is 4 times faster than the richest.
2. How people use chatgpt
According to Openai, the main reason why people use chatgpt is to get things done, and “three -quarters of conversations focus on practical guidance, seeking information and writing.”
Openai breaks down how people use chatgpt in three categories: to ask, make and express. The study claims that almost half of all chatgpt -queries “asking” – where a user interacts with AI to get advice. 40% of the use is “to do” as “preparation of text, planning or programming”, and 11% of the use “expresses”, focused on “personal reflection, exploration and play.”
While this collapse may not surprise you, I think it is interesting to see that writing is actually the most common work assignment people use chat to. Frankly, it does not fill me much hope, especially considering that I spend hours and hours on my day writing without the help of AI.
3. Mostly play, less work
This part of the study is, in my opinion, the most exciting. In fact, I’m actually pretty shocked by the results. Openai claims that 70% of people use chatgpt in a non-work-related way, stating the study stating “Chatgpt helps improve judgment and productivity.”
Without this study, I would have honestly thought that most people use chatgpt in a work -based environment, specifically for everyday tasks that do not require much brain power. Instead, it seems that users are interacting with chatgpt after the office closes and in their spare time, highlighting how much AI has managed to infiltrate our daily lives.
You can read the full paper with even more statistics on the NBER site. Which result from this study do you find the most interesting? Tell us that in the comments below.
