Future of work
OpenAI releases data on how nearly 100 countries use ChatGPT for work
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- OpenAI Blog
Summary
OpenAI has released "OpenAI Signals" data that maps work-related ChatGPT conversations from individual plans onto 165 standardized Intermediate Work Activity categories. The quarterly dataset covers nearly 100 countries from Q1 2025 through Q3 2026, and researchers can download it and combine it with other economic indicators. The company's analysis shows that the share of the ten most common activities fell from 56.0% to an average of 51.1% across 74 countries, indicating that countries are specializing in different kinds of work over time. Enterprise messages and Codex use are not included, and OpenAI says aggregated statistics, withholding of small-group results, and added noise prevent identification of individual conversations.
Why it matters for our work
The data offers statistical evidence of which work activities people actually bring to AI across countries, useful for studying how work is changing and for workforce planning. The caveat is that it is a dataset collected and processed by the company itself.
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