OpenAI Signals: ChatGPT work use spreads beyond top tasks

OpenAI Signals builds on the company's ongoing effort to share evidence about how people use AI. The release draws on O*NET, a standardized framework that groups occupation-specific tasks into broader categories, to connect ChatGPT usage to Intermediate Work Activities. This common framework lets researchers compare ChatGPT messages with activities performed across U.S. jobs, though the two distributions differ substantially—largely because about 43% of the employment-weighted task mix for mapped U.S. occupations falls into Other IWAs outside the individually reported categories, such as moving materials or maintaining health records. The data shows wide variation across countries in how people use ChatGPT for work, and OpenAI invites researchers to connect it with other sources to investigate what these patterns mean for workers and businesses.