Private life beats the work in research on Chatgpt: in this way the evolution of the questions addressed to the artificial intelligence model of Openai in the last 3 years could be summarized. This is what emerges from the report “How People Use Chatgpt“, The first published by Openai, and coordinated by Harvard’s economist David Der demento on the basis of 1.5 million conversations between November 2022 (when the model was launched) and July 2025.
In fact, artificial intelligence is becoming less and less supporting our work activities (which now cover only 30% of requests), while the daily use of AI grows to receive advice, information or decision -making support. Moreover, Chatgpt has now become a technology that we use daily, like search engines: in the last year, among other things, the AI has spread much faster in medium-low income countries than the rest of the world. In the meantime, the gender gap, with the number of female and male users who has almost reached equality, has thinned, while the under 26 grow who ask for support for school tasks.
In general, however, AI has become a real assistant of our personal life: not surprisingly, the majority of requests (about 70%) has to do with themes of “practical guide”, which include advice on nutrition, fitness or personal care.
How the use of chatgpt is changing
That artificial intelligence is entering more and more in our lives is a fact: but how is it changing the way we use chatgpt? According to the report conducted by Openai, research increasingly concern everyday life: only 30% of the questions, in fact, has to do with work, while the vast majority of requests (70%, precisely) falls within the category of “practical guides”, which include advice on personal life and on materials such as fitness, health and personal care.
This evolution in the use of artificial intelligence – which is becoming a real personal assistant from working support, to which to contact for any topic – is also clearly visible in the graph above: between July 2024 and June 2025 the advice and “practical guides” have become the first topic of conversation with the artificial intelligence model (28.8% of requests). In second place, however, the search for information (24.4%), while the advice on writing (for the revision of texts, the writing of email or summaries) fell to third place (23.9%), recording a drop of almost 12 percentage points in less than a year.
Who are users who use the Openii model
Users who use chatgpts are also classified within the report: from the age of age, a division between under 26 emerges, which use artificial intelligence mostly as a learning tool (to receive simplified explanations or help for school tasks), and over 26, which instead turn to the Openai model mainly for work and for decision -making activities.
From the point of view of the genre, however, the gender gap in the use of the AI was reduced: in the first half of 2025, in fact, the number of female and male users almost reached equality. Nonetheless, still differences in requests remain: men tend to ask for support for technical work or topics related to the multimedia world, while women turn to chatgpt for advice related to writing and “practical guides”.
But one of the most interesting elements is certainly that of the country of origin: between May 2024 and May 2025, the use of Openai’s intelligence has spread much faster in medium-low income countries (with a pil-pro-bench between 10,000 and 40,000 dollars). In general, however, the AI is rapidly spreading all over the world, with chatgpt that at the end of July 2025 had more than 700 million active weekly users, about 10% of the world adult population.
Finally, the research operates a distinction between people with a university title and users with a high school diploma (or a lower title): if, on the one hand, the most educated people still tend to use artificial intelligence for work reasons, on the other, those who own a lower degree qualification are aimed at chatgpt for the search for information or advice that help the user to be better informed or make better decisions.
