How people are using ChatGPT

OpenAI and Harvard economist David Deming released a study of 1.5 million ChatGPT conversations, framed as the largest consumer-usage analysis to date against ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users. The paper says feminine-name users rose from 37% in Jan 2024 to 52% in Jul 2025; 49% of messages were Asking, 40% Doing, 11% Expressing, and about 30% of usage was work-related. The shift to watch is distribution: by May 2025, adoption growth in the lowest-income countries was over 4x that of the highest-income countries, while the study covers consumer plans only.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the story has a strong hook, concrete usage splits, and clear relevance to workplace adoption and global diffusion. I stop at 82 because this is a consumer-usage study, not a model or product change, so it is high-signal context rather than same-day must-cover