OpenAI Economic Research rolls out data for researchers to explore questions on AI and labor more deeply
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Today, OpenAI is releasing OpenAI Signals data that explores 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how consumers use ChatGPT for work.
Key facts
- The data is represented quarterly, spanning a period from the first quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026
- OpenAI Economic Research releases data for researchers to explore questions on AI and labor more deeply
- 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
- Their new data draws on O*NET, a standardized framework that groups occupation-specific tasks into broader categories of work activities shared across occupations
Summary
OpenAI Economic Research releases data for researchers to explore questions on AI and labor more deeply. Researchers can use this data to explore how ChatGPT use for work differs across countries, track changes over time, and match this data to other economic indicators. Their new data draws on O*NET, a standardized framework that groups occupation-specific tasks into broader categories of work activities shared across occupations. The interactive chart below can be used to explore these work activities within a specific country over time, moving from broad activity groups to more specific activities. Connecting this data to IWAs revealed that work-related use became less concentrated in the most common activities.