OpenAI Launches 165 ChatGPT Professional Activities in 100 Countries

OpenAI releases quarterly data linking the professional use of ChatGPT to 165 work activities, from Q1 2025 to Q3 2026. In 74 monitored countries, the share of the ten most frequent activities decreased from 56.0% to 51.1%, indicating increased specialization. The series is based on O*NET, excludes enterprise use and Codex, and incorporates privacy guarantees. A comparison with American jobs reveals a significant gap, particularly due to the 43% of tasks categorized as "Other IWAs."

Less Concentration and Increased Specialization Measured Between Q1 2025 and Q3 2026

Within the 74 countries monitored each quarter, the average share of the top ten activities in work-related messages by country fell from 56.0% in Q1 2025 to 51.1% in Q3 2026. The association of uses with activity categories highlights a decrease in the share occupied by the most frequent tasks. Countries tend to specialize over time, and these specializations differ from one country to another. OpenAI indicates that these discrepancies may be due to the nature of tasks performed locally or differences in access to AI tools.

Scope and Privacy: Data from Individual Subscriptions, Enhanced Protections

The corpus covers work-related messages from individual ChatGPT plans and excludes enterprise use as well as Codex. To protect privacy, conversations are not read by researchers. Automated systems classify messages after removing identifying information. OpenAI publishes aggregated statistics, withholds results for small groups, and adds statistical noise to preserve confidentiality. The OpenAI Signals initiative is dedicated to sharing evidence of AI usage.

Gaps with American Employment: 43% of Tasks in "Other IWAs"

The comparison with IWAs allows for a comparison between messages addressed to ChatGPT and activities performed in jobs in the United States. The corresponding charts reveal a clear difference between the use of ChatGPT for professional purposes and the tasks actually executed in the U.S. economy. These distributions show significant disparities, particularly because approximately 43% of the total weighted tasks for the listed American occupations fall under the category "Other IWAs," which is not detailed individually. This category includes, for example, the movement of materials, vehicle operation, or management of medical or health records—areas that have not reached a sufficient level of representation in the initial American ChatGPT sample.

Quarterly Series, 165 Activities, and a Country Exploration Tool

The published series are quarterly and cover from Q1 2025 to Q3 2026. They link the use of ChatGPT to 165 professional activities via IWAs, categories of tasks shared across occupations, based on the standardized O*NET framework. An interactive graphical tool allows for the analysis of a country's activities over time, transitioning from sets of activities to more detailed tasks, and observing the distribution of professional messages, which varies significantly by country. The types of usage recorded include the creation of educational materials, marketing content design, programming, and business data analysis. Researchers have the opportunity to compare developments from one country to another, observe dynamics, and relate this information to other economic data. OpenAI encourages the exploration of these resources and the formulation of new research questions based on these series.