How is AI actually being used. In this report (38 page PDF), which "analyzed each interaction to map it to its most relevant task category in the O*NET database... on a dataset of one million Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations," the authors find that most uses were for creating software and for writing. But there are some caveats. Doug Belshaw observes, "the occupational classification of a conversation does not necessarily mean the user was a professional in that field." Clearly. The report also notes that "our usage data cannot reveal how Claude's outputs are actually used in practice, and our reliance on O*NET's static occupational descriptions means we cannot account for entirely new tasks or jobs that AI might create." I think the next phase of research of this type will be to identify these new tasks or classifications, and in the long run, task descriptions will be generated entirely by AI.
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