Public AI Observatory launches to measure real-world AI usage

ruthstarkman · x · 2026-08-20

Researchers from MIT, Stanford, and other institutions launched the Public AI Observatory, infrastructure for measuring how people actually use AI assistants. Initial findings suggest that an Anthropic-style occupational filter would classify 47.9% of real-world conversations as non-occupational.

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