Google Releases ATLAS: 15M Real Human-AI Interactions Across 150 Countries
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-30
Google's AI & Economy Research Program has published its flagship output, ATLAS (Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study) v1.0 — billed as the most comprehensive look yet at how people actually use AI at scale.
- Built from 15 million de-identified human-AI interactions across the Gemini App, AI Mode, and Gemini API.
- Spans 150+ countries, 140 languages, 800 occupations, and 4,000 tasks, with interactive charts for exploration.
The program page also gathers related research with MIT, Ipsos, and DeepMind, covering whether AI assistance enhances or erodes expertise, AI's impact on entry-level jobs, evidence of AlphaFold 2's scientific impact, productivity experiments with Workspace and AI IDE features, economic policy for AGI, and virtual agent economies.
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