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We still don’t know how people are really using AI

Source
MIT Technology Review - AI Topic
Source link
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai
Published
2026-08-18 10:06:43
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-18 11:11:00
Category
Procurement Technology & AI
Geography
Global
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.  “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka Reuel, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research…

Procurement Relevance Gate

FAIL — score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-08-18 11:11:00
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

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