State of the Prompt
Subjects
Health is the biggest subject
One conversation in ten is mainly about health and medicine, ahead of work and of making images.
Rutgers University · School of Communication and Information
A year of what people ask AI
An opt-in panel of 73,852 people in the United States shared their ChatGPT conversations with researchers for twelve months. We study what they asked, who asked it, and when.
Each wedge is one hour of the day, in the panelist’s local time; its length is that hour’s share of the day’s conversations.
65,689adults in these figures
3.4 millionconversations analyzed
12 monthsJuly 2025 to June 2026
28subjects of conversation
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Latest insights
Education
School questions follow the school calendar
Questions about schoolwork climb in late August, dip at Thanksgiving, fall by half over winter break, and fade again in the summer.
Time of day
Work fills the morning; health comes before dawn
Work questions peak in the middle of the morning, at about one conversation in nine. Health peaks around 5 and 6 am, at about one in eight.
Over the year
The year, in questions
Each line is a subject’s weekly share of conversations against its own yearly average. School follows the school calendar, sports follow the big games, and politics follows the news.
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Explore the data
Each square is one in every hundred conversations, colored by the category of its main subject.
Reports
All reportsKey takeaways
- One conversation in ten is mainly about health and medicine (10.2%), the largest of 28 subjects.
- Nearly half of the people in the study (49%) had at least one conversation that touched on health.
- Four in five health conversations ask a question (80%); few ask ChatGPT to write or produce something (6%).
Key takeaways
- About one conversation in thirteen involves politics, government or law (7.8%).
- Personal matters outnumber public debate: 53% of political conversations concern the person’s own taxes, benefits, papers or legal situation, against 43% about society at large.
- Nearly half of the people in the study (47%) had at least one political conversation.