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What do people ask AI?

Ask in plain words about a subject, a group of people, or a time of day or year. The answer is written in your browser from published totals; your question is not sent anywhere.

How answers are written

The question is matched word by word against lists of subjects, groups of people, times and purposes, and the answer is looked up in a table of shares published with this site. When something close to the question is shown instead, or part of it is left out, the answer says so. Figures cover conversations by adults (18 and over), and age groups use each person’s age in July 2026; a group appears only with at least 200 people and 2,000 conversations, and a share is withheld when too few conversations, or a handful of people, stand behind it.

Questions about a named person, place, product or other term are answered from mentions: how often the words appear in people’s own messages, per 1,000 conversations, whatever the conversation is about. Spelling variants and nicknames count; the answer lists them. A mention figure is published when at least 20 different people stand behind it, with the same five-person rule. Rates below 1 per 1,000 are shown to two decimals so that small differences are visible. To compare several terms over the year, ask “Compare Trump, Musk and Biden” or use Trends.

Shares are of conversations, so people who use ChatGPT heavily count for more. Times are the panelist’s local time. Politics means any conversation involving government, policy, law, elections or public figures, as in the politics report.