State of the Prompt

Reports

What the conversations show

Each report takes one part of everyday AI use and follows it across groups of people and over the year.

Report 3

How Americans talk to AI about health and emotional support

October 2026

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Key takeaways

  • One conversation in five is about health when a classifier reads every one (22%), including emotional support.
  • Emotional support is the largest kind of health conversation (20%); the classic symptom or condition question is a quarter.
  • Mothers ask about a child’s health 2.6 times as often as fathers, comparing parents with parents.

Report 2

Politics on ChatGPT

October 2026

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Key takeaways

  • About one conversation in thirteen involves politics, government or law (7.8%).
  • 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.

Report 1

What Americans ask ChatGPT about health

October 2026

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Key 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%).