The numbers behind the choice
AI Writing Statistics 2026
This page collects figures on AI writing tools: who uses them, what they write with them, how much time they save, how satisfied users are, what the tools cost and how reliable the output is. Most figures cover the United States, with comparison points from the UK, the EU and a six-country Reuters Institute survey. Most data come from 2025 and 2026 surveys and usage studies; a few controlled experiments from 2023 are included and labeled with their year.
By the KeenVerdict research desk · Updated November 4, 2026 · 51 figures from 21 sources
56 of 56 source quotes re-checked against the original pages on November 4, 2026
The short answer
About half of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots and 44% use ChatGPT, according to Pew Research Center's 2026 survey. Writing is the top work task on ChatGPT at 40% of work-related messages, per an NBER working paper, and ACSI rates AI platforms at 73 out of 100 for satisfaction, with Google Gemini on top at 76.
Key figures
- 44%44% of U.S. adults said they use ChatGPT in Pew's February 2026 survey, up from 34% a year earlier.Pew Research Center
- 52%52% of U.S. employees used AI at work at least a few times a year as of May 2026, and 15% used it daily.Gallup
- 40%Writing accounted for 40% of work-related ChatGPT messages on average in June 2025, the most common work use case, according to the NBER working paper.National Bureau of Economic Research
- 40 percentIn a 2023 MIT experiment with professionals doing writing tasks, access to ChatGPT cut the time taken by 40% and raised output quality, as rated by independent evaluators, by 18%. No larger controlled study of the same kind has replaced it.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 19%In the same 2023 Harvard Business School experiment, consultants using AI were 19% less likely to reach a correct solution on a complex task chosen to be outside AI's abilities.Harvard Business School
- 76Google Gemini led AI platforms on satisfaction with an ACSI score of 76 in 2026, ahead of Microsoft Copilot at 74 and ChatGPT and Claude at 73.American Customer Satisfaction Index
- 94%94% of UK full-time undergraduates said they use generative AI to help with assessed work in HEPI's 2026 survey of 1,054 students, fielded in December 2025.Higher Education Policy Institute
- 45%45% of AI assistant answers about news had at least one significant issue in a 2025 study by 22 public broadcasters in 18 countries.BBC and European Broadcasting Union
Our reading of the data
AI writing tools are now widely used. Pew Research Center found 44% of U.S. adults used ChatGPT in early 2026, up from 34% a year earlier, and Gallup puts workplace use at 52% of U.S. employees at least a few times a year. The Reuters Institute found weekly use of generative AI nearly doubled in one year across six countries, to 34%. Business use is lower in Europe: Eurostat found 8.8% of EU enterprises used AI to generate written or spoken language in 2025.
Writing is a core work use. An NBER working paper puts writing at 40% of work-related ChatGPT messages in June 2025, and 52% for users in management and business jobs, although writing's share of all ChatGPT messages fell from 36% to 24% over the year to July 2025. Pew's worker survey found editing (52%) and drafting (47%) were among the most common work uses of chatbots, after research.
The productivity evidence is real but varies by method. A 2023 MIT experiment cut writing time by 40% and raised quality by 18%, and the 2023 Harvard Business School study of BCG consultants found 25.1% faster work on tasks inside AI's abilities, but 19% fewer correct answers on a task outside them. Survey-based time savings are smaller, about 5.4% of work hours in research by St. Louis Fed economists, while Gallup found 65% of employees in AI-using organizations report a positive effect on productivity.
Satisfaction and trust lag adoption. ACSI scores AI platforms at 73 out of 100, though premium subscribers score ChatGPT at 80 and Gemini at 82. A BBC and EBU study found 45% of AI answers about news had at least one significant issue, and a 2023 Stanford study showed AI detectors flagged 61.22% of essays by non-native English writers as AI-generated.
How many people use AI writing tools
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44% of U.S. adults said they use ChatGPT in Pew's February 2026 survey, up from 34% a year earlier.
Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (Jun 2026)
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A little under half of U.S. adults (44%) now report using the chatbot, up from 34% last year.
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In Pew's February 2026 survey, 12% of U.S. adults said they use AI chatbots several times a day and 4% almost constantly; Pew puts daily use at about a quarter of adults.
Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (Jun 2026)
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This includes 12% who say they do so several times a day and 4% who use these tools almost constantly.
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57% of U.S. adults under 50 used ChatGPT in 2026, compared with 28% of those 50 and older.
Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (Jun 2026)
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Adults under 50 are about twice as likely as those ages 50 and older to report using ChatGPT (57% vs. 28%).
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38% of employed U.S. adults said they use AI chatbots for tasks at work in 2026.
Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (Jun 2026)
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38% of employed adults report using chatbots for tasks at work.
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Across the six countries in the Reuters Institute's 2025 survey, weekly use of generative AI nearly doubled from 18% to 34% of adults in a year.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025)
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Across countries, the proportion of people who say they have ever used any AI system rose from 40% (2024) to 61% (2025); weekly use nearly doubled from 18% to 34%.
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22% of adults across the six countries surveyed by the Reuters Institute used ChatGPT weekly in 2025, the most of any AI system.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025)
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ChatGPT is the single most popular AI system with 22% weekly usage, though adoption varies significantly by age.
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52% of U.S. employees used AI at work at least a few times a year as of May 2026, and 15% used it daily.
Gallup, Indicator: Artificial Intelligence (2026)
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As of May 2026, 15% of U.S. employees use AI daily in their role, 30% use it a few times a week or more, and 52% use it a few times a year or more.
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20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used AI technologies in 2025.
Eurostat, 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies (Dec 2025)
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In 2025, 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to conduct their business
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8.8% of EU enterprises used AI to generate written or spoken language in 2025.
Eurostat, 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies (Dec 2025)
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This was followed by AI use to generate pictures, videos, sound/audio (9.5%), written or spoken language (8.8%) and to convert spoken language into machine-readable format (7.2%).
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ChatGPT had been adopted by around 10% of the world's adult population by July 2025, according to an NBER working paper analyzing ChatGPT consumer usage.
National Bureau of Economic Research, How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025)
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We document the growth of ChatGPT's consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it had been adopted by around 10% of the world's adult population.
What people actually write with AI
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Writing accounted for 40% of work-related ChatGPT messages on average in June 2025, the most common work use case, according to the NBER working paper.
National Bureau of Economic Research, How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025)
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Writing is the most common use case at work, accounting for 40% of work-related messages on average in June 2025.
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Writing fell from 36% of all ChatGPT consumer messages in July 2024 to 24% in July 2025.
National Bureau of Economic Research, How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025)
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Writing has declined from 36% of all usage in July 2024 to 24% a year later.
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For ChatGPT users in management and business occupations, writing made up 52% of work-related messages in the NBER analysis of 2025 data.
National Bureau of Economic Research, How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025)
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Writing is especially common for users employed in management and business occupations, accounting for 52% of all work-related messages.
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About 30% of consumer ChatGPT use was work-related in 2025, with the other 70% personal.
OpenAI, How people are using ChatGPT (Sep 2025)
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Approximately 30% of consumer usage is work-related and approximately 70% is non-work
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Among U.S. workers who had used AI chatbots for work, 52% had used them to edit written content and 47% to draft it (survey fielded October 2024).
Pew Research Center, U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace (Feb 2025)
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Among those who've used AI chatbots for work, the most common uses are research (57% have used them for this), editing written content (52%) and drafting written content (47%).
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Only 16% of U.S. workers said at least some of their work was done with AI in late 2024.
Pew Research Center, U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace (Feb 2025)
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About one-in-six workers (16%) say at least some of their work is currently done with AI.
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Among Gen Z AI users in the U.S., 39% used AI to write longer pieces and 35% to draft emails in 2026.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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They use AI for drafting emails (35%), writing longer pieces (39%), data analysis (27%), and games and entertainment (24%).
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Only 8% of Baby Boomer AI users in the U.S. used AI for longer writing in 2026.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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Longer writing (8%) and data analysis register far lower, a pattern consistent with treating AI as a high-powered search engine rather than a work tool.
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Directive conversations, where users hand Claude a complete task, rose from 27% to 39% of Claude.ai conversations by August 2025.
Anthropic, Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption (Sep 2025)
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Users are entrusting Claude with more autonomy: "Directive" conversations, where users delegate complete tasks to Claude, jumped from 27% to 39%.
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Most common work uses of AI chatbots among U.S. workers who use them
U.S. workers who have used AI chatbots for work, survey fielded October 2024.
- Research57%
- Editing written content52%
- Drafting written content47%
Source: Pew Research Center, U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace
Productivity: what the evidence shows
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In a 2023 MIT experiment with professionals doing writing tasks, access to ChatGPT cut the time taken by 40% and raised output quality, as rated by independent evaluators, by 18%. No larger controlled study of the same kind has replaced it.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks (Jul 2023)
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Access to the assistive chatbot ChatGPT decreased the time it took workers to complete the tasks by 40 percent, and output quality, as measured by independent evaluators, rose by 18 percent.
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In a 2023 Harvard Business School field experiment with BCG consultants, those using AI completed 12.2% more of 18 realistic knowledge tasks and finished them 25.1% faster on average.
Harvard Business School, Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (Sep 2023)
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subjects using AI outperformed those not using AI, completing 12.2% more tasks and completing them 25.1% more quickly on average while also delivering solutions of significantly improved quality.
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In the same 2023 Harvard Business School experiment, consultants using AI were 19% less likely to reach a correct solution on a complex task chosen to be outside AI's abilities.
Harvard Business School, Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (Sep 2023)
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However, for a complex managerial task selected to be outside the frontier, subjects using AI were 19% less likely to produce correct solutions compared with those without AI, pointing to potential limitations of AI supporting knowledge workers.
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Generative AI users in the U.S. reported saving 5.4% of their work hours on average, about 2.2 hours in a 40-hour week, in research by St. Louis Fed economists.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Generative AI, Productivity and the Future of Work (Oct 2025)
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Among their findings: On average, generative AI users reported saving time amounting to 5.4% of their work hours, or roughly 2.2 hours per week in a 40-hour work week.
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65% of U.S. employees in organizations that have implemented AI said it improved their productivity as of May 2026.
Gallup, Indicator: Artificial Intelligence (2026)
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As of May 2026, 65% of employees working in organizations that have implemented AI say it has had a positive effect on their productivity and efficiency at work
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Only 14% of U.S. employees in AI-using organizations strongly agreed in 2026 that AI has transformed how work gets done.
Gallup, Indicator: Artificial Intelligence (2026)
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As of May 2026, 14% of employees in organizations that have implemented AI strongly agree it has transformed how work gets done in their organization.
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29% of U.S. workers who used AI chatbots for work said they were extremely or very helpful for improving work quality, fewer than said so for speed (survey fielded October 2024).
Pew Research Center, U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace (Feb 2025)
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A smaller share (29%) say they have been equally helpful in improving the quality of their work
Satisfaction, trust and pricing
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AI platforms scored 73 out of 100 for customer satisfaction in ACSI's 2026 survey of 2,711 U.S. adults.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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overall customer satisfaction is an ACSI score of 73 (on a scale of 0 to 100), according to a new survey of 2,711 U.S. adults
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Google Gemini led AI platforms on satisfaction with an ACSI score of 76 in 2026, ahead of Microsoft Copilot at 74 and ChatGPT and Claude at 73.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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Google Gemini leads all platforms at 76, followed by Microsoft Copilot (74), Claude and ChatGPT (73 apiece), and Grok and Perplexity (both at 71).
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Among premium subscribers, ChatGPT scored 80 and Google Gemini 82 on the ACSI scale in 2026, above the platform average of 73.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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Among premium subscribers, ChatGPT jumps to a score of 80 and Google Gemini reaches 82.
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Gen Z gave AI platforms the lowest satisfaction score of any U.S. generation in 2026, at 69 compared with 74 for older groups.
American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026)
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Despite that engagement, Gen Z posts the lowest satisfaction score of any generation at 69, against 74 for Millennials, Gen X, and Baby Boomers alike
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29% of adults across six countries said they trust ChatGPT in 2025, compared with 18% for Gemini and 12% for Copilot.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025)
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On average, 29% say they trust ChatGPT, ahead of Gemini (18%), Copilot (12%), and Meta AI (12%); most other brands are trusted by fewer than 10%, mostly due to low awareness.
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Microsoft raised U.S. prices for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family by $3 per month in January 2025 when it added Copilot.
Microsoft, Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family (Jan 2025)
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we're increasing the prices of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family in the US for the first time since its release by $3 USD per month
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Microsoft said in January 2025 that most of its 84 million consumer Microsoft 365 subscribers would get access to Copilot in Word and other apps.
Microsoft, Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family (Jan 2025)
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Most of our 84 million consumer subscribers will now have access to Copilot in Word
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Google cut the price of Workspace Business Standard with Gemini from $32 to $14 per user per month in January 2025 by including AI in the plan, $2 more than the plan without Gemini.
Google, The future of AI-powered work for every business (Jan 2025)
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For example, a customer using the Workspace Business Standard plan with a Gemini Business add-on previously paid $32 per user, per month. Now, that same customer will pay just $14 per user, per month — only $2 more than they were paying for Workspace without Gemini.
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Customer satisfaction with AI platforms, ACSI score out of 100, 2026
Survey of 2,711 U.S. adults, published April 2026.
- Google Gemini76
- Microsoft Copilot74
- Claude73
- ChatGPT73
- Grok71
- Perplexity71
Source: American Customer Satisfaction Index, ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026
Students and AI writing
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94% of UK full-time undergraduates said they use generative AI to help with assessed work in HEPI's 2026 survey of 1,054 students, fielded in December 2025.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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Some 95% of students report using AI in at least one way and 94% say they use generative AI to help with assessed work.
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The share of UK undergraduates using AI to generate text fell from 64% in 2025 to 56% in 2026.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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However, the proportion of students using AI to generate text with tools such as ChatGPT has fallen in this year's Survey from 64% in 2025 to 56% in 2026.
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12% of UK undergraduates said they had included AI-generated text directly in assessed work in HEPI's 2026 survey, up from 8% in 2025 and 3% in 2024.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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There is a change in the proportion of students who include AI-generated text directly in a piece of assessed work, with 12% stating they have done so. This has increased from 8% of students in 2025 and 3% of students in 2024.
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38% of UK undergraduates said their university provided generative AI tools in 2026, up from 9% in 2024.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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Figure 25 shows that, over the three waves of this Survey there has been a clear increase in the number of institutions providing AI tools to their students (from 9% in 2024, to 23% in 2025 and 38% in 2026).
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65% of UK undergraduates agreed in 2026 that assessment has changed significantly in response to AI.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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The 2026 Survey demonstrates that the transformation of assessments has continued, with 65% now indicating agreement or strong agreement with the statement.
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The share of UK undergraduates who use AI to save time fell from 51% in 2025 to 45% in 2026.
Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026)
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However, the percentage of students who use AI to save time decreased from 51% in 2025 to 45% in 2026.
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26% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 said they had used ChatGPT for schoolwork in late 2024, double the 2023 share.
Pew Research Center, About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork, double the share in 2023 (Jan 2025)
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The share of teens who say they use ChatGPT for their schoolwork has risen to 26%, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17.
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Only 18% of U.S. teens said using ChatGPT to write essays is acceptable in 2024, while 42% said it is not.
Pew Research Center, About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork, double the share in 2023 (Jan 2025)
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18% say it's acceptable to use ChatGPT to write essays, and 42% say it's not acceptable.
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UK undergraduates whose university provides AI tools
HEPI and Kortext Student Generative AI Surveys of UK full-time undergraduates, 2024 to 2026.
Source: Higher Education Policy Institute, Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199)
AI text online, accuracy and detection
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74.2% of 900,000 new web pages analyzed by Ahrefs in April 2025 contained AI-generated content.
Ahrefs, 74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages) (May 2025)
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We analyzed 900,000 newly created web pages in April 2025 and found that 74.2% of them contained AI-generated content.
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Only 2.5% of new pages in the Ahrefs sample were classified as pure AI, while 25.8% were pure human and the rest mixed.
Ahrefs, 74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages) (May 2025)
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2.5% of pages were categorized as "pure AI." 25.8% were categorized as "pure human."
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87% of 879 content marketers surveyed by Ahrefs in 2025 said they use AI to create or help create content.
Ahrefs, 74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages) (May 2025)
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If more validation was needed, when I surveyed 879 content marketers, 87% reported using AI to create or help create content
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81.2% of 5,000 long-form LinkedIn posts sampled in July 2026 were classified as likely AI by Originality.ai's detector.
Originality.ai, LinkedIn AI Content Study: 81% of Long-Form Posts Are Likely AI (Jul 2026)
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In the much larger July analysis, 4,061 of 5,000 posts were Likely AI: 81.2%.
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In a 2023 Stanford study, seven AI detectors classified 61.22% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English students as AI-generated.
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers (May 2023)
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they classified more than half of TOEFL essays (61.22%) written by non-native English students as AI-generated
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45% of AI assistant answers about news had at least one significant issue in a 2025 study by 22 public broadcasters in 18 countries.
BBC and European Broadcasting Union, Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (Oct 2025)
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45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
- 49.
Google Gemini had significant issues in 76% of its news answers in the 2025 BBC and EBU study, the worst of the assistants tested.
BBC and European Broadcasting Union, Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (Oct 2025)
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Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
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Only 12% of adults across six countries were comfortable with news made entirely by AI in 2025, compared with 62% for fully human-made news.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025)
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On average, only 12% are comfortable with news made entirely by AI; this rises to 21% with a 'human in the loop', 43% when a human leads with some AI help, and 62% for entirely human-made news (an increase of 4 percentage points since 2024).
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55% of adults across six countries were comfortable with AI editing spelling and grammar in news, but only 30% with AI rewriting content for different audiences (2025).
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025)
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Comfort is higher for editing spelling and grammar (55%) or translation (53%), and lower for rewriting content for different audiences (30%), creating a realistic image when no photo exists (26%), and artificial presenter/authors (19%).
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Comfort with news made with different levels of AI involvement, 2025
Average across six countries surveyed in 2025.
- Entirely AI12%
- AI with human in the loop21%
- Human-led with AI help43%
- Entirely human62%
Source: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society
Questions readers ask
- How many people use AI writing tools?
- About half of U.S. adults use AI chatbots and 44% use ChatGPT, according to Pew Research Center's 2026 survey. Gallup found 52% of U.S. employees use AI at work at least a few times a year.
- What do people use AI writing tools for at work?
- Writing is the most common work use of ChatGPT, at 40% of work-related messages in June 2025 according to an NBER working paper. Pew found 52% of workers who use chatbots for work have used them to edit written content and 47% to draft it.
- Does AI writing actually save time?
- In a 2023 MIT experiment, ChatGPT cut writing time by 40% and raised quality by 18%. Across all work, research by St. Louis Fed economists puts average savings at 5.4% of work hours, about 2.2 hours a week.
- Which AI writing assistant has the most satisfied users?
- ACSI's 2026 study ranks Google Gemini first at 76, then Microsoft Copilot at 74 and ChatGPT and Claude at 73. Premium subscribers score higher, with ChatGPT at 80 and Gemini at 82.
- Are AI detectors reliable?
- Not reliable enough to act on alone. A 2023 Stanford study found seven detectors labeled 61.22% of essays by non-native English writers as AI-generated. Content studies that use detectors, such as those by Ahrefs and Originality.ai, should be read as estimates.
How these figures were chosen
We chose figures on adoption, use cases, measured productivity, satisfaction, price changes and output reliability. Sources are the organizations that ran the survey, experiment or analysis, and every quote was checked against the source page on 2026-11-04. Samples differ: Pew and Gallup survey U.S. adults and workers, the Reuters Institute covers six countries, HEPI covers UK undergraduates, and OpenAI and Anthropic report on their own users. Content studies by Ahrefs and Originality.ai rely on AI detectors, which have known error rates, so treat those shares as estimates. The 2023 experiments from MIT, Harvard Business School and Stanford are included because no newer studies of the same design have replaced them, and each is labeled with its year. Every quote was copied from the publisher's page and re-checked by our source checker. Read the methodology.
Sources
- Ahrefs. 74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages) (May 2025).
- American Customer Satisfaction Index. ACSI AI Platforms Study 2026 (Apr 2026).
- Anthropic. Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption (Sep 2025).
- BBC and European Broadcasting Union. Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (Oct 2025).
- Eurostat. 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies (Dec 2025).
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Generative AI, Productivity and the Future of Work (Oct 2025).
- Gallup. Indicator: Artificial Intelligence (2026).
- Google. The future of AI-powered work for every business (Jan 2025).
- Harvard Business School. Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality (Sep 2023).
- Higher Education Policy Institute. Student Generative AI Survey 2026 (HEPI Report 199) (Mar 2026).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks (Jul 2023).
- Microsoft. Copilot is now included in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family (Jan 2025).
- National Bureau of Economic Research. How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025).
- National Bureau of Economic Research. How People Use ChatGPT (NBER Working Paper 34255) (Sep 2025).
- OpenAI. How people are using ChatGPT (Sep 2025).
- Originality.ai. LinkedIn AI Content Study: 81% of Long-Form Posts Are Likely AI (Jul 2026).
- Pew Research Center. Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (Jun 2026).
- Pew Research Center. U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace (Feb 2025).
- Pew Research Center. About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork, double the share in 2023 (Jan 2025).
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Generative AI and news report 2025: How people think about AI's role in journalism and society (2025).
- Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers (May 2023).
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