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2025-05-03 02:10:00
These Are All The Things People Use AI For In 2025
These Are All The Things People Use AI For In 2025
Thought leaders dubbed ChatGPT’s emergence - and subsequent generative AI proliferation - as the “fourth industrial age.”
Whether it will https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-which-jobs-are-using-ai-the-most/
entirely still remains to be seen. But there’s no denying that most people are familiar with, and are actively using AI.
What are they using it for?
This ranking tracks the most popular AI use cases as sourced from an analysis done by Marc Zao-Sanders for https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
. He examined thousands of forum posts over the last year in a follow-up to his 2024 analysis.
The top 30 ranks from this report have been visualized in this graphichttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-all-the-things-people-use-ai-for-in-2025/
. Labels have been edited lightly from the source for readability.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/How-People-Use-Gen-AI-in-2025_Si.jpg?itok=Bsx3VXKF
This visualization is part of Visual Capitalist’s AI Week, sponsored by https://terzo.ai/
.
Here’s How Everyone is Using AI in 2025
People are using AI for support (both professional and personal) in 2025
In fact, the top three use cases (therapy, life organization, and finding purpose) all show that AI can assist humans in managing both emotions and their life.
2024
Use Case
Category
2025
Use Case
Category
1
Generate Ideas
Content
Creation
1
Therapy & Companionship
Support
2
Therapy & Companionship
Support
2
Organize Life
Support
3
Specific Search
Research
& Analysis
3
Find Purpose
Support
4
Edit text
Content
Creation
4
Enhance Learning
Learning &
Education
5
Explore Interests
Learning &
Education
5
Generate Code
Technical
Assistance
6
Fun & Nonsense
Creativity &
Recreation
6
Generate Ideas
Content
Creation
7
Troubleshoot
Technical
Assistance
7
Fun & Nonsense
Creativity &
Recreation
8
Enhance Learning
Learning &
Education
8
Improve Code
Technical
Assistance
9
Personalize Learning
Learning &
Education
9
Creativity
Content
Creation
10
General advice
Support
10
Healthy Living
Support
11
Draft emails
Content
Creation
11
Interview Preparation
Learning &
Education
12
Explainers
Learning &
Education
12
Generate Images
Creativity &
Recreation
13
Write & Edit Résumé
Support
13
Specific Search
Research
& Analysis
14
Excel Formulas
Technical
Assistance
14
Explainers
Learning &
Education
15
Email Writing
Content
Creation
15
Cooking Guidance
Creativity &
Recreation
16
Evaluate Copy
Research
& Analysis
16
Troubleshoot
Technical
Assistance
17
Improve Decisions
Research
& Analysis
17
Personalize Learning
Learning &
Education
18
Translation
Technical
Assistance
18
Boost Confidence
Support
19
Improve Code
Technical
Assistance
19
Email Writing
Content
Creation
20
Draft Document
Content
Creation
20
Explain Legalese
Technical
Assistance
21
Navigate
Personal Disputes
Support
21
Child Entertainment
Creativity &
Recreation
22
Summarize Content
Learning &
Education
22
Corporate LLM
Support
23
Make a Complaint
Support
23
Student Essays
Learning &
Education
24
Recommendations
Creativity &
Recreation
24
Travel Itinerary
Support
25
Cooking Guidance
Creativity &
Recreation
25
Childcare Help
Creativity &
Recreation
26
Generate Appraisals
Content
Creation
26
Medical Advice
Support
27
Creativity
Content
Creation
27
Navigate Personal Disputes
Support
28
Medical Advice
Support
28
Generate Legal Document
Content
Creation
29
Generate
Legal Document
Content
Creation
29
Conversations
Support
30
Fix Code
Technical
Assistance
30
Anti-trolling
Content
Creation
And aside from therapy, these were not the top uses in 2024: which revolved around idea generation and search.
Speaking of AI search, its popularity has fallen 10 spots. People are still interested in learning and making AI explain concepts or add context for them. But they’re not actively looking up information as much.
(This may also be because of Gemini’s integration in Google Search).
AI For Mental Health: Good or Bad?
With mental health support severely underfunded and the Loneliness Epidemic only continuing, it’s no surprise AI has emerged as a viable outlet for people to get some support in their life.
Experts say they can see https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/why-ai-isnt-a-magic-bullet-for-mental-health
for teaching mindfulness or cognitive behavioral therapy to users.
However, the problem occurs when AI is used as a replacement for actual human relationships, preventing deeper human connections, in turn exacerbating loneliness.
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