What kinds of guidance do people seek from Claude?
We sampled 1 million claude.ai conversations from March and April 2026 and filtered for unique users to get roughly 639,000 conversations. We then used a classifier to identify personal guidance, which we defined as conversations where people ask what they specifically should do in their personal lives—for example, questions that start with "Should I…?" or "What do I do about…?". We excluded questions that seek objective information or opinions in general terms. We categorized these roughly 38,000 conversations into nine domains, drawing from previous research on AI and guidance-giving: relati