Microsoft researchers who measured the applicability of generative AI to occupations from Bing Copilot conversations state that they “cannot release conversational data due to legal and privacy obligations” and published aggregated occupation-level metrics instead.

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Claim LD08-SL-C20 (v1.0)

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Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with qualifiers: source position
Verification state: Checked against the primary source; the source is a preprint. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: A claim about other developers or about whether access would be granted under other terms
Limitations: Read in arXiv version 6 (22 December 2025); one product and one country
Source (as cited): Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025
Source type: Preprint (recorded as “Preprint”)
Institutional position: AI developer self-report (Microsoft Research and Microsoft)
Maturity of the evidence: Emerging evidence
Recorded date: 16 October 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025 (Preprint)
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Claim type (coded): FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (SOURCE_POSITION) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER”)
Verification state (coded): CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT)
Source type (coded): PREPRINT
Maturity (coded): EMERGING

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD08-SL-C20	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Microsoft researchers who measured the applicability of generative AI to occupations from Bing Copilot conversations state that they “cannot release conversational data due to legal and privacy obligations” and published aggregated occupation-level metrics instead.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	B — Data and access	—
5	MATURITY	EMERGING	states: EMERGING
6	SOURCE	Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025	source_ids: SRC-SL-TOMLINSON-ET-AL-ARXIV-2507-07935
7	SOURCE TYPE	Preprint	classes: PREPRINT
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	AI developer self-report (Microsoft Research and Microsoft)	—
9	SCOPE	US Bing Copilot conversations, January to September 2024	—
10	DESIGN	Classification of conversations into work activities; occupation-level applicability scores	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	About 200,000 anonymized conversations: 100,000 sampled uniformly and 100,000 with user feedback	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Bing Copilot; classification by OpenAI’s GPT-4o	—
13	COMPARATOR	Earlier expert and model predictions of occupational exposure	—
14	MAIN RESULT	Conversation data not released; aggregates published on GitHub; employment-weighted correlation r = 0.73 with earlier annotator-based estimates of occupational exposure	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	The access model for one developer’s usage evidence	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	A claim about other developers or about whether access would be granted under other terms	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: PREPRINT · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Read in arXiv version 6 (22 December 2025); one product and one country	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	LD08-SL-C16; LD08-SL-C21	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	US / English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Not analysed in this claim	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	LD-08, D3, D2	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Release of conversation-level data to vetted researchers	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: SOURCE_POSITION
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-10-16	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-08 (LIVING_DEBATE); D3 (DOMAIN); D2 (DOMAIN)

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“Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025” → Tomlinson et al. (2025), “Working with AI: Measuring the…” (SRC-SL-TOMLINSON-ET-AL-ARXIV-2507-07935--v1.0) — Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025; class PREPRINT (explicit public provenance pin)

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SocioLens project. (2026, October 16). Microsoft researchers who measured the applicability of generative AI to occupations from Bing Copilot conversations state that they “cannot release conversational data due to legal and privacy obligations” and published aggregated occupation-level metrics instead [Claim LD08-SL-C20, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld08-sl-c20/v1.0/

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Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 cc1710fe07d9730f0c8be86561687f1e2cc737789d9cdfae8cede74caa25da88.

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SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C20 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-16; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 20 — LD08-SL-C20” SHA-256 e473eafcd780ebac42eb27d4b6d283df3ad315ce26f89badd528f6ed5dae7ae7; fixture fixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C20--v1.0.

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VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C20 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-08 debate
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD08-SL-C20 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-16); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 16 October 2026 to build the LD-08 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-08 source notes, checked against full texts, official web pages or official abstracts
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-TOMLINSON-ET-AL-ARXIV-2507-07935--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 20 — LD08-SL-C20 cites "Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-TOMLINSON-ET-AL-ARXIV-2507-07935--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025".