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The largest multilingual study finds professional excellence tops the list

development2026-03-20

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Anthropic surveyed 81,000 people across 159 countries in 70 languages, possibly the largest multilingual qualitative study ever, finding the top desire for AI is professional excellence at 18.8%, followed by personal transformation and life management.

Reported metric: 81,000 people / 159 countries

Reporting date: 2026-03-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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The largest multilingual study finds professional excellence tops the list
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Reporting date: 2026-03-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-20-81000-people-in-159-countries
Claim: Anthropic surveyed 81,000 people across 159 countries in 70 languages, possibly the largest multilingual qualitative study ever, finding the top desire for AI is professional excellence at 18.8%, followed by personal transformation and life management.
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- Welcome to March 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-20-2026
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