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# MIT and Stanford Launch Public AI Observatory, First Independent Audit of 24,521 AI Users

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**Published:** 2026-08-18T23:50:02.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** safety, regulation, open\-source

## Summary

A coalition of academic researchers introduced a new open infrastructure to analyze the actual patterns of artificial intelligence assistant usage\. The Public…

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