Claim LD08-SL-C20 (v1.0)
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.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (SOURCE_POSITION) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH SOURCE-POSITION QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (PREPRINT) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED PREPRINT”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A claim about other developers or about whether access would be granted under other terms
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025
- Source type (field 7)
- PREPRINT (as printed: “Preprint”)
- Institutional position
- AI developer self-report (Microsoft Research and Microsoft)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- EMERGING (as printed: “EMERGING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-16
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD08-SL-C20.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Tomlinson, Jaffe, Wang, Counts & Suri, “Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations,” arXiv:2507.07935, 2025” → 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)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | 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)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
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.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- 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; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD08-SL-C20--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- 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".