Posted by Alumni from Substack
May 5, 2026
' Hey, Linas here! Every day, I break down 3 stories shaping the future of FinTech & Artificial Intelligence - plus the money movements and trends worth tracking. First time here' 379k+ FinTech and AI leaders get this daily. Join them: Titled 'How People Ask Claude for Personal Guidance,' the study analyzed 1 million Claude AI conversations and found that roughly 6% were people seeking personal advice - not information, not code, not summaries, but genuine life guidance on health, careers, relationships, money, parenting, legal rights, and more. Across hundreds of millions of AI interactions, that translates to tens of millions of people using AI as a substitute for a doctor, financial advisor, therapist, lawyer, career coach, or relationship counselor - often because they cannot access or afford the professional alternative. Anthropic states this explicitly: users told Claude they turned to AI 'precisely because they could not access or afford a professional.' We already have proof... learn more