Cities most exposed to AI

 Bloomberg -Silicon Valley, the place that did more than any other to pioneer artificial intelligence, is the most exposed to its ability to automate work. That’s according to an analysis by researchers at the Brookings Institution, a think tank, which matched the tasks that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 could do with the jobs that are most common in different US cities. 

The result is a sharp departure from previous rounds of automation. Whereas technologies like robotics came for middle-class jobs — and manufacturing cities such as Detroit — generative AI is best at the white-collar work that’s highly paid and most common in “superstar” cities like San Francisco and Washington, DC. 

“Exposure” doesn’t necessarily mean automation, stressed Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings and one of the study’s authors. It could also mean productivity gains. A separate study, released in February by the AI firm Anthropic, found that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude directly completed a task in 43% of its conversations, whereas it was asked to collaborate with a human in 57% of them.