benchmark AI economies across the country<\/a>, weighing talent, innovation and adoption.<\/p>\nFrom the Bay Area “Superstars” to the “Nascent Adopters” in places like Tucson, Tulsa and Tuscaloosa, they said AI adoption might prove critical to how communities compete in the coming decades.<\/p>\n
“All of this is important, because if this is, in fact, the transformative technology we’re talking about, it’s important who has it,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro. “What economies is it improving? What people, firms and places are benefiting?”<\/p>\n
AI activity remains highly concentrated, said Muro, who led the analysis with Brookings Senior Research Assistant Shriya Methkupally.<\/p>\n
The Bay Area alone accounts for 13% of all AI-related job postings, they said.<\/p>\n
To fully harness the power of AI, cities across the U.S. need to be involved, Muro said.<\/p>\n
AI shouldn\u2019t be felt as a distant industry for Americans, regardless of where they live.<\/p>\n
And Muro said the U.S., already the AI leader, will be more vulnerable to competition and miss out on contributions from talented people if development remains constrained to a handful of expensive, coastal cities.<\/p>\n
Muro and Methkupally put nearly 200 metro areas into one of six buckets: \u201cSuperstars,\u201d \u201cStar Hubs,\u201d \u201cEmerging Centers,\u201d \u201cFocused Movers,\u201d \u201cNascent Adopters,\u201d and \u201cOthers.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco and San Jose were alone in the \u201cSuperstars\u201d bucket with their unmatched strength across all AI success pillars, Muro said.<\/p>\n
\u201cStar Hubs\u201d is a group of 28 metro areas with strong AI ecosystems, top-tier talent, research and enterprise uptake, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n
That group includes big cities from coast to coast: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle and Dallas, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmerging Centers\u201d includes 14 metro areas that might need work in one of the three pillars of AI readiness.<\/p>\n
St. Louis, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Tampa are included there.<\/p>\n
There are 29 more metro areas in the \u201cFocused Movers\u201d bucket. Those places \u2013 including Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Charleston and El Paso \u2013 excel in one AI pillar.<\/p>\n
Then, there\u2019s the group of 79 metro areas listed as \u201cNascent Adopters\u201d that are showing moderate performance across all three pillars.<\/p>\n
Finally, there\u2019s the \u201cOthers\u201d group, which lags on multiple pillars.<\/p>\n
Muro said they found that cities really benefit from having a technically oriented university to drive the talent pipeline and research.<\/p>\n
But an area without a university like that isn\u2019t doomed, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are places that are thin or maybe just have a community college but are able to bootstrap that into what is important, (which) is a pool of talent and relations with the private sector,\u201d Muro said.<\/p>\n
He said local leaders need to be proactive about AI innovation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimply letting it rip,\u201d meaning taking a hands-off approach, will just reinforce the geographic concentration we\u2019re already seeing, Muro said.<\/p>\n
Muro said he doesn\u2019t want to take away from the regions that are already leading in AI innovation.<\/p>\n
But he wants to see more places contributing.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that’ll be good for the United States, and that’ll be good for communities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But are there risks to a community embracing AI?<\/p>\n
\u201cEngagement with AI, with the potential upsides in productivity that that brings, commits you to a degree of dislocation,\u201d Muro said. \u201cThe places that have it will see more, in a significant way, will see more change in their labor markets.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, he said, community leaders who are serious about embracing AI should also be serious about supporting workers through a time of transition and possible joblessness.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt raises the question about what is the skilling and upskilling framework in a place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Muro said the AI revolution is coming, though he thinks it will take some time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a real shame if we have another round of this rich getting richer on productivity and more places, most places, falling behind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(TNND) \u2014 Brookings researchers have mapped which American cities are shining and which are struggling in the race…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4652,691,55885,738,10050,1109,2426,21851,3993,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-81718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adoption","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-american-cities","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-brookings","13":"tag-communities","14":"tag-innovation","15":"tag-job-postings","16":"tag-talent","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114893566928370765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}