Washington Area Enjoys AI Job Surge as Feds Embrace New Tech

The US capital is grabbing an outsize share of new jobs that require artificial intelligence skills, as the government and its contractors embrace the emerging technology, according to new research.

The region comprising Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland has enjoyed some of the fastest growth in AI-related job postings. It also leads the country on a measure of AI job intensity, or the share of such posts among all those listed, according to the study led by University of Marylandacademics.

That’s due to the “all-out embrace of AI” by federal agencies and companies that do business with ...