have called employees back to the office a few days per week, suggesting that there are fewer fully remote tech positions than there used to be. And there's reason to believe the AI industry in particular is more averse to remote work than the rest of the tech sector. for one, the CEO of OpenAI, is not a fan of remote work — at least in the tech startup space.
"I feel pretty strongly that startups need a lot of in-person time," he added,"And the more fragile and nuanced and uncertain a set of ideas are, the more time you need together in person."Brookings' Muro said that he expects many generative AI jobs to be in-person some or all of the time. "We believe that this kind of early-stage work is exactly the kind of work that's most often being done by teams in the same space," he said."This is the work that is drawing developers back to the Bay Area to participate in person in the excitement."the US could take to diversify the geography of the generative AI industry in the years ahead.