What San Francisco’s AI billboards say about the state of the industry
What San Francisco’s AI billboards say about the state of the industry
A survey of the city’s ads shows an ecosystem selling real products with real swagger, while sidestepping safety, job loss, and anyone outside the bubble.
[Source photo: Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images]
Here in San Francisco, we live in a bubble, and we know it. While much of the rest of the country sees the city through the lens of Fox News cameramen searching out homeless encampments, we actually live in a very beautiful, very wealthy, and, currently, very AI-obsessed place. Traditionally, the billboards along 101 through Silicon Valley have offered a glimpse into the collective mind of the tech........
