Philadelphia

blue

Axios Philadelphia Partners

Philadelphia Alerts

Alert

A daily look at the most significant and interesting stories affecting Philadelphia. Written by local reporters.

Axios Philadelphia Thought Bubble

Thought Bubble

Get smarter, faster on what matters in Philadelphia with Mike D'Onofrio and Isaac Avilucea.

Axios Philadelphia

Standard

Philadelphia Members

Membership

Axios AI+

Pennsylvanians are embracing AI use more slowly than half of the country, well behind tech-centric states like California as well as neighbors like New Jersey and New York, per a new report from Anthropic.

Why it matters: Uneven adoption around the U.S. means certain states are more likely than others to benefit, and it threatens to worsen existing inequalities.

Driving the news: Pennsylvania ranks 28th among U.S. states and Washington, D.C., in its usage of Claude — Anthropic's AI platform — relative to population.

By the numbers: D.C. tops the nation, at 3.82 times higher than expected usage. Utah ranks second.

California (3rd) and New York (4th) round out the states using Claude the most, relative to population. New Jersey is 17th.

Zoom in: People in Pennsylvania are most frequently using Claude for writing tasks, help with academic research and educational content, and for medical and health care guidance.

People who work in tech and mathematical fields make up Claude's biggest user base in the state, followed by workers in educational instruction and creative, media and sports industries.

The intrigue: Compared to other states, Pennsylvanians are using Claude more often to research consumer products and buying decisions, and for creating K-12 teaching materials.

What they're saying: Anthropic economist Peter McCrory told Axios that the goal of the research is to equip policymakers, researchers and the broader public with enough data "so that the benefits of AI are broadly felt."

"What we really hope with this data is to help people understand [and] anticipate how AI at the frontier is changing the nature of work," McCory said.

Anthropic is making the data openly available for other researchers and policymakers.

Pennsylvania pales in AI use compared to its neighbors

We're embracing AI use more slowly than half of the country, per new data from Anthropic.

Illustrated collage of a repeating pattern made up of the Washington monument and abstract grids revealing pieces of a circuit board surrounded by abstract circles. 

Pennsylvanians are embracing <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="AI" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/anthropic-economic-index-2025" data-vars-content-id="79f96f4e-c309-4084-a073-69fac154c756" data-vars-headline="Pennsylvania pales in AI use compared to its neighbors" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/anthropic-economic-index-2025" target="_self">AI</a> use more slowly than half of the country, well behind tech-centric states like California as well as neighbors like New Jersey and New York, per a new report from <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Anthropic" data-vars-click-url="https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-geography" data-vars-content-id="79f96f4e-c309-4084-a073-69fac154c756" data-vars-headline="Pennsylvania pales in AI use compared to its neighbors" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-geography" target="_blank">Anthropic</a>.Why it matters: Uneven adoption around the U.S. <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="means" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/anthropic-economic-index-2025" data-vars-content-id="79f96f4e-c309-4084-a073-69fac154c756" data-vars-headline="Pennsylvania pales in AI use compared to its neighbors" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/15/anthropic-economic-index-2025" target="_self">means</a> certain states are more likely than others to benefit, and it threatens to worsen existing inequalities.

News

Latest news on Wall Street, Corporate America and financial regulation.

Business

Education

Altman and Musk put AI trust on trial

National

Meet the Googlebook, an AI sequel to the Chromebook

AI chatbots struggle with subtle mental health cues

A bar chart that compares AI model scores on a suicide-risk identification benchmark across 300 clinician-designed, multi-turn role plays in March and April 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads at 9.19, followed by GPT 5.2 at 9.09, Gemini 2.5 Flash at 8.47 and Grok 4.1 at 6.79.

Suicide risk identification benchmark

Data: Mpathic; Chart: Megan Morrone/Axios

Musk-OpenAI case shows chatbot evidence risk

Axios Markets

How Elon grew to love Anthropic

topics

politics-policy

epstein-files

donald-trump

2026-midterm-elections

immigration

behind-the-curtain

race-and-equity

technology

privacy-tech-regulation

automation-and-ai

tiktok-news

big-tech

social-media

cybersecurity

economy

social-security

inflation

tariffs

federal-reserve

transportation

business

c-suite

retail-news

media

elon-musk

dealmaking

health

rfk-jr

drug-prices

axios-explains-abortion

public-health

world

israel

axios-explains-ukraine

iran

russia

china

energy-climate

nuclear-energy

climate-energy-policy

climate-change

extreme-weather

alternative-energy

electric-vehicles

science

emerging-tech

biomedicine

newsletters

charlotte

salt-lake-city

denver

boulder

kansas-city

austin

chicago

dallas

detroit

washington-dc

atlanta

indianapolis

nashville

nw-arkansas

columbus

richmond

san-francisco

boston

des-moines

houston

phoenix

miami

philadelphia

seattle

new-orleans

colorado-springs

huntsville

raleigh

san-antonio

twin-cities

pittsburgh

arapahoe

douglas

san-diego

tampa-bay

portland

cleveland

axios-local

axios-pro

axios-live

the-axios-show

Ina Fried

Featured stories

Altman and Musk put AI trust on trial

Meet the Googlebook, an AI sequel to the Chromebook

AI chatbots struggle with subtle mental health cues

Musk-OpenAI case shows chatbot evidence risk

How Elon grew to love Anthropic