Washington has the highest share of workers in jobs highly exposed to artificial intelligence, at 5.7% of its workforce, according to a Visual Capitalist map based on SmartAsset analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The study covers 26 occupations identified by the Virginia Economic Information and Analytics Division as having particularly high exposure to potential AI-related disruption.

Virginia ranks second at 4.6%, followed by Washington, D.C., at 4.5%, with California and Utah tied at 4.0%. Washington's position reflects its large technology sector, where companies such as Microsoft and Amazon support a concentration of software developers, programmers and database specialists. Mississippi has the lowest share in the study, at 1.9%.

In absolute numbers, California leads with roughly 724,000 workers in highly exposed occupations. Texas follows with about 500,000, while New York and Florida each have roughly 301,000. Several Southern states sit near the middle of the share ranking. Texas ranks ninth at 3.6% and North Carolina tenth at 3.5%, while Georgia places 16th at 3.2%, tied with Massachusetts and Minnesota. Tennessee is at 3.1%, Alabama at 2.6%, South Carolina at 2.4%, Kentucky and Louisiana at 2.3%, and Arkansas at 2.2%.

The 26 occupations span technology, communications, administration and finance. Mathematicians rank as the most exposed, followed by proofreaders, correspondence clerks, court reporters and media and communication workers. Writers, translators, web developers, payroll clerks and bookkeeping workers also appear on the list. The analysis treats exposure as the potential for tasks to change through automation, weaker hiring demand, wage pressure or restructuring, rather than a direct estimate of how many positions will be eliminated.

Source: Visual Capitalist - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-where-u-s-jobs-are-most-exposed-to-ai/