AI companies feature in 10-stop San Francisco tour
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Updated · The San Francisco Standard · May 3
AI companies feature in 10-stop San Francisco tour
10 articles · Updated · The San Francisco Standard · May 3
The route spans OpenAI and Anthropic offices, a Waymo parking lot, Greg Brockman's former home and newer AI-led businesses including Andon Market and Corgi Cafe.
It highlights San Francisco's physical AI footprint, from nearly 470,000 square feet of OpenAI offices to autonomous taxis and shops using AI for pricing, staffing and customer checkout.
The tour also reflects the city's wider AI culture, including protests at OpenAI, Anthropic's safety-focused identity, World's retina-scan store and art-tech spaces such as Tiat and Frontier Tower.
Is San Francisco's AI tour a preview of human progress or a showcase of our impending peril?
With AI now hiring and managing human employees, what new rights will workers need to ensure fair treatment?
As AI learns to autonomously hack secure systems, who is building the shields to defend against it?
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Overview
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