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AI Shortlist · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Pennsylvania, USA in AI travel recommendations

US state · overall rank 142 of 233 · rank 39 among US state destinations

AI models put Pennsylvania, USA in their top 10 recommendations in 0.5% of answers, rank 142 overall. It does best when the question specifies trip length as weekend: 1.5%, +0.9 points against its overall score. With web search on, it scores +0.9 points against web search off.

The score is the share of answers that recommend Pennsylvania, USA in their top 10, averaged model by model and then platform by platform, so each platform counts equally.

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By platform

PlatformScore
Claude0.3%
ChatGPT0.6%
Gemini0.8%
Grok0.4%

By model

ModelScore
Claude Opus 50.0%
Claude Sonnet 50.4%
Claude Haiku 4.50.4%
GPT-5.6 Terra0.8%
GPT-5.6 Luna0.4%
Gemini 3.8 Flash0.8%
Grok 4.60.4%

Web search and effort

Pennsylvania, USA · Edition 1, 2027 travel year

Unit: Shortlist score, percent of answers

Pennsylvania, USA with web search on and off, and at each model's lowest and normal effort setting.

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SettingSearch on / normal effortSearch off / lowest effort
Web search on vs off1.0%0.1%
Normal vs lowest effort0.4%0.6%

The baseline question, "Where should I go in 2027?", was asked 5 times of each model at each setting. Pennsylvania, USA made the top 10 at least once for 1 of those 28 model-and-setting combinations, and where it did, it came back in 20.0% of the repeats on average.

By kind of question

How much higher or lower the score is on questions that ask for each option, in percentage points against the overall score. Outlined cells are below the overall score.

Trip length

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
WeekendTwo weeks
Change+0.9−0.3

Season

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
FallSpringSummer
Change+0.8−0.2−0.3

How it's asked

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
The plain questionWhere should I go?
Change+0.70.0

Transport

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Road tripRequires a flight
Change+0.5−0.2

Travel style

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
RelaxationExoticAdventureCultural
Change+0.5−0.1−0.2−0.5

Climate

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
Cool Weather
Change+0.3

Travel party

Unit: percentage points versus overall score
CoupleSolo
Change−0.2−0.3

How the models wrote the name

NameMentions
Philadelphia8
Jim Thorpe3
The Poconos2
Bucks County1
New Hope1
Pocono Mountains1
Pocono Mountains and Jim Thorpe1
Poconos1

Pennsylvania, USA

Most questions went to each model at each setting only once, and a model read the answers, so a reading can be wrong. The methodology has the details.

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