Jack Clark

The seventh annual AI Index report from Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute provides a comprehensive, data-driven assessment of the state of artificial intelligence across research output, technical performance, responsible AI practices, the economy, education, policy, and public opinion worldwide. The report documents the accelerating pace of AI development, noting that industry has overtaken academia as the primary driver of frontier model development and that the costs of training leading systems have risen dramatically into the hundreds of millions of dollars. It tracks the growing number of AI-related regulations worldwide, the expansion of AI adoption across economic sectors, and shifts in public sentiment that show increasing awareness of both AI's potential benefits and its risks. The report also highlights significant gaps in responsible AI practices, including the lack of standardized benchmarks for evaluating safety and the limited transparency from leading developers about their training data and evaluation procedures. As a widely cited reference document used by policymakers, journalists, and researchers, the AI Index plays an important role in grounding public discourse about AI progress in empirical data rather than speculation.