1、Artificial IntelligenceIndex Report2 0 2 61ContentsIntroduction Top Takeaways1 Research and Development 2 Technical Performance 3 Responsible AI 4 Economy 5 Science6 Medicine7 Education8 Policy and Governance 9 Public OpinionAppendix2 91268126171231255288323360385 AI INDEX REPORT 2026The AI Index is
2、 an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence(HAI).The AI Index was conceived within the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence(AI100).Welcome to the ninth edition of the AI Index report.As AI continues to advance rapidly,the question beco
3、mes whether the systems built around it can keep up.Governance frameworks,evaluation methods,education systems,and the data infrastructure needed to track AIs impact are struggling to match the pace of the technology itself.That gapbetween what AI can do and how prepared we are to manage itruns thro
4、ugh every chapter of this years report.New in this edition,the report tracks how AI is being tested more ambitiously across reasoning,safety,and real-world task execution,and why those measurements are increasingly difficult to rely on.It also features new estimates of generative AIs economic value
5、alongside emerging evidence of its labor market effects,an analytical framework on AI sovereignty,and a science chapter developed in collaboration with Schmidt Sciences.For the first time,the report features standalone chapters on AI in science and AI in medicine,reflecting AIs growing impact across
6、 these two domains.For close to a decade,the AI Index has worked to bring reliable global data to a field that is evolving faster than most efforts to measure it.The report equips policymakers,researchers,executives,journalists,and the public with the necessary evidence to make informed decisions ab