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AI Index Report 2024
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The Stanford HAI AI Index is a key annual reference for tracking AI progress and informing governance; useful for grounding AI safety discussions in empirical data on capabilities growth, investment trends, and policy responses.
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The Stanford HAI AI Index is an annual, comprehensive data-driven report tracking AI's technical progress, economic influence, and societal impact globally. It synthesizes hundreds of metrics and datasets to provide policymakers, researchers, and the public with authoritative, unbiased insights into the state of AI. It is widely cited by governments, major media, and academic researchers worldwide.
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- •Tracks AI progress across technical benchmarks, research output, investment, policy, and societal adoption with rigorous, globally sourced data.
- •Cited by governments including the US, UK, EU, and others as a reference for AI policy development.
- •Recognized by major outlets (NYT, Bloomberg, Guardian) and accumulates hundreds of academic citations annually.
- •Covers AI's economic influence, labor market impacts, responsible AI developments, and geopolitical dimensions.
- •Serves as a primary benchmark resource for understanding AI capabilities growth relative to safety and governance needs.
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| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Scientific Research Capabilities | Capability | 68.0 |
| Self-Improvement and Recursive Enhancement | Capability | 69.0 |
| Neuromorphic Hardware | Capability | 55.0 |
| AI Safety Research Allocation Model | Analysis | 65.0 |
| AI Development Racing Dynamics | Risk | 72.0 |
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The mission of the AI Index is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and the general public to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field of AI. To achieve this, we track, collate, distill, and visualize data relating to artificial intelligence.
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Recognized Globally
The AI Index is recognized globally as one of the most credible and authoritative sources for data and insights on artificial intelligence.
Previous editions have been cited in major newspapers, including the The New York Times, Bloomberg, and The Guardian, have amassed hundreds of academic citations, and been referenced by high-level policymakers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, among other places. This year’s edition surpasses all previous ones in size, scale, and scope, reflecting the growing significance that AI is coming to hold in all of our lives.
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The AI Index program is an independent initiative at the Stanford HAI. The program is a collaborative effort led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. See All People
Ray Perrault Co-Chair, AI Index Steering Committee | Affiliate Fellow, Stanford HAI | Distinguished Computer Scientist, SRI International Yolanda Gil (Chair-Elect) Affiliate Fellow, Stanford HAI | Fellow and Director of AI and Data Science Initiatives, Information Sciences Institute / Research Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences, University of Southern California Erik Brynjolfsson Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Senior Fellow, SIEPR | Professor, by courtesy, of Economics; of Operations, Information & Technology; and of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Jack Clark Co-Founder, Anthropic Evaluating AI Progress and Impact
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