Brief

The ninth edition of the AI Index report highlights a growing gap between AI's rapid advancement and the preparedness of governance frameworks, evaluation methods, and educational systems to manage its impact. This year's report introduces new analyses on generative AI's economic value and labor market effects, alongside dedicated chapters on AI in science and medicine. It also tracks increasingly ambitious testing of AI across reasoning, safety, and real-world tasks, while noting the growing difficulty in relying on these measurements. AI