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Introduction to the
AI Index Report 2024
Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date andarrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. This year,
we have broadened our scope to more extensively cover essential trends such as technical advancements
in AI, public perceptions of the technology, and the geopolitical dynamics surrounding its development.
Featuring more original data than ever before, this edition introduces new estimates on AI training costs,
detailed analyses of the responsible AI landscape, and an entirely new chapter dedicated to AI’s impact onscience and medicine.
The AI Index report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence (AI). Our
mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, broadly sourced data in order for policymakers, researchers,
executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of thecomplex field of AI.
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 YorkTimes, 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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Message From
the Co-directors
A decade ago, the best AI systems in the world were unable to classify objects in images at a human level. AI
struggled with language comprehension and could not solve math problems. Today, AI systems routinely exceed
human performance on standard benchmarks.
Progress accelerated in 2023. New state-of-the-art systems like GPT-4, Gemini, and Claude 3 are impressively
multimodal: They can generate fluent text in dozens of languages, process audio, and even explain memes. As AI
has improved, it has increasingly forced its way into our lives. Companies are racing to build AI-based products,
and AI is increasingly being used by the general public. But current AI technology still has significant problems. It
cannot reliably deal with facts, perform complex reasoning, or explain its conclusions.
AI faces two interrelated futures. First, technology continues to improve and is increasingly used, having major
consequences for productivity and employment. It can be put to both good and bad uses. In the second future,
the adoption of AI is constrained by the limitations of the technology. Regardless of which future unfolds,
governments are increasingly concerned. They are stepping in to encourage the upside, such as funding university
R&D and incentivizing private investment. Governments are also aiming to manage the potential downsides, suchas impacts on employment, privacy concerns, misinformation, and intellectual property rights.
As AI rapidly evolves, the AI Index aims to help the AI community, policymakers, business leaders, journalists, andthe general public navigate this complex landscape. It provides ongoing, objective snapshots tracking several
key areas: technical progress in AI capabilities, the community and investments driving AI development anddeployment, public opinion on current and potential future impacts, and policy measures taken to stimulate AI
innovation while managing its risks and challenges. By comprehensively monitoring the AI ecosystem, the Index
serves as an important resource for understanding this transformative technological force.
On the technical front, this year’s AI Index reports that the number of new large language models released
worldwide in 2023 doubled over the previous year. Two-thirds were open-source, but the highest-performing
models came from industry players with closed systems. Gemini Ultra became the first LLM to reach humanlevel performance on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark; performance on thebenchmark has improved by 15 percentage points since last year. Additionally, GPT-4 achieved an impressive 0.96
mean win rate score on the comprehensive Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) benchmark, which
includes MMLU among other evaluations.

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Message From the
Co-directors (cont’d)
Although global private investment in AI decreased for the second consecutive year, investment in generative
AI skyrocketed. More Fortune 500 earnings calls mentioned AI than ever before, and new studies show that AI
tangibly boosts worker productivity. On the policymaking front, global mentions of AI in legislative proceedings
have never been higher. U.S. regulators passed more AI-related regulations in 2023 than ever before. Still, many
expressed concerns about AI’s ability to generate deepfakes and impact elections. The public became moreaware of AI, and studies suggest that they responded with nervousness.
Ray Perrault and Jack Clark
Co-directors, AI Index

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Top 10 Takeaways
1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all. AI has surpassed human performance on several
benchmarks, including some in image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Yet it trails
behind on more complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning and planning.

2. Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. In 2023, industry produced 51 notablemachine learning models, while academia contributed only 15. There were also 21 notable models resulting fromindustry-academia collaborations in 2023, a new high.

3. Frontier models get way more expensive. According to AI Index estimates, the training costsof state-of-the-art AI models have reached unprecedented levels. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an
estimated $78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.

4. The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AI
models. In 2023, 61 notable AI models originated from U.S.-based institutions, far outpacing the European
Union’s 21 and China’s 15.

5. Robust and standardized evaluations for LLM responsibility are seriously lacking.
New research from the AI Index reveals a significant lack of standardization in responsible AI reporting.
Leading developers, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, primarily test their models against different
responsible AI benchmarks. This practice complicates efforts to systematically compare the risks andlimitations of top AI models.

6. Generative AI investment skyrockets. Despite a decline in overall AI private investment lastyear, funding for generative AI surged, nearly octupling from 2022 to reach $25.2 billion. Major players in
the generative AI space, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Inflection, reported substantial
fundraising rounds.

7. The data is in: AI makes workers more productive and leads to higher quality work. In
2023, several studies assessed AI’s impact on labor, suggesting that AI enables workers to complete tasks more
quickly and to improve the quality of their output. These studies also demonstrated AI’s potential to bridge
the skill gap between low- and high-skilled workers. Still, other studies caution that using AI without proper
oversight can lead to diminished performance.

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Top 10 Takeaways (cont’d)
8. Scientific progress accelerates even further, thanks to AI. In 2022, AI began to advancescientific discovery. 2023, however, saw the launch of even more significant science-related AI applications—from AlphaDev, which makes algorithmic sorting more efficient, to GNoME, which facilitates the process ofmaterials discovery.

9. The number of AI regulations in the United States sharply increases. The number of AIrelated regulations in the U.S. has risen significantly in the past year and over the last five years. In 2023, there
were 25 AI-related regulations, up from just one in 2016. Last year alone, the total number of AI-related regulations
grew by 56.3%.

10. People across the globe are more cognizant of AI’s potential impact—and more nervous.
A survey from Ipsos shows that, over the last year, the proportion of those who think AI will dramatically affect theirlives in the next three to five years has increased from 60% to 66%. Moreover, 52% express nervousness toward AI
products and services, marking a 13 percentage point rise from 2022. In America, Pew data suggests that 52% ofAmericans report feeling more concerned than excited about AI, rising from 37% in 2022.

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Steering Committee
Co-directors
Jack Clark, Anthropic, OECD
Raymond Perrault, SRI International

Members
Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University
John Etchemendy, Stanford University
Katrina Ligett, Hebrew University
Terah Lyons, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
James Manyika, Google, University of Oxford

Juan Carlos Niebles, Stanford University, Salesforce
Vanessa Parli, Stanford University
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University, AI21 Labs
Russell Wald, Stanford University

Staff and Researchers
Research Manager and Editor in Chief
Nestor Maslej
Stanford University

Research Associate
Loredana Fattorini
Stanford University

Affiliated Researchers
Elif Kiesow Cortez, Stanford Law School Research Fellow
Anka Reuel, Stanford University
Robi Rahman, Data Scientist

Alexandra Rome, Freelance Researcher
Lapo Santarlasci, IMT School for
Advanced Studies Lucca

Graduate Researchers
Emily Capstick, Stanford University
James da Costa, Stanford University
Simba Jonga, Stanford University

Undergraduate Researchers
Summer Flowers, Stanford University
Armin Hamrah, Claremont McKenna College
Amelia Hardy, Stanford University
Mena Hassan, Stanford University
Ethan Duncan He-Li Hellman, Stanford University
Julia Betts Lotufo, Stanford University

Sukrut Oak, Stanford University
Andrew Shi, Stanford University
Jason Shin, Stanford University
Emma Williamson, Stanford University
Alfred Yu, Stanford University
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How to Cite This Report
Nestor Maslej, Loredana Fattorini, Raymond Perrault, Vanessa Parli, Anka Reuel, Erik Brynjolfsson, John Etchemendy,
Katrina Ligett, Terah Lyons, James Manyika, Juan Carlos Niebles, Yoav Shoham, Russell Wald, and Jack Clark,“The AI Index 2024 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, April 2024.
The AI Index 2024 Annual Report by Stanford University is licensed under Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

Public Data and Tools
The AI Index 2024 Report is supplemented by raw data and an interactive tool. We invite each reader to use thedata and the tool in a way most relevant to their work and interests.
• Raw data and charts: The public data and high-resolution images of all the charts in the report areavailable on Google Drive.
• Global AI Vibrancy Tool: Compare the AI ecosystems of over 30 countries. The Global AI Vibrancy tool
will be updated in the summer of 2024.

AI Index and Stanford HAI
The AI Index is 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).
The AI Index welcomes feedback and new ideas for next year. Contact us at AI-Index-Report@stanford.edu.
The AI Index acknowledges that while authored by a team of human researchers, its writing process was aided
by AI tools. Specifically, the authors used ChatGPT and Claude to help tighten and copy edit initial drafts.
The workflow involved authors writing the original copy, then utilizing AI tools as part of the editing process.

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Supporting Partners

Analytics andResearch Partners

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Contributors
The AI Index wants to acknowledge the following individuals by chapter and section for their contributions of data,
analysis, advice, and expert commentary included in the AI Index 2024 Report:

Introduction
Loredana Fattorini, Nestor Maslej, Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault

Chapter 1: Research and Development
Catherine Aiken, Terry Auricchio, Tamay Besiroglu, Rishi Bommasani, Andrew Brown, Peter Cihon, James da Costa,
Ben Cottier, James Cussens, James Dunham, Meredith Ellison, Loredana Fattorini, Enrico Gerding, Anson Ho,
Percy Liang, Nestor Maslej, Greg Mori, Tristan Naumann, Vanessa Parli, Pavlos Peppas, Ray Perrault, Robi Rahman,
Vesna Sablijakovic-Fritz, Jim Schmiedeler, Jaime Sevilla, Autumn Toney, Kevin Xu, Meg Young, Milena Zeithamlova

Chapter 2: Technical Performance
Rishi Bommasani, Emma Brunskill, Erik Brynjolfsson, Emily Capstick, Jack Clark, Loredana Fattorini, Tobi Gertsenberg,
Noah Goodman, Nicholas Haber, Sanmi Koyejo, Percy Liang, Katrina Ligett, Sasha Luccioni, Nestor Maslej,
Juan Carlos Niebles, Sukrut Oak, Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault, Andrew Shi, Yoav Shoham, Emma Williamson

Chapter 3: Responsible AI
Jack Clark, Loredana Fattorini, Amelia Hardy, Katrina Ligett, Nestor Maslej, Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault,
Anka Reuel, Andrew Shi

Chapter 4: Economy
Susanne Bieller, Erik Brynjolfsson, Mar Carpanelli, James da Costa, Natalia Dorogi, Heather English, Murat Erer,
Loredana Fattorini, Akash Kaura, James Manyika, Nestor Maslej, Cal McKeever, Julia Nitschke, Layla O’Kane,
Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault, Brittany Presten, Carl Shan, Bill Valle, Casey Weston, Emma Williamson

Chapter 5: Science and Medicine
Russ Altman, Loredana Fattorini, Remi Lam, Curtis Langlotz, James Manyika, Nestor Maslej, Vanessa Parli,
Ray Perrault, Emma Williamson

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Contributors (cont’d)
Chapter 6: Education
Betsy Bizot, John Etchemendy, Loredana Fattorini, Kirsten Feddersen, Matt Hazenbush, Nestor Maslej,
Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault, Svetlana Tikhonenko, Laurens Vehmeijer, Hannah Weissman, Stuart Zweben

Chapter 7: Policy and GovernanceAlison Boyer, Elif Kiesow Cortez, Rebecca DeCrescenzo, Cassandra Dever, David Freeman Engstrom,
Loredana Fattorini, Philip de Guzman, Mena Hassan, Ethan Duncan He-Li Hellman, Daniel Ho, Joseph Hsu,
Simba Jonga, Rohini Kosoglu, Mark Lemley, Julia Betts Lotufo, Nestor Maslej, Caroline Meinhardt,
Julian Nyarko, Jeff Park, Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault, Alexandra Rome, Lapo Santarlasci, Sarah Smedley,
Russell Wald, Emma Williamson, Daniel Zhang

Chapter 8: Diversity
Betsy Bizot, Loredana Fattorini, Kirsten Feddersen, Matt Hazenbush, Nestor Maslej, Vanessa Parli, Ray Perrault,
Svetlana Tikhonenko, Laurens Vehmeijer, Caroline Weis, Hannah Weissman, Stuart Zweben

Chapter 9: Public Opinion
Maggie Arai, Thomas Bergeron, Heather English, Loredana Fattorini, Thomas Galipeau, Isaac Gazendam,
Armin Hamrah, Blake Lee-Whiting, Peter John Loewen, Nestor Maslej, Hugh Needham, Vanessa Parli,
Ray Perrault, Marco Monteiro Silva, Lee Slinger, Bill Valle, Russell Wald, Sofiya Yusypovych

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The AI Index thanks the following organizations and individuals who provided data for inclusion in this year’s report:

Organizations
Accenture

International Federation of Robotics

Arnab Chakraborty

Susanne Bieller

Center for Research on
Foundation Models

Lightcast
Cal McKeever, Julia Nitschke, Layla O’Kane

Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang

Center for Security and Emerging
Technology, Georgetown University
Catherine Aiken, James Dunham, Autumn Toney

LinkedIn
Murat Erer, Akash Kaura, Casey Weston

McKinsey & Company
Natalia Dorogi, Brittany Presten

Code.org
Hannah Weissman

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Blake Lee-Whiting, Peter John Loewen, Lee Slinger

Computing Research Association
Betsy Bizot, Stuart Zweben

Quid
Heather English, Bill Valle

Epoch
Ben Cottier, Robi Rahman

GitHubSchwartz Reisman Institute for Technology
and SocietyPeter Cihon, Kevin Xu

Maggie Arai, Monique Crichlow, Gillian K. Hadfield,
Marco Monteiro Silva

GoviniStudyportals

Alison Boyer, Rebecca DeCrescenzo, Cassandra
Dever, Philip de Guzman, Joseph Hsu, Jeff Park

Kirsten Feddersen, Laurens Vehmeijer

Informatics Europe

Women in Machine Learning
Caroline Weis

Svetlana Tikhonenko
The AI Index also thanks Jeanina Casusi, Nancy King, Carolyn Lehman, Shana Lynch, Jonathan Mindes, andMichi Turner for their help in preparing this report; Joe Hinman and Nabarun Mukherjee for their help inmaintaining the AI Index website; and Annie Benisch, Marc Gough, Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris, Kaci Peel,
Drew Spence, Madeline Wright, and Daniel Zhang for their work in helping promote the report.
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Table of Contents
Report Highlights		

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Chapter 1

Research and Development

27

Chapter 2

Technical Performance		 73Chapter 3

Responsible AI

159

Chapter 4

Economy213

Chapter 5

Science and Medicine

296

Chapter 6

Education

325

Chapter 7

Policy and Governance

366

Chapter 8

Diversity

411

Chapter 9

Public Opinion

435

Appendix		

458

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Report Highlights
Chapter 1: Research and Development
1. Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. In 2023, industry produced 51 notablemachine learning models, while academia contributed only 15. There were also 21 notable models resulting fromindustry-academia collaborations in 2023, a new high.

2. More foundation models and more open foundation models. In 2023, a total of 149 foundation
models were released, more than double the amount released in 2022. Of these newly released models, 65.7%
were open-source, compared to only 44.4% in 2022 and 33.3% in 2021.

3. Frontier models get way more expensive. According to AI Index estimates, the training costs ofstate-of-the-art AI models have reached unprecedented levels. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an estimated$78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.

4. The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AI
models. In 2023, 61 notable AI models originated from U.S.-based institutions, far outpacing the European
Union’s 21 and China’s 15.

5. The number of AI patents skyrockets. From 2021 to 2022, AI patent grants worldwide increased
sharply by 62.7%. Since 2010, the number of granted AI patents has increased more than 31 times.

6. China dominates AI patents. In 2022, China led global AI patent origins with 61.1%, significantly
outpacing the United States, which accounted for 20.9% of AI patent origins. Since 2010, the U.S. share of AI
patents has decreased from 54.1%.

7. Open-source AI research explodes. Since 2011, the number of AI-related projects on GitHub has
seen a consistent increase, growing from 845 in 2011 to approximately 1.8 million in 2023. Notably, there was a
sharp 59.3% rise in the total number of GitHub AI projects in 2023 alone. The total number of stars for AI-related
projects on GitHub also significantly increased in 2023, more than tripling from 4.0 million in 2022 to 12.2 million.

8. The number of AI publications continues to rise. Between 2010 and 2022, the total number of AI
publications nearly tripled, rising from approximately 88,000 in 2010 to more than 240,000 in 2022. The increaseover the last year was a modest 1.1%.
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Report Highlights
Chapter 2: Technical Performance
1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all. AI has surpassed human performance on several
benchmarks, including some in image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Yet it trails
behind on more complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning and planning.

2. Here comes multimodal AI. Traditionally AI systems have been limited in scope, with language models
excelling in text comprehension but faltering in image processing, and vice versa. However, recent advancements
have led to the development of strong multimodal models, such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4. Thesemodels demonstrate flexibility and are capable of handling images and text and, in some instances, can evenprocess audio.

3. Harder benchmarks emerge. AI models have reached performance saturation on establishedbenchmarks such as ImageNet, SQuAD, and SuperGLUE, prompting researchers to develop more challenging
ones. In 2023, several challenging new benchmarks emerged, including SWE-bench for coding, HEIM for image
generation, MMMU for general reasoning, MoCa for moral reasoning, AgentBench for agent-based behavior, andHaluEval for hallucinations.

4. Better AI means better data which means … even better AI. New AI models such as
SegmentAnything and Skoltech are being used to generate specialized data for tasks like image segmentation and
3D reconstruction. Data is vital for AI technical improvements. The use of AI to create more data enhances current
capabilities and paves the way for future algorithmic improvements, especially on harder tasks.

5. Human evaluation is in. With generative models producing high-quality text, images, and more,
benchmarking has slowly started shifting toward incorporating human evaluations like the Chatbot Arena
Leaderboard rather than computerized rankings like ImageNet or SQuAD. Public sentiment about AI is becoming
an increasingly important consideration in tracking AI progress.

6. Thanks to LLMs, robots have become more flexible. The fusion of language modeling withrobotics has given rise to more flexible robotic systems like PaLM-E and RT-2. Beyond their improved robotic
capabilities, these models can ask questions, which marks a significant step toward robots that can interact more
effectively with the real world.

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Chapter 2: Technical Performance (cont’d)
7. More technical research in agentic AI. Creating AI agents, systems capable of autonomous operationin specific environments, has long challenged computer scientists. However, emerging research suggests thatthe performance of autonomous AI agents is improving. Current agents can now master complex games like
Minecraft and effectively tackle real-world tasks, such as online shopping and research assistance.

8. Closed LLMs significantly outperform open ones. On 10 select AI benchmarks, closed models
outperformed open ones, with a median performance advantage of 24.2%. Differences in the performance of
closed and open models carry important implications for AI policy debates.

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Report Highlights
Chapter 3: Responsible AI
1. Robust and standardized evaluations for LLM responsibility are seriously lacking.
New research from the AI Index reveals a significant lack of standardization in responsible AI reporting. Leading
developers, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, primarily test their models against different responsible AI
benchmarks. This practice complicates efforts to systematically compare the risks and limitations of top AI models.

2. Political deepfakes are easy to generate and difficult to detect. Political deepfakes are alreadyaffecting elections across the world, with recent research suggesting that existing AI deepfake methods performwith varying levels of accuracy. In addition, new projects like CounterCloud demonstrate how easily AI can createand disseminate fake content.

3. Researchers discover more complex vulnerabilities in LLMs. Previously, most efforts to
red team AI models focused on testing adversarial prompts that intuitively made sense to humans. This year,
researchers found less obvious strategies to get LLMs to exhibit harmful behavior, like asking the models to
infinitely repeat random words.

4. Risks from AI are becoming a concern for businesses across the globe. A global survey on
responsible AI highlights that companies’ top AI-related concerns include privacy, data security, and reliability.
The survey shows that organizations are beginning to take steps to mitigate these risks. Globally, however, mostcompanies have so far only mitigated a small portion of these risks.

5. LLMs can output copyrighted material. Multiple researchers have shown that the generative outputsof popular LLMs may contain copyrighted material, such as excerpts from The New York Times or scenes frommovies. Whether such output constitutes copyright violations is becoming a central legal question.

6. AI developers score low on transparency, with consequences for research. The newly
introduced Foundation Model Transparency Index shows that AI developers lack transparency, especiallyregarding the disclosure of training data and methodologies. This lack of openness hinders efforts to further
understand the robustness and safety of AI systems.

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Chapter 3: Responsible AI (cont’d)
7. Extreme AI risks are difficult to analyze. Over the past year, a substantial debate has emerged among
AI scholars and practitioners regarding the focus on immediate model risks, like algorithmic discrimination, versus
potential long-term existential threats. It has become challenging to distinguish which claims are scientificallyfounded and should inform policymaking. This difficulty is compounded by the tangible nature of already present
short-term risks in contrast with the theoretical nature of existential threats.

8. The number of AI incidents continues to rise. According to the AI Incident Database, which tracks
incidents related to the misuse of AI, 123 incidents were reported in 2023, a 32.3 percentage point increase from2022. Since 2013, AI incidents have grown by over twentyfold. A notable example includes AI-generated, sexually
explicit deepfakes of Taylor Swift that were widely shared online.

9. ChatGPT is politically biased. Researchers find a significant bias in ChatGPT toward Democrats in the
United States and the Labour Party in the U.K. This finding raises concerns about the tool’s potential to influence
users’ political views, particularly in a year marked by major global elections.

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Report Highlights
Chapter 4: Economy
1. Generative AI investment skyrockets. Despite a decline in overall AI private investment last year,
funding for generative AI surged, nearly octupling from 2022 to reach $25.2 billion. Major players in the generative
AI space, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Inflection, reported substantial fundraising rounds.

2. Already a leader, the United States pulls even further ahead in AI private investment.
In 2023, the United States saw AI investments reach $67.2 billion, nearly 8.7 times more than China, the next
highest investor. While private AI investment in China and the European Union, including the United Kingdom,
declined by 44.2% and 14.1%, respectively, since 2022, the United States experienced a notable increase of 22.1%
in the same time frame.

3. Fewer AI jobs in the United States and across the globe. In 2022, AI-related positions madeup 2.0% of all job postings in America, a figure that decreased to 1.6% in 2023. This decline in AI job listings is
attributed to fewer postings from leading AI firms and a reduced proportion of tech roles within these companies.

4. AI decreases costs and increases revenues. A new McKinsey survey reveals that 42% of surveyedorganizations report cost reductions from implementing AI (including generative AI), and 59% report revenue
increases. Compared to the previous year, there was a 10 percentage point increase in respondents reporting
decreased costs, suggesting AI is driving significant business efficiency gains.

5. Total AI private investment declines again, while the number of newly funded AI
companies increases. Global private AI investment has fallen for the second year in a row, though less than
the sharp decrease from 2021 to 2022. The count of newly funded AI companies spiked to 1,812, up 40.6% fromthe previous year.

6. AI organizational adoption ticks up. A 2023 McKinsey report reveals that 55% of organizations now
use AI (including generative AI) in at least one business unit or function, up from 50% in 2022 and 20% in 2017.

7. China dominates industrial robotics. Since surpassing Japan in 2013 as the leading installer ofindustrial robots, China has significantly widened the gap with the nearest competitor nation. In 2013, China’s
installations accounted for 20.8% of the global total, a share that rose to 52.4% by 2022.

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Chapter 4: Economy (cont’d)
8. Greater diversity in robot installations. In 2017, collaborative robots represented a mere 2.8% of all
new industrial robot installations, a figure that climbed to 9.9% by 2022. Similarly, 2022 saw a rise in service robot
installations across all application categories, except for medical robotics. This trend indicates not just an overall
increase in robot installations but also a growing emphasis on deploying robots for human-facing roles.

9. The data is in: AI makes workers more productive and leads to higher quality work.
In 2023, several studies assessed AI’s impact on labor, suggesting that AI enables workers to complete tasks more
quickly and to improve the quality of their output. These studies also demonstrated AI’s potential to bridge the skill
gap between low- and high-skilled workers. Still, other studies caution that using AI without proper oversight canlead to diminished performance.

10. Fortune 500 companies start talking a lot about AI, especially generative AI. In 2023,
AI was mentioned in 394 earnings calls (nearly 80% of all Fortune 500 companies), a notable increase from
266 mentions in 2022. Since 2018, mentions of AI in Fortune 500 earnings calls have nearly doubled. The mostfrequently cited theme, appearing in 19.7% of all earnings calls, was generative AI.

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Report Highlights
Chapter 5: Science and Medicine
1. Scientific progress accelerates even further, thanks to AI. In 2022, AI began to advancescientific discovery. 2023, however, saw the launch of even more significant science-related AI applications—from AlphaDev, which makes algorithmic sorting more efficient, to GNoME, which facilitates the process ofmaterials discovery.

2. AI helps medicine take significant strides forward. In 2023, several significant medical systems
were launched, including EVEscape, which enhances pandemic prediction, and AlphaMissence, which assists in
AI-driven mutation classification. AI is increasingly being utilized to propel medical advancements.

3. Highly knowledgeable medical AI has arrived. Over the past few years, AI systems have shown
remarkable improvement on the MedQA benchmark, a key test for assessing AI’s clinical knowledge. The
standout model of 2023, GPT-4 Medprompt, reached an accuracy rate of 90.2%, marking a 22.6 percentage
point increase from the highest score in 2022. Since the benchmark’s introduction in 2019, AI performance on
MedQA has nearly tripled.

4. The FDA approves more and more AI-related medical devices. In 2022, the FDA approved 139
AI-related medical devices, a 12.1% increase from 2021. Since 2012, the number of FDA-approved AI-related medical
devices has increased by more than 45-fold. AI is increasingly being used for real-world medical purposes.

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Report Highlights
Chapter 6: Education
1. The number of American and Canadian CS bachelor’s graduates continues to rise, newCS master’s graduates stay relatively flat, and PhD graduates modestly grow. While thenumber of new American and Canadian bachelor’s graduates has consistently risen for more than a decade, thenumber of students opting for graduate education in CS has flattened. Since 2018, the number of CS master’s and
PhD graduates has slightly declined.

2. The migration of AI PhDs to industry continues at an accelerating pace. In 2011, roughly
equal percentages of new AI PhDs took jobs in industry (40.9%) and academia (41.6%). However, by 2022, asignificantly larger proportion (70.7%) joined industry after graduation compared to those entering academia(20.0%). Over the past year alone, the share of industry-bound AI PhDs has risen by 5.3 percentage points,
indicating an intensifying brain drain from universities into industry.

3. Less transition of academic talent from industry to academia. In 2019, 13% of new AI facultyin the United States and Canada were from industry. By 2021, this figure had declined to 11%, and in 2022, it
further dropped to 7%. This trend indicates a progressively lower migration of high-level AI talent from industry
into academia.

4. CS education in the United States and Canada becomes less international. Proportionallyfewer international CS bachelor’s, master’s, and PhDs graduated in 2022 than in 2021. The drop in international
students in the master’s category was especially pronounced.

5. More American high school students take CS courses, but access problems remain.
In 2022, 201,000 AP CS exams were administered. Since 2007, the number of students taking these exams has
increased more than tenfold. However, recent evidence indicates that students in larger high schools and those insuburban areas are more likely to have access to CS courses.

6. AI-related degree programs are on the rise internationally. The number of English-language,
AI-related postsecondary degree programs has tripled since 2017, showing a steady annual increase over the past
five years. Universities worldwide are offering more AI-focused degree programs.

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7. The United Kingdom and Germany lead in European informatics, CS, CE, and IT
graduate production. The United Kingdom and Germany lead Europe in producing the highest numberof new informatics, CS, CE, and information bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD graduates. On a per capita basis,
Finland leads in the production of both bachelor’s and PhD graduates, while Ireland leads in the production ofmaster’s graduates.

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Chapter 7: Policy and Governance
1. The number of AI regulations in the United States sharply increases. The number of AI-related
regulations has risen significantly in the past year and over the last five years. In 2023, there were 25 AI-related
regulations, up from just one in 2016. Last year alone, the total number of AI-related regulations grew by 56.3%.

2. The United States and the European Union advance landmark AI policy action. In 2023,
policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic put forth substantial proposals for advancing AI regulation The
European Union reached a deal on the terms of the AI Act, a landmark piece of legislation enacted in 2024.
Meanwhile, President Biden signed an Executive Order on AI, the most notable AI policy initiative in the UnitedStates that year.

3. AI captures U.S. policymaker attention. The year 2023 witnessed a remarkable increase in AI-related
legislation at the federal level, with 181 bills proposed, more than double the 88 proposed in 2022.

4. Policymakers across the globe cannot stop talking about AI. Mentions of AI in legislative
proceedings across the globe have nearly doubled, rising from 1,247 in 2022 to 2,175 in 2023. AI was mentioned in
the legislative proceedings of 49 countries in 2023. Moreover, at least one country from every continent discussed
AI in 2023, underscoring the truly global reach of AI policy discourse.

5. More regulatory agencies turn their attention toward AI. The number of U.S. regulatory agencies
issuing AI regulations increased to 21 in 2023 from 17 in 2022, indicating a growing concern over AI regulation
among a broader array of American regulatory bodies. Some of the new regulatory agencies that enacted AIrelated regulations for the first time in 2023 include the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy,
and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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Report Highlights
Chapter 8: Diversity
1. U.S. and Canadian bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD CS students continue to grow more
ethnically diverse. While white students continue to be the most represented ethnicity among new resident
graduates at all three levels, the representation from other ethnic groups, such as Asian, Hispanic, and Black or
African American students, continues to grow. For instance, since 2011, the proportion of Asian CS bachelor’s
degree graduates has increased by 19.8 percentage points, and the proportion of Hispanic CS bachelor’s degree
graduates has grown by 5.2 percentage points.

2. Substantial gender gaps persist in European informatics, CS, CE, and IT graduates atall educational levels. Every surveyed European country reported more male than female graduates inbachelor’s, master’s, and PhD programs for informatics, CS, CE, and IT. While the gender gaps have narrowed inmost countries over the last decade, the rate of this narrowing has been slow.

3. U.S. K–12 CS education is growing more diverse, reflecting changes in both gender andethnic representation. The proportion of AP CS exams taken by female students rose from 16.8% in 2007 to
30.5% in 2022. Similarly, the participation of Asian, Hispanic/Latino/Latina, and Black/African American students
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Report Highlights
Chapter 9: Public Opinion
1. People across the globe are more cognizant of AI’s potential impact—and more nervous.
A survey from Ipsos shows that, over the last year, the proportion of those who think AI will dramatically affecttheir lives in the next three to five years has increased from 60% to 66%. Moreover, 52% express nervousness
toward AI products and services, marking a 13 percentage point rise from 2022. In America, Pew data suggeststhat 52% of Americans report feeling more concerned than excited about AI, rising from 38% in 2022.

2. AI sentiment in Western nations continues to be low, but is slowly improving. In 2022,
several developed Western nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Canada, andthe United States, were among the least positive about AI products and services. Since then, each of thesecountries has seen a rise in the proportion of respondents acknowledging the benefits of AI, with the Netherlands
experiencing the most significant shift.

3. The public is pessimistic about AI’s economic impact. In an Ipsos survey, only 37% of
respondents feel AI will improve their job. Only 34% anticipate AI will boost the economy, and 32% believe it will
enhance the job market.

4. Demographic differences emerge regarding AI optimism. Significant demographic
differences exist in perceptions of AI’s potential to enhance livelihoods, with younger generations generally
more optimistic. For instance, 59% of Gen Z respondents believe AI will improve entertainment options,versus only 40% of baby boomers. Additionally, individuals with higher incomes and education levels are more
optimistic about AI’s positive impacts on entertainment, health, and the economy than their lower-income andless-educated counterparts.

5. ChatGPT is widely known and widely used. An international survey from the University of Toronto
suggests that 63% of respondents are aware of ChatGPT. Of those aware, around half report using ChatGPT atleast once weekly.

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1.4 AI Conferences

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Overview
This chapter studies trends in AI research and development. It begins by examining
trends in AI publications and patents, and then examines trends in notable AI systems andfoundation models. It concludes by analyzing AI conference attendance and open-source
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1. Industry continues to dominate frontier AI research. In 2023, industry produced 51 notablemachine learning models, while academia contributed only 15. There were also 21 notable models resulting fromindustry-academia collaborations in 2023, a new high.

2. More foundation models and more open foundation models. In 2023, a total of 149 foundation
models were released, more than double the amount released in 2022. Of these newly released models, 65.7%
were open-source, compared to only 44.4% in 2022 and 33.3% in 2021.

3. Frontier models get way more expensive. According to AI Index estimates, the training costs ofstate-of-the-art AI models have reached unprecedented levels. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-4 used an estimated$78 million worth of compute to train, while Google’s Gemini Ultra cost $191 million for compute.

4. The United States leads China, the EU, and the U.K. as the leading source of top AI
models. In 2023, 61 notable AI models originated from U.S.-based institutions, far outpacing the European
Union’s 21 and China’s 15.

5. The number of AI patents skyrockets. From 2021 to 2022, AI patent grants worldwide increased
sharply by 62.7%. Since 2010, the number of granted AI patents has increased more than 31 times.

6. China dominates AI patents. In 2022, China led global AI patent origins with 61.1%, significantly
outpacing the United States, which accounted for 20.9% of AI patent origins. Since 2010, the U.S. share of AI
patents has decreased from 54.1%.

7. Open-source AI research explodes. Since 2011, the number of AI-related projects on GitHub has
seen a consistent increase, growing from 845 in 2011 to approximately 1.8 million in 2023. Notably, there was a
sharp 59.3% rise in the total number of GitHub AI projects in 2023 alone. The total number of stars for AI-related
projects on GitHub also significantly increased in 2023, more than tripling from 4.0 million in 2022 to 12.2 million.

8. The number of AI publications continues to rise. Between 2010 and 2022, the total number of AI
publications nearly tripled, rising from approximately 88,000 in 2010 to more than 240,000 in 2022. The increaseover the last year was a modest 1.1%.

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Overview

Total Number of AI Publications1

The figures below present the global count of

Figure 1.1.1 displays the global count of AI publications.

English-language AI publications from 2010 to

Between 2010 and 2022, the total number of AI

2022, categorized by type of affiliation and cross-publications nearly tripled, rising from approximately

sector collaborations. Additionally, this section

88,000 in 2010 to more than 240,000 in 2022. The

details publication data for AI journal articles andincrease over the last year was a modest 1.1%.

conference papers.

Number of AI publications in the world, 2010–22

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available only up to 2022 due to a significant lag in updating publication data. Readers are advised to approach publication figures with appropriate caution.

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By Type of Publication
Figure 1.1.2 illustrates the distribution of AI publication

journal and conference publications have increased

types globally over time. In 2022, there were roughly

at comparable rates. In 2022, there were 2.6 times as

230,000 AI journal articles compared to roughly

many conference publications and 2.4 times as many

42,000 conference submissions. Since 2015, AI

journal publications as there were in 2015.

Number of AI publications by type, 2010–22

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232.67, Journal

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By Field of Study
Figure 1.1.3 examines the total number of AI

sevenfold since 2015. Following machine learning, thepublications by field of study since 2010. Machine

most published AI fields in 2022 were computer vision

learning publications have seen the most rapid(21,309 publications), pattern recognition (19,841), andgrowth over the past decade, increasing nearlyprocess management (12,052).

Number of AI publications by eld of study (excluding Other AI), 2010–22
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By Sector
This section presents the distribution of AI

publications (81.1%), maintaining its position as the

publications by sector—education, government,

leading global source of AI research over the pastindustry, nonprofit, and other—globally and thendecade across all regions (Figure 1.1.4 and Figure 1.1.5).

specifically within the United States, China, and theIndustry participation is most significant in the United

European Union plus the United Kingdom. In 2022,

States, followed by the European Union plus the United

the academic sector contributed the majority of AI

Kingdom, and China (Figure 1.1.5).

AI publications (% of total) by sector, 2010–22

Source: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

81.07%, Education

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Figure 1.1.6 illustrates the total number of AI journal publications from 2010 to 2022. The number of AI journal
publications experienced modest growth from 2010 to 2015 but grew approximately 2.4 times since 2015.
Between 2021 and 2022, AI journal publications saw a 4.5% increase.

Number of AI journal publications, 2010–22

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years, climbing from 22,727 in 2020 to 31,629 in

Figure 1.1.7 visualizes the total number of AI conference

alone, there was a 30.2% increase in AI conference

publications since 2010. The number of AI conference

publications. Since 2010, the number of AI

publications has seen a notable rise in the past two

conference publications has more than doubled.

2021, and reaching 41,174 in 2022. Over the last year

Number of AI conference publications, 2010–22

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This section examines trends over time in global AI patents, which can reveal important insights into the evolution of
innovation, research, and development within AI. Additionally, analyzing AI patents can reveal how these advancements
are distributed globally. Similar to the publications data, there is a noticeable delay in AI patent data availability, with
2022 being the most recent year for which data is accessible. The data in this section comes from CSET.

1.2 Patents
AI Patents
Overview
Figure 1.2.1 examines the global growth in granted

years. For instance, between 2010 and 2014, the total

AI patents from 2010 to 2022. Over the last decade,growth in granted AI patents was 56.1%. However,there has been a significant rise in the number of AI

from 2021 to 2022 alone, the number of AI patents

patents, with a particularly sharp increase in recent

increased by 62.7%.

Number of AI patents granted, 2010–22

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By Filing Status and Region(62,264). Over time, the landscape of AI patent

The following section disaggregates AI patents by
their filing status (whether they were granted or notgranted), as well as the region of their publication.

approvals has shifted markedly. Until 2015, a larger
proportion of filed AI patents were granted. However,since then, the majority of AI patent filings have not

Figure 1.2.2 compares global AI patents by application

been granted, with the gap widening significantly. For

status. In 2022, the number of ungranted AI patents

instance, in 2015, 42.2% of all filed AI patents were not(128,952) was more than double the amount granted

granted. By 2022, this figure had risen to 67.4%.

AI patents by application status, 2010–22

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The gap between granted and not granted AI(Figure 1.2.3). In recent years, all three geographic

patents is evident across all major patent-originatingareas have experienced an increase in both the total

geographic areas, including China, the European

number of AI patent filings and the number ofUnion and United Kingdom, and the United States

patents granted.

AI patents by application status by geographic area, 2010–22
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Figure 1.2.4 showcases the regional breakdown

North America led in the number of global AI patents.

of granted AI patents. As of 2022, the bulk of the

However, since then, there has been a significant

world’s granted AI patents (75.2%) originated fromshift toward an increasing proportion of AI patents

East Asia and the Pacific, with North America being

originating from East Asia and the Pacific.

the next largest contributor at 21.2%. Up until 2011,

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Disaggregated by geographic area, the majority of the world’s granted AI patents are from China (61.1%) and theUnited States (20.9%) (Figure 1.2.5). The share of AI patents originating from the United States has declined from
54.1% in 2010.

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Figure 1.2.6 and Figure 1.2.7 document which(Figure 1.2.6). Figure 1.2.7 highlights the change incountries lead in AI patents per capita. In 2022, thegranted AI patents per capita from 2012 to 2022.

country with the most granted AI patents per 100,000

Singapore, South Korea, and China experienced the

inhabitants was South Korea (10.3), followed bygreatest increase in AI patenting per capita during

Luxembourg (8.8) and the United States (4.2)

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This section explores the frontier of AI research. While many new AI models are introduced annually, only a small
sample represents the most advanced research. Admittedly what constitutes advanced or frontier research issomewhat subjective. Frontier research could reflect a model posting a new state-of-the-art result on a benchmark,introducing a meaningful new architecture, or exercising some impressive new capabilities.
The AI Index studies trends in two types of frontier AI models: “notable models” and foundation models.3 Epoch, an
AI Index data provider, uses the term “notable machine learning models” to designate noteworthy models handpicked
as being particularly influential within the AI/machine learning ecosystem. In contrast, foundation models are
exceptionally large AI models trained on massive datasets, capable of performing a multitude of downstream tasks.
Examples of foundation models include GPT-4, Claude 3, and Gemini. While many foundation models may qualify as
notable models, not all notable models are foundation models.
Within this section, the AI Index explores trends in notable models and foundation models from various perspectives,
including originating organization, country of origin, parameter count, and compute usage. The analysis concludes
with an examination of machine learning training costs.

1.3 Frontier AI Research
General Machine Learning
Modelsentries based on criteria such as state-of-theart advancements, historical significance, or highcitation rates. Analyzing these models provides a

Overview

comprehensive overview of the machine learning

Epoch AI is a group of researchers dedicated tolandscape’s evolution, both in recent years and overstudying and predicting the evolution of advanced

the past few decades.4 Some models may be missing

AI. They maintain a database of AI and machinefrom the dataset; however, the dataset can reveal

learning models released since the 1950s, selecting

trends in relative terms.

3 “AI system” refers to a computer program or product based on AI, such as ChatGPT. “AI model” refers to a collection of parameters whose values are learned during training, such as GPT-4.
4 New and historic models are continually added to the Epoch database, so the total year-by-year counts of models included in this year’s AI Index might not exactly match those published inlast year’s report.

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Until 2014, academia led in the release of machine

Creating cutting-edge AI models now demands alearning models. Since then, industry has taken

substantial amount of data, computing power, andthe lead. In 2023, there were 51 notable machine

financial resources that are not available in academia.

learning models produced by industry compared toThis shift toward increased industrial dominance injust 15 from academia (Figure 1.3.1). Significantly, 21

leading AI models was first highlighted in last year’s

notable models resulted from industry/academic

AI Index report. Although this year the gap has slightly

collaborations in 2023, a new high.

narrowed, the trend largely persists.

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Number of notable machine learning models bygeographic area, 2023
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In 2023, the United States led with 61 notable

the European Union and the United Kingdom
together have surpassed China in the number ofnotable AI models produced (Figure 1.3.3). Since02003, the United States has produced more models

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than other major geographic regions such as the

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United Kingdom, China, and Canada (Figure 1.3.4).

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5 A machine learning model is considered associated with a specific country if at least one author of the paper introducing it has an affiliation with an institution based in that country. In cases
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Parameter Trends
Parameters in machine learning models are numericaloriginate. Parameter counts have risen sharply sincevalues learned during training that determine how athe early 2010s, reflecting the growing complexity

model interprets input data and makes predictions.

of tasks AI models are designed for, the greater

Models trained on more data will usually have moreavailability of data, improvements in hardware, andparameters than those trained on less data. Likewise,

proven efficacy of larger models. High-parametermodels with more parameters typically outperform

models are particularly notable in the industry sector,

those with fewer parameters.

underscoring the capacity of companies like OpenAI,
Anthropic, and Google to bear the computational

Figure 1.3.5 demonstrates the parameter count ofcosts of training on vast volumes of data.

machine learning models in the Epoch dataset,
categorized by the sector from which the models

Number of parameters of notable machine learning models by sector, 2003–23
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Compute Trends

for notable machine learning models in the last

The term “compute” in AI models denotes the

20 years. Recently, the compute usage of notablecomputational resources required to train and operate

AI models has increased exponentially.6 Thisa machine learning model. Generally, the complexity

trend has been especially pronounced in the lastof the model and the size of the training dataset

five years. This rapid rise in compute demand

directly influence the amount of compute needed.

has critical implications. For instance, models

The more complex a model is, and the larger therequiring more computation often have larger

underlying training data, the greater the amount ofenvironmental footprints, and companies typicallycompute required for training.

have more access to computational resources
than academic institutions.

Figure 1.3.6 visualizes the training compute required

Training compute of notable machine learning models by sector, 2003–23
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division. The number of FLOPs a processor or computer can perform per second is an indicator of its computational power. The higher the FLOP rate, the more powerful the computer is.
An AI model with a higher FLOP rate reflects its requirement for more computational resources during training.

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Figure 1.3.7 highlights the training compute of notable

The original Transformer, released in 2017, required

machine learning models since 2012. For example,

around 7,400 petaFLOPs. Google’s Gemini Ultra, one

AlexNet, one of the papers that popularized the nowof the current state-of-the-art foundation models,standard practice of using GPUs to improve AI models,required 50 billion petaFLOPs.

required an estimated 470 petaFLOPs for training.

Training compute of notable machine learning models by domain, 2012–23
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Will Models Run Out of Data?
As illustrated above, a significant proportion ofrecent algorithmic progress, including progressbehind powerful LLMs, has been achieved bytraining models on increasingly larger amounts ofProjections of ML data exhaustion by stock type:median and 90% CI dates
Source: Epoch, 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

Stock type

Historical projection

Compute projection

Low-quality
language stock

2032.4 [2028.4; 2039.2]

2040.5 [2034.6; 2048.9]

and AI Index Steering Committee member Jack

High-quality
language stock2024.5 [2023.5; 2025.7]

2024.1 [2023.2; 2025.3]

Clark, foundation models have been trained on

Image stock

2046 [2037; 2062.8]

2038.8 [2032; 2049.8]

data. As noted recently by Anthropic cofoundermeaningful percentages of all the data that has

Figure 1.3.8

ever existed on the internet.
The growing data dependency of AI models
has led to concerns that future generations ofcomputer scientists will run out of data to further
scale and improve their systems. Research from
Epoch suggests that these concerns are somewhat
warranted. Epoch researchers have generated
historical and compute-based projections forwhen AI researchers might expect to run outof data. The historical projections are based on
observed growth rates in the sizes of data used totrain foundation models. The compute projections
adjust the historical growth rate based on
projections of compute availability.

data, which is data generated by AI models
themselves. For example, it is possible to use
text produced by one LLM to train another LLM.
The use of synthetic data for training AI systems
is particularly attractive, not only as a solution
for potential data depletion but also because
generative AI systems could, in principle, generate
data in instances where naturally occurring datais sparse—for example, data for rare diseases orunderrepresented populations. Until recently, thefeasibility and effectiveness of using synthetic
data for training generative AI systems were notwell understood. However, research this year has

For instance, the researchers estimate thatsuggested that there are limitations associated withcomputer scientists could deplete the stock oftraining models on synthetic data.

high-quality language data by 2024, exhaust low-

For instance, a team of British and Canadianquality language data within two decades, anduse up image data by the late 2030s to mid-2040s(Figure 1.3.8).

researchers discovered that models predominantly
trained on synthetic data experience model
collapse, a phenomenon where, over time, they

Theoretically, the challenge of limited data

lose the ability to remember true underlying data

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outputs. Figure 1.3.9 demonstrates the process ofover time, the generations of models trainedmodel collapse in a variational autoencoder (VAE)

predominantly on synthetic data become lessmodel, a widely used generative AI architecture.

varied and are not as widely distributed.

With each subsequent generation trained on
additional synthetic data, the model produces anincreasingly limited set of outputs. As illustrated
in Figure 1.3.10, in statistical terms, as the numberof synthetic generations increases, the tails of the
distributions vanish, and the generation density
shifts toward the mean.7 This pattern means that

The authors demonstrate that this phenomenon
occurs across various model types, including
Gaussian Mixture Models and LLMs. This researchunderscores the continued importance of humangenerated data for training capable LLMs that can
produce a diverse array of content.

A demonstration of model collapse in a VAE
Source: Shumailov et al., 2023

Figure 1.3.9

7 In the context of generative models, density refers to the level of complexity and variation in the outputs produced by an AI model. Models that have a higher generation density
produce a wider range of higher-quality outputs. Models with low generation density produce a narrower range of more simplistic outputs.

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In a similar study published in 2023 on the use

generated images declines. Figure 1.3.11 highlights

of synthetic data in generative imaging models,

the degraded image generations of models that are

researchers found that generative image models

augmented with synthetic data; for example, thetrained solely on synthetic data cycles—or withfaces generated in steps 7 and 9 increasingly display

insufficient real human data—experience a

strange-looking hash marks. From a statisticalsignificant drop in output quality. The authors

perspective, images generated with both synthetic

label this phenomenon Model Autophagy Disorderdata and synthetic augmentation loops have higher(MAD), in reference to mad cow disease.

FID scores (indicating less similarity to real images),

The study examines two types of training processes:
fully synthetic, where models are trained exclusively
on synthetic data, and synthetic augmentation,
where models are trained on a mix of synthetic
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lower precision scores (signifying reduced realismor quality), and lower recall scores (suggesting
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augmentation loops, which incorporate some realdata, show less degradation than fully synthetic
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An example of MAD in image-generation models
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Figure 1.3.11

Assessing FFHQ syntheses: FID, precision, and recall in synthetic and mixed-data training loops
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Model Release

Foundation models represent a rapidly evolving

ways. No access models, like Google’s PaLM-E, areand popular category of AI models. Trained on vast

only accessible to their developers. Limited accessdatasets, they are versatile and suitable for numerous

models, like OpenAI’s GPT-4, offer limited access todownstream applications. Foundation models such as

the models, often through a public API. Open models,GPT-4, Claude 3, and Llama 2 showcase remarkable

like Meta’s Llama 2, fully release model weights, which

abilities and are increasingly being deployed in real-means the models can be modified and freely used.

Foundation models can be accessed in different

world scenarios.

Figure 1.3.13 visualizes the total number of foundation

Introduced in 2023, the Ecosystem Graphs is a newmodels by access type since 2019. In recent years, thecommunity resource from Stanford that tracks thenumber of foundation models has risen sharply, more

foundation model ecosystem, including datasets,

than doubling since 2022 and growing by a factor ofmodels, and applications. This section uses data fromnearly 38 since 2019. Of the 149 foundation models

the Ecosystem Graphs to study trends in foundation

released in 2023, 98 were open, 23 limited and 28

models over time.

no access.

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In 2023, the majority of foundation models were released as open access (65.8%), with 18.8% having no accessand 15.4% limited access (Figure 1.3.14). Since 2021, there has been a significant increase in the proportion ofmodels released with open access.

Foundation models (% of total) by access type, 2019–23
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Organizational Affiliationfrom industry. Only 18.8% of foundation models in

Figure 1.3.15 plots the sector from which foundation

2023 originated from academia. Since 2019, an evermodels have originated since 2019. In 2023, thelarger number of foundation models are coming

majority of foundation models (72.5%) originatedfrom industry.

Number of foundation models by sector, 2019–23
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Figure 1.3.16 highlights the source of various foundation models that were released in 2023. Google introduced
the most models (18), followed by Meta (11), and Microsoft (9). The academic institution that released the mostfoundation models in 2023 was UC Berkeley (3).

Number of foundation models by organization, 2023
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Since 2019, Google has led in releasing the most foundation models, with a total of 40, followed by OpenAI with
20 (Figure 1.3.17). Tsinghua University stands out as the top non-Western institution, with seven foundation model
releases, while Stanford University is the leading American academic institution, with five releases.

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National Affiliation
Given that foundation models are fairly

Number of foundation models by geographic area,
2023
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representative of frontier AI research, from

United Statesa geopolitical perspective, it is important toChina

understand their national affiliations. Figures 1.3.18,
1.3.19, and 1.3.20 visualize the national affiliations

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United Kingdom

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4

Canada3of various foundation models. As with the notable

Singapore 2

model analysis presented earlier in the chapter,

Israel 2

a model is deemed affiliated with a country if aGermany 2
Finland 2

researcher contributing to that model is affiliatedTaiwan 1

with an institution headquartered in that country.

Switzerland 1
Sweden 1

In 2023, most of the world’s foundation models

Spain 1

originated from the United States (109), followed by

France 1

China (20), and the United Kingdom (Figure 1.3.18).

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in originating the majority of foundation models

Figure 1.3.18(Figure 1.3.19).

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Figure 1.3.20 depicts the cumulative count of foundation models released and attributed to respective countries
since 2019. The country with the greatest number of foundation models released since 2019 is the United States(182), followed by China (30), and the United Kingdom (21).

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1.3 Frontier AI ResearchTraining Costmodels in last year’s publication. This year, the AI

A prominent topic in discussions about foundation

institute, to substantially enhance and solidify themodels is their speculated costs. While AI

robustness of its AI training cost estimates.9 To

companies seldom reveal the expenses involved

estimate the cost of cutting-edge models, the Epochin training their models, it is widely believed thatteam analyzed training duration, as well as the type,these costs run into millions of dollars and arequantity, and utilization rate of the training hardware,rising. For instance, OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman,

using information from publications, press releases, or

mentioned that the training cost for GPT-4 was overtechnical reports related to the models.10

Index has collaborated with Epoch AI, an AI research$100 million. This escalation in training expenses
has effectively excluded universities, traditionallycenters of AI research, from developing their own
leading-edge foundation models. In response, policy
initiatives, such as President Biden’s Executive Orderon AI, have sought to level the playing field between
industry and academia by creating a National AI
Research Resource, which would grant nonindustry
actors the compute and data needed to do higher
level AI-research.

Figure 1.3.21 visualizes the estimated training costassociated with select AI models, based on cloudcompute rental prices. AI Index estimates validate
suspicions that in recent years model training costs
have significantly increased. For example, in 2017,
the original Transformer model, which introduced thearchitecture that underpins virtually every modern
LLM, cost around $900 to train.11 RoBERTa Large,
released in 2019, which achieved state-of-the-art
results on many canonical comprehension benchmarks

Understanding the cost of training AI models is

like SQuAD and GLUE, cost around $160,000 to train.

important, yet detailed information on these costs

Fast-forward to 2023, and training costs for OpenAI’s

remains scarce. The AI Index was among the first to

GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra are estimated to beoffer estimates on the training costs of foundation

around $78 million and $191 million, respectively.

9 Ben Cottier and Robi Rahman led research at Epoch AI into model training cost.
10 A detailed description of the estimation methodology is provided in the Appendix.
11 The cost figures reported in this section are inflation-adjusted.

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Figure 1.3.22 visualizes the training cost of all AI models for which the AI Index has estimates. As the figure shows,model training costs have sharply increased over time.

Estimated training cost of select AI models, 2016–23
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Gemini Ultra
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As established in previous AI Index reports, there is a direct correlation between the training costs of AI models
and their computational requirements. As illustrated in Figure 1.3.23, models with greater computational training
needs cost substantially more to train.

Estimated training cost and compute of select AI models
Source: Epoch, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Gemini Ultra
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AI conferences serve as essential platforms for researchers to present their findings and network with peers andcollaborators. Over the past two decades, these conferences have expanded in scale, quantity, and prestige.
This section explores trends in attendance at major AI conferences.

1.4 AI Conferences
Conference Attendance
Figure 1.4.1 graphs attendance at a selection ofSpecifically, there was a 6.7% rise in total attendance

AI conferences since 2010. Following a decline inover the last year. Since 2015, the annual number ofattendance, likely due to the shift back to exclusively

attendees has risen by around 50,000, reflecting not

in-person formats, the AI Index reports an increase

just a growing interest in AI research but also thein conference attendance from 2022 to 2023.12

emergence of new AI conferences.

Attendance at select AI conferences, 2010–23
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12 This data should be interpreted with caution given that many conferences in the last few years have had virtual or hybrid formats. Conference organizers report that measuring the exact
attendance numbers at virtual conferences is difficult, as virtual conferences allow for higher attendance of researchers from around the world. The conferences for which the AI Index tracked
data include NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, ICRA, AAAI, ICLR, IROS, IJCAI, AAMAS, FAccT, UAI, ICAPS, and KR.

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AI conferences, NeurIPS, ICML, ICCV, and AAAI

remains one of the most attended AI conferences,

experienced year-over-year increases in attendance.

attracting approximately 16,380 participants in 2023

However, in the past year, CVPR, ICRA, ICLR, and IROS

(Figure 1.4.2 and Figure 1.4.3). Among the major

observed slight declines in their attendance figures.

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GitHub is a web-based platform that enables individuals and teams to host, review, and collaborate on code
repositories. Widely used by software developers, GitHub facilitates code management, project collaboration,and open-source software support. This section draws on data from GitHub providing insights into broader trends in
open-source AI software development not reflected in academic publication data.

1.5 Open-Source AI Software
Projects

GitHub AI projects over time. Since 2011, the number

A GitHub project comprises a collection of files,

increase, growing from 845 in 2011 to approximately

including source code, documentation, configuration

1.8 million in 2023.13 Notably, there was a sharp 59.3%

files, and images, that together make up a softwarerise in the total number of GitHub AI projects in the

project. Figure 1.5.1 looks at the total number oflast year alone.

of AI-related GitHub projects has seen a consistent

Number of GitHub AI projects, 2011–23
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recently published research paper, a shift from the previously detailed methodology in an earlier paper. This edition of the AI Index is the first to adopt this updated approach. Moreover, theprevious edition of the AI Index utilized country-level mapping of GitHub AI projects conducted by the OECD, which depended on self-reported data—a method experiencing a decline incoverage over time. This year, the AI Index has adopted geographic mapping from GitHub, leveraging server-side data for broader coverage. Consequently, the data presented here may notalign perfectly with data in earlier versions of the report.

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Figure 1.5.2 reports GitHub AI projects by geographic

followed closely by the European Union and thearea since 2011. As of 2023, a significant share

United Kingdom at 17.9%. Notably, the proportion of AI

of GitHub AI projects were located in the Unitedprojects from developers located in the United States

States, accounting for 22.9% of contributions. India

on GitHub has been on a steady decline since 2016.

was the second-largest contributor with 19.0%,

GitHub AI projects (% of total) by geographic area, 2011–23
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AI projects (% of total)

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Stars
GitHub users can show their interest in a repository
by “starring” it, a feature similar to liking a post on

a platform that offers a variety of tools for computer
vision, such as object detection and feature extraction.

social media, which signifies support for an open-

The total number of stars for AI-related projects onsource project. Among the most starred repositories

GitHub saw a significant increase in the last year, moreare libraries such as TensorFlow, OpenCV, Keras, andthan tripling from 4.0 million in 2022 to 12.2 million in

PyTorch, which enjoy widespread popularity among

2023 (Figure 1.5.3). This sharp increase in GitHub stars,

software developers in the AI coding community. For

along with the previously reported rise in projects,

example, TensorFlow is a popular library for building

underscores the accelerating growth of open-sourceand deploying machine learning models. OpenCV is

AI software development.

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China, and India, saw a year-over-year increase inhighest number of GitHub stars, totaling 10.5 million

the total number of GitHub stars awarded to projects(Figure 1.5.4). All major geographic regions sampled,

located in their countries.

including the European Union and United Kingdom,

Number of GitHub stars by geographic area, 2011–23
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Overview		

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Editing		

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Chapter Highlights

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EditVal		100

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2.1 Overview of AI in 2023

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Timeline: Significant Model Releases

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AI Index Benchmarks

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2.2 Language

85

Understanding

86

HELM: Holistic Evaluation of
Language Models

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MMLU: Massive Multitask
Language Understanding

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Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
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HumanEval

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SWE-Bench95

2.4 Image Computer Vision andImage Generation

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General Reasoning

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MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline
Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
Benchmark for Expert AGI

112

GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof
Q&A Benchmark

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Highlighted Research: Comparing Humans,
GPT-4, and GPT-4V on Abstraction andReasoning Tasks
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GSM8K		

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MATH		

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PlanBench

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Visual Reasoning

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Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR)

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Moral Reasoning

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Closed vs. Open Model Performance

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2.12 Techniques for LLM Improvement

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Prompting		

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Highlighted Research:
Challenging the Notion of Emergent Behavior 141

Highlighted Research: UniAudio

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MusicGEN and MusicLM

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Graph of Thoughts Prompting

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General Agents

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Overview
The technical performance section of this year’s AI Index offers a comprehensive overview
of AI advancements in 2023. It starts with a high-level overview of AI technical performance,
tracing its broad evolution over time. The chapter then examines the current state of a wide
range of AI capabilities, including language processing, coding, computer vision (image andvideo analysis), reasoning, audio processing, autonomous agents, robotics, and reinforcement
learning. It also shines a spotlight on notable AI research breakthroughs from the past year,
exploring methods for improving LLMs through prompting, optimization, and fine-tuning, andwraps up with an exploration of AI systems’ environmental footprint.

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1. AI beats humans on some tasks, but not on all. AI has surpassed human performance on several
benchmarks, including some in image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding. Yet it trails behind on
more complex tasks like competition-level mathematics, visual commonsense reasoning and planning.

2. Here comes multimodal AI. Traditionally AI systems have been limited in scope, with language models
excelling in text comprehension but faltering in image processing, and vice versa. However, recent advancements have
led to the development of strong multimodal models, such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4. These models
demonstrate flexibility and are capable of handling images and text and, in some instances, can even process audio.

3. Harder benchmarks emerge. AI models have reached performance saturation on established benchmarks
such as ImageNet, SQuAD, and SuperGLUE, prompting researchers to develop more challenging ones. In 2023, several
challenging new benchmarks emerged, including SWE-bench for coding, HEIM for image generation, MMMU for general
reasoning, MoCa for moral reasoning, AgentBench for agent-based behavior, and HaluEval for hallucinations.

4. Better AI means better data which means … even better AI. New AI models such as SegmentAnything
and Skoltech are being used to generate specialized data for tasks like image segmentation and 3D reconstruction. Data isvital for AI technical improvements. The use of AI to create more data enhances current capabilities and paves the way for
future algorithmic improvements, especially on harder tasks.

5. Human evaluation is in. With generative models producing high-quality text, images, and more, benchmarking
has slowly started shifting toward incorporating human evaluations like the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard rather thancomputerized rankings like ImageNet or SQuAD. Public feeling about AI is becoming an increasingly importantconsideration in tracking AI progress.

6. Thanks to LLMs, robots have become more flexible. The fusion of language modeling with robotics has
given rise to more flexible robotic systems like PaLM-E and RT-2. Beyond their improved robotic capabilities, these models
can ask questions, which marks a significant step toward robots that can interact more effectively with the real world.

7. More technical research in agentic AI. Creating AI agents, systems capable of autonomous operationin specific environments, has long challenged computer scientists. However, emerging research suggests that theperformance of autonomous AI agents is improving. Current agents can now master complex games like Minecraft andeffectively tackle real-world tasks, such as online shopping and research assistance.

8. Closed LLMs significantly outperform open ones. On 10 select AI benchmarks, closed models
outperformed open ones, with a median performance advantage of 24.2%. Differences in the performance of closed andopen models carry important implications for AI policy debates.

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The technical performance chapter begins with a high-level overview of significant model releases in 2023 and reviews
the current state of AI technical performance.

2.1 Overview of AI in 2023
Timeline: Significant Model Releases
As chosen by the AI Index Steering Committee, here are some of the most notable model releases of 2023.

Date

Model

Type

Creator(s)SignificanceMar. 14, 2023

ClaudeLarge language
model

Anthropic

Claude is the firstpublicly released LLM
from Anthropic, one of
OpenAI’s main rivals.
Claude is designed to be
as helpful, honest, andharmless as possible.

Mar. 14, 2023

Mar. 23, 2023

GPT-4

StableDiffusion v2

Large language
model

Text-to-image
model

OpenAI

Stability AI

GPT-4, improving
over GPT-3, is among
the most powerfuland capable LLMs todate and surpasses
human performance on
numerous benchmarks.

Image

Figure 2.1.1
Source: Anthropic, 2023

Figure 2.1.2
Source: Medium, 2023

Stable Diffusion v2 is an
upgrade of Stability AI’s
existing text-to-image
model and produceshigher-resolution,
superior-quality images.

Figure 2.1.3
Source: Stability AI, 2023

Apr. 5, 2023

Segment
Anything

Image
segmentation

Meta

Segment Anything isan AI model capableof isolating objects inimages using zero-shot
generalization.
Figure 2.1.4
Source: Meta, 2023

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Date

Model

Type

Creator(s)SignificanceJul. 18, 2023

Llama 2Large language
model

Meta

Llama 2, an updated
version of Meta’s flagship
LLM, is open-source. Its
smaller variants (7B and
13B) deliver relatively
high performance for
their size.

Aug. 20, 2023

DALL-E 3

Image generation

OpenAI

Image

Figure 2.1.5
Source: Meta, 2023

DALL-E 3 is an improved
version of OpenAI’s
existing text-to-visionmodel DALL-E.
Figure 2.1.6
Source: OpenAI, 2023

Aug. 29, 2023

Sep. 27, 2023

Oct. 27, 2023

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Mistral 7B

Ernie 4.0

GPT-4 Turbo

Watermarking

Large language
model

Large language
model

Large language
model

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Mistral AI

Baidu

OpenAI

SynthID is a tool forwatermarking AIgenerated music andimages. Its watermarks
remain detectable evenafter image alterations.

Mistral 7B, launched
by French AI company
Mistral, is a compact 7
billion parameter modelthat surpasses Llama
2 13B in performance,
ranking it top in its classfor size.
Baidu, a multinational
Chinese technology
company, has launched
Ernie 4.0, which isamong the highestperforming Chinese
LLMs to date.
GPT-4 Turbo is an
upgraded large
language model
boasting a 128K context
window and reduced
pricing.

Figure 2.1.7
Source: DeepMind, 2023

Figure 2.1.8
Source: Mistral AI, 2023

Figure 2.1.9
Source: PR Newswire, 2023

Figure 2.1.10
Source: Tech.co, 2023

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Date

Model

Type

Creator(s)SignificanceNov. 6, 2023

Whisper v3

Speech-to-text

OpenAI

Whisper v3 is an opensource speech-to-text
model known for its
increased accuracy
and extended language
support.

Nov. 21, 2023

Nov. 22, 2023

Dec. 6, 2023

Claude 2.1

Inflection-2

Gemini

Large language
model

Large language
model

Large language

Anthropic

Inflection

Googlemodel

Dec. 21, 2023

Midjourneyv6

Text-to-image
model

Midjourney

Anthropic’s latest LLM,
Claude 2.1, features anindustry-leading 200K
context window, which
enhances its capacity
to process extensive
content such as lengthy
literary works.
Inflection-2 is thesecond LLM from the
new startup Inflection,founded by DeepMind’s
Mustafa Suleyman.
Inflection-2’s launch
underscores theintensifying competitionin the LLM arena.
Gemini emerges as aformidable competitor
to GPT-4, with one of its
variants, Gemini Ultra,
outshining GPT-4 on
numerous benchmarks.

Image

Figure 2.1.11
Source: AI Business, 2023

Figure 2.1.12
Source: Medium, 2023

Figure 2.1.13
Source: Inflection, 2023

Figure 2.1.14
Source: Medium, 2023

Midjourney’s latest
update enhances user
experience with moreintuitive prompts andsuperior image quality.

Figure 2.1.15
Source: Bootcamp, 2023

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State of AI Performance

Over the years, AI has surpassed human baselines ona handful of benchmarks, such as image classification

As of 2023, AI has achieved levels of performancein 2015, basic reading comprehension in 2017, visualthat surpass human capabilities across a range ofreasoning in 2020, and natural language inference intasks. Figure 2.1.16 illustrates the progress of AI

2021. As of 2023, there are still some task categories

systems relative to human baselines for nine AI
benchmarks corresponding to nine tasks (e.g., image
classification or basic-level reading comprehension).1
The AI Index team selected one benchmark towhere AI fails to exceed human ability. These tend
to be more complex cognitive tasks, such as visualcommonsense reasoning and advanced-level
mathematical problem-solving (competition-level

represent each task.

math problems).

Select AI Index technical performance benchmarks vs. human performance
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Medium-level reading comprehension (SQuAD 2.0)

Competition-level mathematics (MATH)

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2022

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Figure 2.1.162

1 An AI benchmark is a standardized test used to evaluate the performance and capabilities of AI systems on specific tasks. For example, ImageNet is a canonical AI benchmark that featuresa large collection of labeled images, and AI systems are tasked with classifying these images accurately. Tracking progress on benchmarks has been a standard way for the AI community tomonitor the advancement of AI systems.
2 In Figure 2.1.16, the values are scaled to establish a standard metric for comparing different benchmarks. The scaling function is calibrated such that the performance of the best model foreach year is measured as a percentage of the human baseline for a given task. A value of 105% indicates, for example, that a model performs 5% better than the human baseline.

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Due to saturation, several benchmarks featured

An emerging theme in AI technical performance,
as emphasized in last year’s report, is the observed
saturation on many benchmarks, such as ImageNet,
used to assess the proficiency of AI models.
Performance on these benchmarks has stagnatedin recent years, indicating either a plateau in AI

in the 2023 AI Index have been omitted from thisyear’s report. Figure 2.1.17 highlights a selection ofbenchmarks that were included in the 2023 edition
but not featured in this year’s report.4 It also shows
the improvement on these benchmarks since 2022.
“NA” indicates no improvement was noted.

capabilities or a shift among researchers toward more
complex research challenges.3

A selection of deprecated benchmarks from the 2023 AI Index report

Source: AI Index, 2024

BenchmarkTask category

Abductive Natural Language Inference (aNLI)

Natural language inferenceYear introduced
2019

Improvement from 2022
NA

arXiv

Text summarization

2003

NA

Cityscapes Challenge

Semantic segmentation

2016

0.23%

ImageNet

Image classi cation

2009

1.54%

Kinetics-400

Activity recognition

2017

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Kinetics-600

Activity recognition

2018

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Kinetics-700

Activity recognition

2019

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Kvasir-SEG

Medical image segmentation

2019

1.90%

MPII

Human pose estimation

2014

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PubMedText summarization

2008

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SST-5 Fine-Grained Classi cation

Sentiment analysis

2013

NA

STL-10

Image generation

2011

NA

SuperGLUE

English language understanding

2019

NA

Visual Question Answering Challenge (VQA)

Visual reasoning

2017

NA

VoxCeleb

Speech recognition

2017

NA

Figure 2.1.17

3 Benchmarks can also saturate or see limited improvement because the problem created is hard and the corresponding performance fails to improve. The issue of benchmark saturation
discussed in this section refers more to benchmarks where performance reaches a close-to-perfection level on which it is difficult to improve.
4 For brevity, Figure 2.1.17 highlights a selection of deprecated benchmarks. Additional benchmarks that were deprecated either because there was saturation, no new state-of-the-art score
was documented, or research focus shifted away from the benchmark include: Celeb-DF (deepfake detection), CIFAR-10 (image classification), NIST FRVT (facial recognition), and Procgen(reinforcement learning).

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Figure 2.1.18 illustrates the year-over-yearincreases relatively soon after they are introduced,

improvement, in percent, on a selection ofthen the improvement slows. In the last few years,

benchmarks featured in the 2023 AI Index report.

many of these benchmarks have shown little or no

Most benchmarks see significant performance

improvement.

Year-over-year improvement over time on select AI Index technical performance benchmarks

Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

25%

Year-over-year improvement (%)

20%

15%

10%

5%

4.47%, Kinetics-400
3.02%, COCO
1.84%, VQA
1.54%, ImageNet Top 1
0.23%, Cityscapes
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In response to benchmark saturation, AI researchers

including those for tasks in coding, advanced

are pivoting away from traditional benchmarks andreasoning, and agentic behavior—areas that were

testing AI on more difficult challenges. The 2024 AI

underrepresented in previous versions of the report

Index tracks progress on several new benchmarks(Figure 2.1.19).5

New benchmarks featured in the 2024 AI Index report
Source: AI Index, 2024

BenchmarkTask category

Year introduced

AgentBenchAgent-based behavior

2023

BigToM

Causal reasoning2023

Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

General language

2023

EditValImage editing

2023

GPQA

General reasoning

2023

GSM8K

Mathematical reasoning

2021

HEIM

Image generation

2023

HELM

General language

2021

HaluEval

Factuality

2023

HumanEval

Coding2021

MATH

Mathematical reasoning

2021

MLAgentBenchAgent-based behavior

2023

MMMU

General reasoning

2023

MoCa

Moral reasoning

2023

PlanBench

Planning

2023

SWE-bench

Coding2023

TruthfulQA

Factuality

2021

VisIT-Bench

Image instruction-following

2023
Figure 2.1.19

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A sample output from GPT-4
Source: AI Index, 2024

Natural language processing (NLP) enables
computers to understand, interpret,
generate, and transform text. Current stateof-the-art models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4
and Google’s Gemini, are able to generate
fluent and coherent prose and display highlevels of language understanding ability(Figure 2.2.1). Many of these models can also
now handle different input forms, such asimages and audio (Figure 2.2.2).

Figure 2.2.1

Gemini handling image and audio inputs
Source: Google, 2024

Figure 2.2.2

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Understanding

In 2022, Stanford researchers introduced HELM

English language understanding challenges AI systems

to evaluate LLMs across diverse scenarios,

to understand the English language in various ways
such as reading comprehension and logical reasoning.

HELM: Holistic Evaluation of Language Models
As illustrated above, in recent years LLMs havesurpassed human performance on traditional Englishlanguage benchmarks, such as SQuAD (question
answering) and SuperGLUE (language understanding).
This rapid advancement has led to the need for morecomprehensive benchmarks.

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companies like Anthropic, Google, Meta, and
OpenAI, and uses a “mean win rate” to track
average performance across all scenarios. As ofJanuary 2024, GPT-4 leads the aggregate HELM
leaderboard with a mean win rate of 0.96 (Figure
2.2.3); however, different models top different task

Task

Leading model

Score

GSM8K - EM

GPT-4 (0613)

0.93

LegalBench - EM

GPT-4 (0613)

0.71

MATH - Equivalent (CoT)GPT-4 Turbo (1106 preview)

0.86

MMLU - EM

GPT-4 (0613)

0.74

MedQA - EM

GPT-4 Turbo (1106 preview)

0.82

WMT 2014 - BLEU-4

Palmyra X V3 (72B)

0.26

Anthropic Claude 2.0

0.96

PaLM-2 (Bison)

0.81

GPT-4 (0613)

Anthropic Claude v1.3

PaLM-2 (Bison)

OpenbookQA - EM

Mixtral (8×7B 32K seqlen)

NaturalQuestions (open-book) - F1

Yi (34B)

0.00

PaLM-2 (Unicorn)

0.46

Palmyra X V2 (33B)

0.78

Llama 2 (70B)

Palmyra X V3 (72B)

Yi (34B)

NaturalQuestions (closed-book) F1

GPT-4 Turbo (1106 preview)

NarrativeQA - F1

0.20

GPT-4 (0613)

Mean win rate

0.80

HELM assesses models from several leading

Source: CRFM, 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

1.00 0.96
0.78

understanding, and mathematical reasoning.6

Leaders on individual HELM sub-benchmarks

Source: CRFM, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

0.82

including reading comprehension, language

categories (Figure 2.2.4).7

HELM: mean win rate
0.83

(Holistic Evaluation of Language Models), designed

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Figure 2.2.3

6 HELM evaluates 10 scenarios: (1) NarrativeQA (reading comprehension), (2) Natural Questions (closed-book) (closed-book short-answer question answering), (3) Natural Questions(open-book) (open-book short-answer question answering), (4) OpenBookQA (commonsense question answering), (5) MMLU (multisubject understanding), (6) GSM8K (grade schoolmath), (7) MATH (competition math), (8) LegalBench (legal reasoning), (9) MedQA (medical knowledge), and (10) WMT 2014 (machine translation).
7 There are several versions of HELM. This section reports the score on HELM Lite, Release v1.0.0 (2023-12-19), with the data having been collected in January 2024.

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MMLU: Massive Multitask Language
Understanding

In early 2023, GPT-4 posted a state-of-the-art score

The Massive Multitask Language Understanding

Figure 2.2.6 highlights the top model scores on the(MMLU) benchmark assesses model performance in

MMLU benchmark in different years. The scoreszero-shot or few-shot scenarios across 57 subjects,

reported are the averages across the test set. As of

including the humanities, STEM, and social sciences

January 2024, Gemini Ultra holds the top score of(Figure 2.2.5). MMLU has emerged as a premier

90.0%, marking a 14.8 percentage point improvement

benchmark for assessing LLM capabilities: Many state-since 2022 and a 57.6 percentage point increase sinceof-the-art models like GPT-4, Claude 2, and Gemini have

MMLU’s inception in 2019. Gemini Ultra’s score wasbeen evaluated against MMLU.

the first to surpass MMLU’s human baseline of 89.8%.

on MMLU, later surpassed by Google’s Gemini Ultra.

A sample question from MMLU
Source: Hendrycks et al., 2021

Figure 2.2.5

MMLU: average accuracy

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Generation

the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard is one of the

In generation tasks, AI models are tested on their ability

first comprehensive evaluations of public LLM

to produce fluent and practical language responses.

preference. The leaderboard allows users to query
two anonymous models and vote for the preferred

Chatbot Arena Leaderboard

generations (Figure 2.2.7). As of early 2024, theThe rise of capable LLMs has made it increasingly

platform has garnered over 200,000 votes, andimportant to understand which models areusers ranked OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo as the most

preferred by the general public. Launched in 2023,

preferred model (Figure 2.2.8).

A sample model response on the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
Source: Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, 2024

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Factuality and Truthfulness

Sample TruthfulQA questions
Source: Lin, Hilton, and Evans, 2022

Despite remarkable achievements, LLMs remain
susceptible to factual inaccuracies and content
hallucination—creating seemingly realistic, yet false,
information. The presence of real-world instanceswhere LLMs have produced hallucinations—incourt cases, for example—underscores the growing
necessity of closely monitoring trends in LLM
factuality.

TruthfulQA
Introduced at ACL 2022, TruthfulQA is a benchmark
designed to evaluate the truthfulness of LLMs ingenerating answers to questions. This benchmark
comprises approximately 800 questions across 38
categories, including health, politics, and finance.
Many questions are crafted to challenge commonly

Figure 2.2.9

held misconceptions, which typically lead humans toanswer incorrectly (Figure 2.2.9). Although one of theobservations of the paper is that larger models tend to
be less truthful, GPT-4 (RLHF) released in early 2024,
has achieved the highest performance thus far on the
TruthfulQA benchmark, with a score of 0.6 (Figure
2.2.10). This score is nearly three times higher than thatof a GPT-2-based model tested in 2021, indicating that
LLMs are becoming progressively better at providing
truthful answers.

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HaluEval
As previously mentioned, LLMs are prone to

A generated hallucinated QA example and ahuman-labeled ChatGPT response for a user query
Source: Li et al., 2023

hallucinations, a concerning trait given theirwidespread deployment in critical fields such as law
and medicine. While existing research has aimed tounderstand the causes of hallucinations, less effort has
been directed toward assessing the frequency of LLM
hallucinations and identifying specific content areas
where they are especially vulnerable.
HaluEval, introduced in 2023, is a new benchmark
designed to assess hallucinations in LLMs. It includes
over 35,000 samples, both hallucinated and normal,
for analysis and evaluation by LLMs (Figure 2.2.11).
The research indicates that ChatGPT fabricatesunverifiable information in approximately 19.5%
of its responses, with these fabrications spanninga variety of topics such as language, climate, andtechnology. Furthermore, the study examines how
well current LLMs can detect hallucinations. Figure
2.2.12 illustrates the performance of leading LLMs
in identifying hallucinations across various tasks,

Figure 2.2.11

including question answering, knowledge-groundeddialogue, and text summarization. The findings revealthat many LLMs struggle with these tasks, highlightingthat hallucination is a significant ongoing issue.

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HaluEval hallucination classi cation accuracy
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Models

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Coding involves the generation of instructions that computers can follow to perform tasks. Recently, LLMs havebecome proficient coders, serving as valuable assistants to computer scientists. There is also increasing evidence thatmany coders find AI coding assistants highly useful.

2.3 Coding
Generationin 2022 (Figure 2.3.2). Since 2021, performance on

On many coding tasks, AI models are challenged

HumanEval has increased 64.1 percentage points.

to generate usable code or to solve computerscience problems.
Sample HumanEval problem

HumanEval

Source: Chen et al., 2023

HumanEval, a benchmark for evaluating AI systems’
coding ability, was introduced by OpenAI researchers
in 2021. It consists of 164 challenging handwritten
programming problems (Figure 2.3.1). A GPT-4
model variant (AgentCoder) currently leads in
HumanEval performance, scoring 96.3%, which is a
11.2 percentage point increase from the highest score
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SWE-bench
As AI systems’ coding capabilities improve, it has

multiple functions, interact with various execution

become increasingly important to benchmark

environments, and perform complex reasoning.

models on more challenging tasks. In October 2023,

Even state-of-the-art LLMs face significant

researchers introduced SWE-bench, a dataset

challenges with SWE-bench. Claude 2, thecomprising 2,294 software engineering problems

best-performing model, solved only 4.8% of thesourced from real GitHub issues and popular

dataset’s problems (Figure 2.3.4).8 In 2023, the top-

Python repositories (Figure 2.3.3). SWE-benchperforming model on SWE-bench surpassed thepresents a tougher test for AI coding proficiency,

best model from 2022 by 4.3 percentage points.

demanding that systems coordinate changes across

A sample model input from SWE-bench

SWE-bench: percent resolved

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8 According to the SWE-bench leaderboard, unassisted systems have no assistance in finding the relevant files in the repository. Assisted systems operate under the “oracle” retrieval setting,which means the systems are provided with the list of files that were modified in the pull request.

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Computer vision allows machines to understand images and videos and create realistic visuals from textual prompts
or other inputs. This technology is widely used in fields such as autonomous driving, medical imaging, and video
game development.

2.4 Image Computer Vision
and Image Generation
Generation

Which face is real?
Source: Which Face Is Real, 2023

Image generation is the task of generating
images that are indistinguishable from real ones.
Today’s image generators are so advanced thatmost people struggle to differentiate between
AI-generated images and actual images ofhuman faces (Figure 2.4.1). Figure 2.4.2 highlights
several generations from various Midjourneymodel variants from 2022 to 2024 for the
prompt “a hyper-realistic image of Harry Potter.”
The progression demonstrates the significant

Figure 2.4.1

improvement in Midjourney’s ability to generate
hyper-realistic images over a two-year period.
In 2022, the model produced cartoonish andinaccurate renderings of Harry Potter, but by 2024,
it could create startlingly realistic depictions.

Midjourney generations over time:“a hyper-realistic image of Harry Potter”
Source: Midjourney, 2023

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HEIM’s findings indicate that no single model

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ranks highest (Figure 2.4.4).

9 The 12 evaluation aspects of HEIM are: (1) Alignment: How closely does the image align with the given text? (2) Quality: What is the quality of the produced image? (3) Aesthetic:
How aesthetically pleasing is the generated image? (4) Originality: How original is the image? (5) Reasoning: Does the model understand objects, counts, and spatial relations? (6)Knowledge: Does the model have knowledge about the world? (7) Bias: Are the generated images biased? (8) Toxicity: Are the generated images toxic or inappropriate? (9) Fairness:
Do the generated images exhibit performance disparities? (10) Robust: Is the model robust to input perturbations? (11) Multilinguality: Does the model support non-English languages?
(12) Efficiency: How fast is model inference?

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MVDreamCreating 3D geometries or models from

Sample generations from MVDreamtext prompts has been a significant

Source: Shi et al., 2023

challenge for AI researchers, with existingmodels struggling with problems suchas multiface Janus issue (inaccurately
regenerating context described by text
prompts) and content drift (inconsistency
across different 3D views). MVDream is a
new 3D generation system developed by
ByteDance and University of California, San
Diego researchers that overcomes some ofthese hurdles (Figure 2.4.5). In quantitativeevaluations, MVDream’s generated models
achieve Inception Score (IS) and CLIP

Figure 2.4.5scores comparable to those in the training
set, indicating the high quality of thegenerated images (Figure 2.4.6). MVDream
has major implications, especially forcreative industries where 3D content
creation is traditionally time-consuming
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Quantitative evaluation on image synthesis quality
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Instruction-Following

VisIT-Bench

In computer vision, instruction-following is the

In 2023, a team of industry and academic

capacity of vision-language models to interpret

researchers introduced VisIT-Bench, a benchmark

text-based directives related to images. For instance,

consisting of 592 challenging vision-language

an AI system could be given an image of various

instructions across about 70 instruction categories,

ingredients and tasked with suggesting how to use

such as plot analysis, art knowledge, and location

them to prepare a healthy meal. Capable instruction-

understanding (Figure 2.4.8). As of January 2024, thefollowing vision-language models are necessary forleading model on VisIT-Bench is GPT-4V, the vision-developing advanced AI assistants.

enabled variant of GPT-4 Turbo, with an Elo scoreof 1,349, marginally surpassing the human reference
score for VisIT-Bench (Figure 2.4.9).

A sample VisIT-Bench instruction set
Source: Bitton et al., 2023

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A sample VisIT-Bench instruction set
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Image editing involves using AI to modify
images based on text prompts. This AIassisted approach has broad real-world
applications in fields such as engineering,industrial design, and filmmaking.

EditValDespite the promise of text-guided image
editing, few robust methods can evaluate
how accurately AI image editors adhere to
editing prompts. EditVal, a new benchmark
for assessing text-guided image editing,includes over 13 edit types, such as adding
objects or changing their positions,
across 19 object classes (Figure 2.4.10).
The benchmark was applied to evaluate
eight leading text-guided image editing
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Performance improvements since 2021 on
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EditVal automatic evaluation: editing accuracy
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ControlNet
Conditioning inputs or performing conditional

In 2023, researchers from Stanford introduced

control refers to the process of guiding the output

a new model, ControlNet, that improves

created by an image generator by specifying

conditional control editing for large text-

certain conditions that a generated image must

to-image diffusion models (Figure 2.4.12).

meet. Existing text-to-image models often lackControlNet stands out for its ability to handle

precise control over the spatial composition

various conditioning inputs. Compared toof an image, making it difficult to use prompts

other previously released models in 2022,

alone to generate images with complex layouts,

human raters prefer ControlNet both in terms

diverse shapes, and specific poses. Fine-tuningof superior quality and better condition fidelity

these models for greater compositional control by(Figure 2.4.13). The introduction of ControlNet istraining them on additional images is theoreticallya significant step toward creating advanced text-

feasible, but many specialized datasets, such as

to-image generators capable of editing images

those for human poses, are not large enough toto more accurately replicate the complex images

support successful training.

frequently encountered in the real world.

Sample edits using ControlNet
Source: Zhang et al., 2023

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Instruct-NeRF2NeRF
New models can edit 3D geometries using(Figure 2.4.14). This method efficiently generates

only text instructions. Instruct-NeRF2NeRF is anew, edited images that adhere to textual

model developed by Berkeley researchers that

instructions, achieving greater consistency thanemploys an image-conditioned diffusion model

current leading methods (Figure 2.4.15).

for iterative text-based editing of 3D geometries
A demonstration of Instruct-NeRF2NeRF in action
Source: Haque et al., 2023

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Segmentation
Segmentation involves assigning individual image pixels to specific categories (for example: human, bicycle, or street).

Highlighted Research:

Segment Anything

Various segmentation masks createdby Segment Anything
Source: Kirillov et al., 2023

In 2023, Meta researchers launched Segment
Anything, a project that featured the Segment
Anything Model (SAM) and an extensive SA1B dataset for image segmentation. SAM isremarkable for being one of the first broadly
generalizable segmentation models that
performs well zero-shot on new tasks anddistributions. Segment Anything outperforms
leading segmentation methods like RITM on
16 out of 23 segmentation datasets (Figure
2.4.17). The metric on which Segment Anythingis evaluated is the mean Intersection overUnion (IoU).
Meta’s Segment Anything model was thenused, alongside human annotators, to create
the SA-1B dataset, which included over 1 billion
segmentation masks across 11 million images(Figure 2.4.16). A new segmentation dataset

Figure 2.4.16of this size will accelerate the training of
future image segmentors. Segment Anything
demonstrates how AI models can be usedalongside humans to more efficiently create
large datasets, which in turn can be used totrain even better AI systems.

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Segment Anything (cont’d)
SAM vs. RITM: mean IoU

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3D Reconstruction From Images
3D image reconstruction is the process of creating three-dimensional digital geometries from two-dimensional
images. This type of reconstruction can be used in medical imaging, robotics, and virtual reality.

Highlighted Research:

Objects from the 3D reconstruction dataset

Skoltech3D

Source: Voynov et al., 2023

Data scarcity often hinders the developmentof AI systems for specific tasks. In 2023, ateam of international researchers introduced
an extensive new dataset, Skoltech3D, formultiview 3D surface reconstruction (Figure
2.4.18). Encompassing 1.4 million images of 107
scenes captured from 100 different viewpoints
under 14 distinct lighting conditions, this dataset
represents a major improvement over existing 3D
reconstruction datasets (Figure 2.4.19).

Figure 2.4.18

Skoltech3D vs. the most widely used multisensor datasets
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DatasetSensor types

RGB
resolution(MPix)

Depth
resolution(MPix)

High
resolution
geometryDTU

RGB (2)

2

✓

49/64

8

80

ETH3D

RGB

24

✓

10–70

U

24

11K

TnT

RGB

8

✓

150–300

U

21

148K

BlendedMVG

unknown

3/0.4

20–1000

U

502

110K

BigBIRDRGB (5)

12

600

1

120

144K

BigBIRD

RGB-D (5)

1.2

0.3

ScanNet

RGB-D

1,3

0,3

N/A

U

1513

2.5M

Skoltech3D

RGB (2)

5

100

14

107

877K

Skoltech3D

RGB-D 1 (2)40

Skoltech3D

RGB-D 22

0.2

Skoltech3D

RGB-D 32

0.9✓

Poses/scene

Lighting# Scenes# Frames

27K

0.04

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Highlighted Research:

Sample generations from RealFusion

RealFusion

Source: Melas-Kyriazi et al, 2023

RealFusion, developed by Oxford researchers,
is a new method for generating complete
3D models of objects from single images,
overcoming the challenge of often having
insufficient information from single images
for full 360 degree reconstruction. RealFusion
utilizes existing 2D image generators to produce
multiple views of an object, and then assembles
these views into a comprehensive 360 degreemodel (Figure 2.4.20). This technique yields moreaccurate 3D reconstructions compared to stateof-the-art methods from 2021 (Shelf-Supervised),across a wide range of objects (Figure 2.4.21).
Figure 2.4.20

Object reconstruction: RealFusion vs. Shelf-Supervised
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RealFusion (2023)

Shelf-Supervised (2021)
1.00

12.89
12.22

12

0.82
10.23

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10

10.08

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5.89

CLIP-similarity ↑F-score ↑

8.26

0.80

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4
0.20

Vase

Teddy bear

Skateboard

OrangeMotorcycle

Chair

0.00

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Vase

Teddy bear

Skateboard

OrangeMotorcycle

Chair

0

Backpack

2

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Video analysis concerns performing tasks across videos rather than single images.

2.5 Video Computer Vision
and Video Generation
Sample frames from UCF101

Generation

Source: Soomro et al., 2021

Video generation involves the use of AI to generate
videos from text or images.

UCF101
UCF101 is an action recognition dataset of realistic
action videos that contain 101 action categories(Figure 2.5.1). More recently, UCF101 has been used
to benchmark video generators. This year’s top
model, W.A.L.T-XL, posted an FVD16 score of 36,
more than halving the state-of-the-art score posted
the previous year (Figure 2.5.2).

UCF101: FVD16

Figure 2.5.1

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700

600

FVD16 ↓

500

400

300

200

100
36
0
2021

2022

2023
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Align Your Latents
Most existing methods can only create short, low-

GAN (LVG) in resolution quality (Figure 2.5.4).

resolution videos. To address this limitation, an

The adaptation of a text-to-image architecture tointernational team of researchers has applied latentcreate LDM, a highly effective text-to-video model,

diffusion models, traditionally used for generating

exemplifies how advanced AI techniques can behigh-quality images, to produce high-resolution

repurposed across different domains of computer

videos (Figure 2.5.3). Their Latent Diffusion Modelvision. The LDM’s strong video generation(LDM) notably outperforms previous state-of-capabilities have many real-world applications,

the-art methods released in 2022 like Long Videosuch as creating realistic driving simulations.

High-quality generation of milk dripping into a cup of coffee
Source: Blattmann et al., 2023

Figure 2.5.3

Video LDM vs. LVG: FVD and FID

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FVD ↓
500

478

389

400
Performance

FID ↓

356

300

200

100
53.50
0

LVG
2022

31.60
Video LDM

51.90

Video LDM (cond.)
2023

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Highlighted Research:

Sample Emu Video generations

Emu Video

Source: Girdhar et al., 2023

Traditionally, progress in video generation has
trailed that in image generation due to its higher
complexity and the smaller datasets available
for training. Emu Video, a new transformerbased video generation model created by Meta
researchers, represents a significant step forward(Figure 2.5.5). Emu Video generates an image fromtext and then creates a video based on both thetext and image. Figure 2.5.6 illustrates the degree
to which the Emu Video model outperforms
Figure 2.5.5

previously released state-of-the-art video
generation methods. The metric is the proportion

instructions over the compared method. Emuof cases when human evaluators preferred Emu

Video simplifies the video generation process andVideo’s image quality or faithfulness to text

signals a new era of high-quality video generation.

Emu Video vs. prior works: human-evaluated video quality and text faithfulness win rate

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Quality

100% 100%

97%

100%

88%

85%

82%
Emu Video win rate

Text Faithfulness

60%

97%

81%

79%

80%

92%

91%

99%

96%

97%

87%

56%

40%

2022

Pika Labs

Reuse and Di use

Align Your Latents

PYOCO

Gen-2

CogVideo

Make-A-Video

0%

Imagen Video

20%

2023

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Reasoning in AI involves the ability of AI systems to draw logically valid conclusions from different forms of information.
AI systems are increasingly being tested in diverse reasoning contexts, including visual (reasoning about images), moral(understanding moral dilemmas), and social reasoning (navigating social situations).10

2.6 Reasoning
General Reasoning

Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding

General reasoning pertains to AI systems being

and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI. MMMU

able to reason across broad, rather than specific,

comprises about 11,500 college-level questions

domains. As part of a general reasoning challenge,

from six core disciplines: art and design, business,for example, an AI system might be asked to reason

science, health and medicine, humanities and social

across multiple subjects rather than perform one

science, and technology and engineering (Figure

narrow task (e.g., playing chess).

2.6.1). The question formats include charts, maps,

MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline
Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning
Benchmark for Expert AGI

tables, chemical structures, and more. MMMU is
one of the most demanding tests of perception,knowledge, and reasoning in AI to date. As of

In recent years, the reasoning abilities of AI systems

January 2024, the highest performing model ishave advanced so much that traditional benchmarks

Gemini Ultra, which leads in all subject categories

like SQuAD (for textual reasoning) and VQA (forwith an overall score of 59.4% (Figure 2.6.2).11 On

visual reasoning) have become saturated, indicating

most individual task categories, top models are stilla need for more challenging reasoning tests.

well beyond medium-level human experts (Figure
2.6.3). This relatively low score is evidence ofResponding to this, researchers from the United

MMMU’s effectiveness as a benchmark for assessing

States and Canada recently developed MMMU, theAI reasoning capabilities.

10 Some abilities highlighted in the previous sections implicitly involve some form of reasoning. This section highlights tasks that have a more specific reasoning focus.
11 The AI Index reports results from the MMMU validation set, as recommended by the paper authors for the most comprehensive coverage. According to the authors, the test set, with its
unreleased labels and larger size, presents a more challenging yet unbiased benchmark for model performance, ensuring a more robust evaluation. The test set results are available on the
MMMU page.

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Sample MMMU questions
Source: Yue et al., 2023

Figure 2.6.1

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100%
82.60%, Human expert (medium)51.60%

51.40%

51.10%
45.20%

43.00%

41.20%

41.10%

OmniLMM-12B*

56.80%

Marco-VL*

59.40%

InternLM-XComposer2-VL*

60%

Qwen-VL-PLUS*

Overall accuracy (%)

80%

40%

39.40%In MM-Zephyr-7B*

LLaVA-1.6-34B*

Qwen-VL-MAX*InternVL-Chat-V1.2*

GPT-4V(ision) (Playground)0%

Gemini Ultra*

20%

Figure 2.6.212

Model

MMMU: subject-speci c accuracy
Source: MMMU, 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

MMMU task
category

Leading model

Art and Design

Score

Human expert(medium)

Qwen-VL-MAX*

51.4

84.2

Business

GPT-4V(ision)(Playground)

59.3

86

Science

GPT-4V(ision)(Playground)

54.7

84.7

Health andMedicine

Gemini Ultra*

67.3

78.8

Humanities andSocial Sciences

Gemini Ultra*

78.3

85

Technology andEngineering

Gemini Ultra*

47.1

79.1

Figure 2.6.3

12 An asterisk (*) next to the model names indicates that the results were provided by the authors.

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GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A
Benchmarkwere crafted by subject-matter experts in various

In the last year, researchers from NYU, Anthropic, and2.6.4). PhD-level experts achieved a 65% accuracy rate

Meta introduced the GPQA benchmark to test generalin their respective domains on GPQA, while nonexpert

multisubject AI reasoning. This dataset consists ofhumans scored around 34%. The best-performing AI

448 difficult multiple-choice questions that cannot bemodel, GPT-4, only reached a score of 41.0% on theeasily answered by Google searching. The questions

main test set (Figure 2.6.5).

fields like biology, physics, and chemistry (Figure

A sample chemistry question from GPQA
Source: Rein et al., 2023

Figure 2.6.4

GPQA: accuracy on the main set
Source: Rein et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

100%

80%
Accuracy (%) on the main set

72.50%, Expert human validators

60%

40%

39.70%

41.00%

Few-Shot CoT
GPT-4

GPT-4 with search(backo to CoT on abstention)

30.50%, Nonexpert human validators
29.10%

28.00%

Few-Shot CoT
Llama-2-70B-chatFew-Shot CoT
GPT-3.5-turbo-16k

20%

0%

Evaluation method and model

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Highlighted Research:

Comparing Humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V
on Abstraction and Reasoning Tasks

A sample ARC reasoning task
Source: Mitchell et al., 2023

Abstract reasoning involves using known information to solve
unfamiliar and novel problems and is a key aspect of human cognition
that is evident even in toddlers. While recent LLMs like GPT-4 haveshown impressive performance, their capability for true abstract
reasoning remains a hotly debated subject.13 To further explore this
topic, researchers from the Santa Fe Institute tested GPT-4 on theConceptARC benchmark, a collection of analogy puzzles designed
to assess general abstract reasoning skills (Figure 2.6.6). The study
revealed that GPT-4 significantly trails behind humans in abstract
reasoning abilities: While humans score 95% on the benchmark, thebest GPT-4 system only scores 69% (Figure 2.6.7). The developmentof truly general AI requires abstract reasoning capabilities. Therefore,
it will be important to continue tracking progress in this area.

Figure 2.6.6

ConceptARC: accuracy on minimal tasks over all concepts
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100%95%, Human performance

80%
69%

Accuracy (%)

65%
60%

40%

25%

23%

20%

0%

GPT-4 Temp = 0

GPT-4 Temp = 0.5

GPT-4V Zero-ShotModel

13 Some claim these models exhibit such reasoning capabilities, while others claim they do not.

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Mathematical Reasoning
Mathematical problem-solving benchmarks evaluate
AI systems’ ability to reason mathematically. AI
models can be tested with a range of math problems,from grade-school level to competition-standard

Chapter 2: Technical Performance
2.6 Reasoningthat AI models develop multistep solutions utilizing
arithmetic operations (Figure 2.6.8). GSM8K has
quickly become a favored benchmark for evaluating
advanced LLMs. The top-performing model on GSM8K

mathematics.

is a GPT-4 variant (GPT-4 Code Interpreter), which

GSM8K

the state-of-the-art score in the previous year and a

GSM8K, a dataset comprising approximately 8,000

30.4% improvement from 2022 when the benchmark

varied grade school math word problems, requires

was first introduced (Figure 2.6.9).

scores an accuracy of 97%, a 4.4% improvement from

Sample problems from GSM8K
Source: Cobbe et al., 2023

Figure 2.6.8

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GSM8K: accuracy

Source: Papers With Code, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report97%

Accuracy (%)

96%

93%

2022

2023
Figure 2.6.9

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MATH

A sample problem from the MATH dataset

MATH is a dataset of 12,500 challenging

Source: Hendrycks et al., 2023

competition-level mathematics problems
introduced by UC Berkeley researchers in 2021
(Figure 2.6.10). AI systems struggled on MATH
when it was first released, managing to solve only
6.9% of the problems. Performance has significantly
improved. In 2023, a GPT-4-based model posted
the top result, successfully solving 84.3% of thedataset’s problems (Figure 2.6.11).

MATH word problem-solving: accuracy

Figure 2.6.10

Source: Papers With Code, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

90%, Human baseline
84.30%

Accuracy (%)

80%

60%

40%

20%

0%

2021

2022

2023
Figure 2.6.11

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PlanBenchtested I-GPT-3 and GPT-4 on 600 problems in the

A planning system receives a specified goal, an

Blocksworld domain (where a hand tries to constructinitial state, and a collection of actions. Each action

stacks of blocks when it is only allowed to move one

is defined by preconditions, which must be met for

block at a time to the table or to the top of a clear

the action to be executed, and the effects that result

block) using one-shot learning and showed that GPT-4

from the action’s execution. The system constructs

could generate correct plans and cost-optimal plansa plan, comprising a series of actions, to achieve theabout 34% of the time, and I-GPT-3 about 6% (Figure

goal from the initial state.

2.6.12). Verifying the correctness of a plan is easier.

Claims have been made that LLMs can solve
planning problems. A group from Arizona State
University has proposed PlanBench, a benchmark
suite containing problems used in the automatedplanning community, especially those used in
the International Planning Competition. They

GPT-4 vs. I-GPT-3 on PlanBench
Source: Valmeekam, 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

Task
Plan generation
Cost-optimal planning
Plan veri cation

GPT-4(instances correct)

I-GPT-3(instances correct)

34.30%

6.80%

33%

5.80%

58.60%

12%

Figure 2.6.12

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Visual Reasoning

behind their answers (Figure 2.6.13). Performance

Visual reasoning tests how well AI systems canreason across both visual and textual data.

in VCR is measured using the Q->AR score, which

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR)

correct answer to a question (Q->A) and choose theIntroduced in 2019, the Visual Commonsense

appropriate rationale behind that answer (Q->R). While

Reasoning (VCR) challenge tests the commonsenseAI systems have yet to outperform humans on thisvisual reasoning abilities of AI systems. In thistask, their capabilities are steadily improving. Between

challenge, AI systems not only answer questions

2022 and 2023, there was a 7.93% increase in AI

based on images but also reason about the logic

performance on the VCR challenge (Figure 2.6.14).

evaluates the machine’s ability to both select the

A sample question from the Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) challenge
Source: Zellers et al., 2018

Figure 2.6.13

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) task: Q->AR score
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85, Human baseline
81.60

80

Q->AR score

70

60

50

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Figure 2.6.14

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Moral Reasoning
In the future, AI will be increasingly applied to

A moral story from MoCa
Source: Nie et al., 2023

domains where ethical considerations are crucial,
such as in healthcare and judicial systems. Therefore,
it is essential for AI systems to possess robust moral
reasoning capabilities, enabling them to effectively
navigate and reason about ethical principles andmoral considerations.

MoCa
The ability of AI models to reason in linguistic andvisual domains is well established, yet their capacity
for moral reasoning, especially moral reasoningthat aligns with human moral judgments, is lessunderstood.14 To further explore this topic, a team of
Stanford researchers created a new dataset (MoCa)of human stories with moral elements (Figure 2.6.15).
The researchers then presented these models withstories of human actions and prompted the models
to respond, measuring moral agreement with the

Figure 2.6.15

discrete agreement metric: A higher score indicatescloser alignment with human moral judgment. The
study yielded intriguing results. No model perfectly
matches human moral systems, but newer, larger
models like GPT-4 and Claude show greateralignment with human moral sentiments than smaller
models like GPT-3, suggesting that as AI models
scale, they are gradually becoming more morallyaligned with humans. Of all models surveyed, GPT-4
showed the greatest agreement with human moral
sentiments (Figure 2.6.16).

14 The topic of AI and moral alignment is contentious, as there are no universally agreed-upon moral principles. What constitutes moral alignment for one party may significantly
differ for another.

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Zero-shot alignment with human judgments on the moral permissibility task: discrete agreement
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40.30

41.90

26.60

26.60

26.60

32.30

32.30

Alpaca-7B

30

GPT-3.5-davinci-v2

37.10

26.60

23.40
20

20.20

18.50

2019

2020

2022

GPT-4

GPT-3.5-turbo

Anthropic-claude-v1

GPT-3.5-davinci-v3

GPT-3-curie-v1

Electra-gen-large

GPT-3-babbage-v1

GPT-2-XL

0

RoBERTa-large

10

ALBERT-xxlarge

Discrete agreement (agg.)

40

2023

Figure 2.6.16

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Causal Reasoning

human evaluators as superior to existing ToM

Causal reasoning assesses an AI system’s ability tobenchmarks. BigToM tests LLMs on forward belief

understand cause-and-effect relationships. As AI(predicting future events), forward action (acting

becomes increasingly ubiquitous, it has become

based on future event predictions), and backward

important to evaluate whether AI models can notbelief (retroactively inferring causes of actions)only explain their outputs but also update their(Figure 2.6.17).

conclusions—key aspects of causal reasoning.

In tests of LLMs on the benchmark, GPT-4 was the

BigToM

top performer, with ToM capabilities nearing but not

Assessing whether LLMs have theory-of-mind (ToM)

surpassing human levels (Figure 2.6.18, Figure 2.6.19,

capabilities—understanding and attributing mental

and Figure 2.6.20). More specifically, as measured bystates such as beliefs, intentions, and emotions—has

accuracy in correctly inferring beliefs, GPT-4 closely

traditionally challenged AI researchers. Earlier methods

matched human performance in forward belief andto evaluate ToM in LLMs were inadequate and lacked

backward belief tasks and slightly surpassed humans

robustness. To tackle this problem, in 2023 researchers

in forward action tasks. Importantly, the study

developed a new benchmark called BigToM, designed

shows that LLM performance on ToM benchmarks

for evaluating the social and causal reasoning abilities

is trending upward, with newer models like GPT-of LLMs. BigToM, comprising 25 controls and 5,000

4 outperforming predecessors such as GPT-3.5

model-generated evaluations, has been rated by(released in 2022).

Sample BigToM scenario
Source: Gandhi et al., 2023

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100%

90%

2022

2023

10% 7%

12% 9%

2022

Figure 2.6.18

35%34%

40%

24%

15%

Human performance

0%

30%

29%

GPT-4-0314

ClaudeGPT-4-0314

Claude-2

Human performance

LLaMA-65

20%

GPT-3.5-turbo

text-davinci-003

40%

LLaMA-65

20%

60%

Claude-2

29%

20%
0%

42%

Claude

47%

73%
62%

text-davinci-003

60%
40%

81%

80%

73%

46%

TB∧FB

GPT-3.5-turbo

76%

99%

98%

96%

93%

80%
Accuracy (%)

TB

97%

100% 96%

Source: Gandhi et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

TB∧FB

Accuracy (%)

TB

Backward belief inference with initial belief: accuracy

2023

Figure 2.6.19

Forward belief inference with initial belief: accuracy
Source: Gandhi et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

TB

TB∧FB

100%

91% 90%99%98%

60%

55%52%

40%

35%
27% 25%62%59%

43% 41%31%

2022

Human performance

GPT-4-0314

ClaudeClaude-2

GPT-3.5-turbo

0%

LLaMA-65

20%

text-davinci-003

Accuracy (%)

80%

2023

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Tübingen Cause-Effect Pairs
Researchers from Microsoft

year’s best by 13 percentage points (Figure 2.6.22). Notably,

and the University of Chicago

GPT-4 outperformed prior covariance-based AI models, whichhave demonstrated that LLMs

were explicitly trained for causal reasoning tasks. Furthermore,are effective causal reasoners.

the researchers discovered that certain prompts, especially those

The team evaluated several

designed to encourage helpfulness, can significantly enhance an

recent LLMs, including GPT-

LLM’s causal reasoning capabilities.

4, using the Tübingen cause-

Sample cause-effect pairs from the Tübingen dataset

effect pairs dataset. This

Source: Kiciman et al., 2023

benchmark comprises over 100
cause-and-effect pairs across
37 subdisciplines, testing AI
systems’ ability to discern causal
relationships (Figure 2.6.21). GPT4’s performance, a 96% accuracy
score, surpassed the previous
Figure 2.6.21

Performance on the Tübingen cause-e ect pairs dataset: accuracy
Source: Kıcıman et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

100%

96%

75%

75%

79%

81%

GPT-3.5-turbo

83%
80%

text-davinci-002

GPT version
82%

86%

89%
83%

48%

49%

50%

50%

50%

50%

51%

51%

text-ada-001

adatext-babbage-001

text-curie-001

text-davinci-001

babbage

curie

60%

davinci

Accuracy (%)

68%

40%

2021

GPT-3.5-turbo(single prompt)

GPT-3.5-turbo(causal agent)

GPT-4(single prompt)

2020

LMPrior2019

text-davinci-003

2017

Mosaic

2012

bQCD

Slope

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2.7 Audio

AI systems are adept at processing human speech, with audio capabilities that include transcribing spoken words totext and recognizing individual speakers. More recently, AI has advanced in generating synthetic audio content.

2.7 Audio
Generation
2023 marked a significant year in the field of audio

This advancement was highlighted by the releasegeneration, which involves creating synthetic audioof several prominent audio generators, such as

content, ranging from human speech to music files.

UniAudio, MusicGen, and MusicLM.

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UniAudio
UniAudio is a high-level language modeling

UniAudio surpasses leading methods in tasks,

technique to create audio content. UniAudio

including text-to-speech, speech enhancement,

uniformly tokenizes all audio types and, like modern

and voice conversion (Figure 2.7.1). With 1 billion

LLMs, employs next-token prediction for high-parameters and trained on 165,000 hours of audio,

quality audio generation. UniAudio is capable of

UniAudio exemplifies the efficacy of big data andgenerating high-quality speech, sound, and music.

self-supervision for music generation.

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Highlighted Research:

MusicGEN and MusicLM
Meta’s MusicGen is a novel audio generation

Human evaluators also favor MusicGen for its

model that also leverages the transformer

overall quality (OVL).

architecture common in language models togenerate audio. MusicGen enables users tospecify text for a desired audio outcome andthen fine-tune it using specific melodies. In
comparative studies, MusicGen outshines otherpopular text-to-music models like Riffusion,Moûsai, and MusicLM across various generative
music metrics. It boasts a lower FAD score,
indicating more plausible music generation,a lower KL score for better alignment withreference music, and a higher CLAP score,reflecting greater adherence to textual
descriptions of reference music (Figure 2.7.2).

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MusicLM is worth highlighting because its release
was accompanied by the launch of MusicCaps, astate-of-the-art dataset of 5.5K music-text pairs.
MusicCaps was used by MusicGen researchers
to benchmark the performance of their familyof models. The emergence of new models like
MusicGen, and new music-to-text benchmarks like
MusicCaps, highlights the expansion of generative
AI beyond language and images into more diverse
skill modalities like audio generation.

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2.8 Agents

AI agents, autonomous or semiautonomous systems designed to operate within specific environments to accomplish
goals, represent an exciting frontier in AI research. These agents have a diverse range of potential applications, fromassisting in academic research and scheduling meetings to facilitating online shopping and vacation booking.

2.8 Agents
General Agentsassessed over 25 LLM-based agents, including thoseThis section highlights benchmarks and researchbuilt on OpenAI’s GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 2, andinto agents that can flexibly operate in general task

Meta’s Llama 2. GPT-4 emerged as the top performer,

environments.

achieving an overall score of 4.01, significantly
higher than Claude 2’s score of 2.49 (Figure 2.8.2).

AgentBenchAgentBench, a new benchmark designed forevaluating LLM-based agents, encompasses eight
distinct interactive settings, including web browsing,
online shopping, household management, puzzles,
and digital card games (Figure 2.8.1). The study

The research also suggests that LLMs released in
2023 outperform earlier versions in agentic settings.
Additionally, the AgentBench team speculated thatagents’ struggles on certain benchmark subsections
can be attributed to their limited abilities in long-term
reasoning, decision-making, and instruction-following.

Description of the AgentBench benchmark
Source: Liu et al., 2023

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Highlighted Research:

Voyageur
Recent research by Nvidia, Caltech, UT Austin,

playground for its players (Figure 2.8.3). Voyager

Stanford, and UW Madison demonstrates thatexcels in this environment, adeptly remembering

existing LLMs like GPT-4 can be used to develop

plans, adapting to new settings, and transferring

flexible agents capable of continuous learning.

knowledge. It significantly outperforms previous

The team created Voyager, a GPT-4-based agent

models, collecting 3.3 times more unique items,for Minecraft—a complex video game with notraveling 2.3 times further, and reaching key

set endpoint that is essentially a boundless virtual

milestones 15.3 times faster (Figure 2.8.4).

Voyager in action
Source: Wang et al., 2023

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Voyager’s performance improvements over priorstate of the art in Minecraft
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Voyager’s improvement factor

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researchers have long faced challenges increating agents that can explore, plan, and14

learn in open-ended worlds. While previous AI

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and shogi, they struggled in more dynamic

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Task-Specific Agentsacross 15 varied research tasks. Examples of the tasks
include improving a baseline model on the CIFAR-10This section highlights benchmarks and research

image dataset and training a language model on

into agents that are optimized to perform in specificover 10 million words in BabyLM. Various LLM-basedtask environments, such as mathematical problem-

agents, including GPT-4, Claude-1, AutoGPT, andsolving or academic research.

LangChain, were tested. The results demonstrate

MLAgentBenchthat although there is promise in AI research agents,

MLAgentBench, a new benchmark for evaluating

performance varies significantly across tasks. While

AI research agents’ performance, tests whether

some agents achieved over 80% on tasks like ogbn-

AI agents are capable of engaging in scientificarxiv (improving a baseline paper classification

experimentation. More specifically, MLAgentBenchmodel), all scored 0% on BabyLM (training a small

assesses AI systems’ potential as computer sciencelanguage model) (Figure 2.8.5). Among these, GPT-4

research assistants, evaluating their performance

consistently delivered the best results.

MLAgentBench evaluation: success rate of select models across tasks
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paper classification model from scratch), (4) house prices (train a regression model), (5) spaceship titanic (train a classifier model from scratch), (6) Parkinson’s-disease (train a time-series
regression model), (7) FathomNet (train an out-of-distribution image classification model), (8) feedback (train an out-of-distribution text regression model), (9) identify contrails (train an
out-of-distribution image segmentation model), (10) CLRS (model classic algorithms over graphs and lists), (11) BabyLM (train language model over 10M words), (12) llama-inference (improve
the runtime/autoregressive generation speed of Llama 7B, (13) vectorization (improve the inference speed of a model), (14) literature-review-tool (perform literature review), and (15) bibtexgeneration (generate BibTex from sketch).

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2.9 Robotics

Over time, AI has become increasingly integrated into robotics, enhancing robots’ capabilities to perform complex
tasks. Especially with the rise of foundation models, this integration allows robots to iteratively learn from theirsurroundings, adapt flexibly to new settings, and make autonomous decisions.

2.9 Robotics
Highlighted Research:

PaLM-E
PaLM-E is a new AI model from Google that

outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods likemerges robotics with language modeling to

SayCan and PaLI on both embodied visual question

address real-world tasks like robotic manipulation

answering and planning (Figure 2.9.2).16 On

and knowledge tasks like question answering androbotic manipulation tasks, PaLM-E outperforms

image captioning. Leveraging transformer-based

competing models (PaLI and CLIP-FT) in its ability

architectures, the largest PaLM-E model is scaled

to detect failures, which is a crucial step for robots

up to 562B parameters. The model is trained

to perform closed-loop planning (Figure 2.9.3).

on diverse visual language as well as robotics
data, which results in superior performance ona variety of robotic benchmarks. PaLM-E also
sets new standards in visual tasks like OK-VQA,
excels in other language tasks, and can engage inchain-of-thought, mathematical, and multi-image
reasoning, even without specific training in theseareas. Figure 2.9.1 illustrates some of the tasks that
the PaLM-E model can perform.
On Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) domains,

PaLM-E is significant in that it demonstrates that
language modeling techniques as well as text
data can enhance the performance of AI systems
in nonlanguage domains, like robotics. PaLM-E
also highlights how there are already linguistically
adept robots capable of real-world interaction andhigh-level reasoning. Developing these kinds ofmultifaceted robots is an essential step in creating
more general robotic assistants that can, forexample, assist in household work.

where robots have to manipulate objects, PaLM-E

16 Embodied Visual Question Answering (Embodied VQA) is a task where agents need to navigate through 3D environments and answer questions about the objects theyvisually perceive in the environment.

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Highlighted Research:

PaLM-E (cont’d)
PaLM-E in action
Source: Robotics at Google, 2023

Figure 2.9.1

Performance of select models on TAMP environment: success rate
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Highlighted Research:

RT-2
Real-world robots could benefit from certain

and adaptable approaches for conditioning robotic

capabilities possessed by LLMs, such as text andpolicy. It outshines state-of-the-art models likecode generation, as well as visual understanding.

Manipulation of Open-World Objects (MOO) across

RT-2, a new robot released from DeepMind,various benchmarks, particularly in tasks involving

represents an ambitious attempt to create a

unseen objects. On such tasks, an RT-2/PaLM-E

generalizable robotic model that has certain

variant achieves an 80% success rate, significantly

LLM capabilities. RT-2 uses a transformer-based

higher than MOO’s (53%) (Figure 2.9.4). In unseen

architecture and is trained on both robotic

object tasks, RT-2 surpasses the previous year’s

trajectory data that is tokenized into text andstate-of-the-art model, RT-1, by 43 percentage

extensive visual-language data.

points. This indicates an improvement in robotic
performance in novel environments over time.

RT-2 stands out as one of the most impressive

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In reinforcement learning, AI systems are trained to maximize performance on a given task by interactively learningfrom their prior actions. Systems are rewarded if they achieve a desired goal and punished if they fail.

2.10 Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learningfrom Human Feedback

seven models reported using RLHF, and in 2023, 16
models reported using RLHF. The rising popularity of
RLHF is also evidenced by the fact that many leading

Reinforcement learning has gained popularity

LLMs report improving their models with RLHF

in enhancing state-of-the-art language models(Figure 2.10.2).

like GPT-4 and Llama 2. Introduced in 2017,
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Number of foundation models using RLHF, 2021–23(RLHF) incorporates human feedback into thereward function, enabling models to be trained for

Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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characteristics like helpfulness and harmlessness.
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their training. More specifically, the Index teamlooked through the technical reports and otherdocumentation of all models included in CRFM’s
Ecosystem graph, one of the most comprehensive

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of foundation models using RLHF as part ofrepositories of the foundation model ecosystem.17

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Highlighted Research:

RLAIF

RLAIF and RLHF vs. SFT baseline: win rate
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100%
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RLHF is a powerful method for aligning AI
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Summarization

can serve as a reliable substitute. The
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which RLHF is preferred (Figure 2.10.3).
Notably, in harmless dialogue generation
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Highlighted Research:

Direct Preference Optimization
As illustrated above, RLHF is a useful method

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). DPO isfor aligning LLMs with human preferences.

simpler than RLHF but equally effective. The

However, RLHF requires substantial computational

researchers show that DPO is as effective as otherresources, involving the training of multiple

existing alignment methods, such as Proximal

language models and integrating LM policy

Policy Optimization (PPO) and Supervised Fine-

sampling within training loops. This complexity

Tuning (SFT), on tasks like summarization (Figure

can hinder its broader adoption.

2.10.5). The emergence of techniques like DPO
suggests that model alignment methods are

In response, researchers from Stanford and CZ

becoming more straightforward and accessible.

Biohub have developed a new reinforcement
learning algorithm for aligning models named

Comparison of di erent algorithms on TL;DR summarization task across di erent sampling temperatures

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This section focuses on research exploring critical properties of LLMs, such as their capacity for sudden behavioral
shifts and self-correction in reasoning. It is important to highlight these studies to develop an understanding of how
LLMs, which are increasingly representative of the frontier of AI research, operate and behave.

2.11 Properties of LLMs
Highlighted Research:

Challenging the Notion of Emergent Behavior
Many papers have argued that LLMs exhibit

multiple-choice grading are used to evaluate

emergent abilities, meaning they can unpredictably

models, emergent abilities seem more apparent.

and suddenly display new capabilities at larger

In contrast, when linear or continuous metrics

scales. This has raised concerns that even larger

are employed, these abilities largely vanish.

models could develop surprising, and perhaps

Analyzing a suite of benchmarks from BIG-

uncontrollable, new abilities.

bench, a comprehensive LLM evaluation tool,18

However, research from Stanford challenges thisnotion, arguing that the perceived emergence of newcapabilities is often a reflection of the benchmarks
used for evaluation rather than an inherent propertyof the models themselves. The researchers foundthat when nonlinear or discontinuous metrics likethe researchers noted emergent abilities on
only five of the 39 benchmarks (Figure 2.11.1).
These findings have important implications for AI
safety and alignment research as they challengea prevailing belief that AI models will inevitablylearn new, unpredictable behaviors as they scale.

18 Some of these papers include Brown et al., 2023, Ganguli et al., 2022, Srivastava et al., 2022, and Wei et al., 2022.

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Challenging the Notion of Emergent Behavior (cont’d)Emergence score over all Big-bench tasks
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Highlighted Research:

Changes in LLM Performance Over Time
Publicly usable closed-source LLMs, such as GPT-4,

that performance declined on several tasks. For

Claude 2, and Gemini, are often updated over time

instance, the June version of GPT-4, comparedby their developers in response to new data or user

to the March version, was 42 percentage points

feedback. However, there is little research on how

worse at generating code, 16 percentage points

the performance of such models changes, if at all, in

worse at answering sensitive questions, and 33

response to such updating.

percentage points worse on certain mathematical

A study conducted at Stanford and Berkeley
explores the performance of certain publicly usable
LLMs over time and highlights that, in fact, theirperformance can significantly vary. More specifically,
the study compared the March and June 2023
versions of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and demonstrated

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diminished over time, which potentially explains
the broader performance declines. This researchhighlights that LLM performance can evolve overtime and suggests that regular users should be
mindful of such changes.

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Changes in LLM Performance Over Time (cont’d)Performance of the March 2023 and June 2023 versions of GPT-4 on eight tasks
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LLMs Are Poor Self-Correctors
It is generally understood that LLMs like GPT-4

Researchers from DeepMind and the University

have reasoning limitations and can sometimesof Illinois at Urbana–Champaign tested GPT-4’s

produce hallucinations. One proposed solution

performance on three reasoning benchmarks:

to such issues is self-correction, whereby LLMs

GSM8K (grade-school math), CommonSenseQA

identify and correct their own reasoning flaws. As(common-sense reasoning), and HotpotQA

AI’s societal role grows, the concept of intrinsic(multidocument reasoning). They found that whenself-correction—allowing LLMs to autonomously

the model was left to decide on self-correction

correct their reasoning without external guidance—

without guidance, its performance declined acrossis especially appealing. However, it is currently not

all tested benchmarks (Figure 2.11.3).

well understood whether LLMs are in fact capableof this kind of self-correction.
GPT-4 on reasoning benchmarks with intrinsic self-correction
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Closed vs. Open Model Performance

innovation, and enhance transparency within the AI

As LLMs become increasingly ubiquitous, debate

ecosystem. Others contend that open-source models

intensifies over their varying degrees of accessibility.

present considerable security risks, such as facilitating

Some models such as Google’s Gemini remain closed,

the creation of disinformation or bioweapons, andaccessible solely to their developers. In contrast,

should therefore be approached with caution.

models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude
2 offer limited access, available publicly via an API.

In the context of this debate, it is important to

However, model weights are not fully released, which

acknowledge that current evidence indicates ameans the model cannot be independently modified

notable performance gap between open and closedby the public or further scrutinized. Conversely,models.19 Figures 2.11.4 and 2.11.5 juxtapose theMeta’s Llama 2 and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion

performances of the top closed versus open model

adopt an open approach, fully releasing their model

on a selection of benchmarks.20 On all selected

weights. Open-source models can be modified andbenchmarks, closed models outperform open ones.

freely used by anyone.

Specifically, on 10 selected benchmarks, closed
models achieved a median performance advantage ofViewpoints differ on the merits of closed versus open

24.2%, with differences ranging from as little as 4.0%

AI models. Some argue in favor of open models, citingon mathematical tasks like GSM8K to as much as

their ability to counteract market concentration, foster

317.7% on agentic tasks like AgentBench.

Score di erentials of top closed vs. open models on select benchmarks
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As LLMs use increases, techniques are being sought to enhance their performance and efficiency. This section examinessome of those advances.

2.12 Techniques for LLM Improvement
PromptingMastering the art of crafting effective prompts

Prompting, a vital aspect of the AI pipeline, entails

significantly enhances the performance of LLMs

supplying a model with natural language instructions

without requiring that models undergo underlyingthat describe tasks the model should execute.

improvements.

Highlighted Research:

Graph of Thoughts Prompting
Chain of thought (CoT) and Tree of Thoughts(ToT) are prompting methods that can improve

Graph of Thoughts (GoT) reasoning flow
Source: Besta et al., 2023

the performance of LLMs on reasoning tasks. In
2023, European researchers introduced anotherprompting method, Graph of Thoughts (GoT), thathas also shown promise (Figure 2.12.1). GoT enables
LLMs to model their thoughts in a more flexible,
graph-like structure which more closely mirrors
actual human reasoning. The researchers thendesigned a model architecture to implement GoT
and found that, compared to ToT, it increased thequality of outputs by 62% on a sorting task while
reducing cost by around 31% (Figure 2.12.2).

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Graph of Thoughts Prompting (cont’d)Number of errors in sorting tasks with ChatGPT-3.5
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Highlighted Research:

Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO)A paper from DeepMind has introduced

prompts aim to enhance the performance of AI

Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a method

systems on particular benchmarks. Compared tothat uses LLMs to iteratively generate prompts

other prompting approaches like “let’s think stepto improve algorithmic performance. OPRO usesby step” or an empty starting point, ORPO leads

natural language to guide LLMs in creating new

to significantly greater accuracy on virtually all 23

prompts based on problem descriptions andBIG-bench Hard tasks (Figure 2.12.4).

previous solutions (Figure 2.12.3). The generated
Sample OPRO
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Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning not only boosts overall model

Fine-tuning has grown increasingly popular as aperformance but also sharpens the model’s

method of enhancing LLMs and involves further

capabilities on specific tasks. It also allows for moretraining or adjusting models on smaller datasets.

precise control over the model’s behavior.

Highlighted Research:

QLoRA manages to increase efficiency with

QLoRA

techniques like a 4-bit NormalFloat (NF4), double
quantization, and page optimizers. QLoRA is

QLoRA, developed by researchers from theused to train a model named Guanaco, which

University of Washington in 2023, is a new method

matched or even surpassed models like ChatGPT

for more efficient model fine-tuning. It dramaticallyin performance on the Vicuna benchmark (areduces memory usage, enabling the fine-tuning

benchmark that ranks the outputs of LLMs) (Figureof a 65 billion parameter model on a single 48

2.12.5). Remarkably, the Guanaco models were

GB GPU while maintaining full 16-bit fine-tuning

created with just 24 hours of fine-tuning on a single

performance. To put this in perspective, fine-tuning

GPU. QLoRa highlights how methods for optimizing

a 65B Llama model, a leading open-source LLM,

and further improving models have become more

typically requires about 780 GB of GPU memory.

efficient, meaning fewer resources will be required

Therefore, QLoRA is nearly 16 times more efficient.

to make increasingly capable models.

Model competitions based on 10,000 simulations using GPT-4 and the Vicuna benchmark
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As previously noted, high training costs can hinder

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AI’s broader adoption. Optimization methods aim toenhance AI’s efficiency by, for example, improving
memory usage, thereby making LLMs moreaccessible and practical.

Highlighted Research:Flash-Decoding
Flash-Decoding, developed by Stanford

inference: For example, on a 256 batch size andresearchers, tackles inefficiency in traditional

256 sequence length, Flash-Decoding is 48 times

LLMs by speeding up the attention mechanism,

faster than PyTorch Eager and six times fasterparticularly in tasks requiring long sequences.

than FlashAttention-2 (Figure 2.12.7). Inference

It achieves this by parallelizing the loading ofon models like ChatGPT can cost $0.01 perkeys and values, then separately rescaling andresponse, which can become highly expensive

combining them to maintain right attention outputs

when deploying such models to millions of users.

(Figure 2.12.6). In various tests, Flash-Decoding

Innovations like Flash-Decoding are critical foroutperforms other leading methods like PyTorch

reducing inference costs in AI.

Eager and FlashAttention-2, showing much fasterFlash-Decoding
operation process
Source: Dao et al., 2023

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Source: Dao et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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This section examines trends in the environmental impact of AI systems, highlighting the evolving landscape of transparency andawareness. Historically, model developers seldom disclosed the carbon footprint of their AI systems, leaving researchers to maketheir best estimates. Recently, there has been a shift toward greater openness, particularly regarding the carbon costs of training AI
models. However, disclosure of the environmental costs associated with inference—a potentially more significant concern—remains
insufficient. This section presents data on carbon emissions as reported by developers in addition to featuring notable research
exploring the intersection of AI and environmental impact. With AI models growing in size and becoming more widely used, it has
never been more critical for the AI research community to diligently monitor and mitigate the environmental effects of AI systems.

2.13 Environmental Impact of AI Systems
General Environmental Impact

Emission data varies widely. For instance, Meta’s Llama
2 70B model released approximately 291.2 tonnes

Trainingof carbon, which is nearly 291 times more than the

Figure 2.13.1 presents the carbon released by (inemissions released by one traveler on a round-trip flighttonnes) of select LLMs during their training, comparedfrom New York to San Francisco, and roughly 16 times

with human reference points. Emissions data of

the amount of annual carbon emitted by an averagemodels marked with an asterisk were estimated byAmerican in one year.21 However, the emissions fromindependent researchers as they were not disclosed

Llama 2 are still less than the 502 tonnes reportedly

by their developers.

released during the training of OpenAI’s GPT-3.

CO2 equivalent emissions (tonnes) by select machine learning models and real-life examples, 2020–23
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The variance in emission estimates is due to factors

Super Cluster). However, smaller models can still havesuch as model size, data center energy efficiency, andhigh emissions if trained on energy grids powered by

the carbon intensity of energy grids. Figure 2.13.2 shows

less efficient energy sources. Some estimates suggest

the emissions of select models in relation to their size.

that model emissions have declined over time, which isGenerally, larger models emit more carbon, a trend

presumably tied to increasingly efficient mechanisms ofclearly seen in the Llama 2 model series, which were allmodel training. Figure 2.13.3 features the emissions of

trained on the same supercomputer (Meta’s Research

select models along with their power consumption.

CO2 equivalent emissions (tonnes) and number of parameters by select machine learning models
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Gopher (280B)

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A major challenge in evaluating the environmental

training AI models can be significant. While the per-impacts of AI models is a lack of transparency about

query emissions of inference may be relatively low,emissions. Consistent with findings from other studies,

the total impact can surpass that of training whenmost prominent model developers do not report carbon

models are queried thousands, if not millions, ofemissions, hampering efforts to conduct thorough andtimes daily. Research on the emissions from model

accurate evaluations of this metric. For example, many

inference is scant. A study by Luccioni et al., publishedprominent model developers such as OpenAI, Google,

in 2023, is among the first to comprehensively assess

Anthropic, and Mistral do not report emissions in

the emissions from model inference. Figure 2.13.4

training, although Meta does.

illustrates the emissions from 1,000 inferences across22

various model tasks, revealing that tasks like image

Inference

generation have a much higher carbon footprint thanAs highlighted earlier, the environmental impact oftext classification.

Carbon emissions by task during model inference
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Positive Use Cases
Despite the widely recognized environmental costs

efforts.23 These applications include enhancingof training AI systems, AI can contribute positively tothermal energy system management, improving pest

environmental sustainability. Figure 2.13.5 showcases acontrol strategies, and boosting urban air quality.

variety of recent cases where AI supports environmental

Positive AI environmental use cases

Source: Fang et al., 2024 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

Use case

AI contribution

ReferenceManagement of thermal energy storage systems

Anticipating thermal energy needs and managing thermal energy storage
systems.

Olabi et al., 2023

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Saving time and costs in waste-to-energy conversion, waste sorting, andwaste monitoring.

Fang et al., 2023

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Optimizing the energy usage associated with air-conditioning.

Luo et al., 2022

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Identifying and eliminating pests in commercial tomato harvests.

Rustia et al., 2022

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Forecasting and predicting air quality in urban cities.

Shams et al., 2021
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23 Several of the data points in Figure 2.13.5 were adopted from this literature review on the topic of AI and sustainability.

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Current Challenges

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AI Security and Safety in Numbers

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3.1 Assessing Responsible AI

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Academia

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Responsible AI Definitions

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Industry

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AI Incidents

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Examples164

Risk Perception

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Risk Mitigation

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Overall Trustworthiness

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Tracking Notable RAI Benchmarks

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Extracting Data From LLMs

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Do-Not-Answer: A New Open Dataset
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Social Bias in Image Generation Models

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Measuring Subjective Opinions in LLMs

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LLM Tokenization Introduces Unfairness

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Generation, Dissemination, andDetection of Disinformation

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Dissemination of Fake Content

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LLMs and Political Bias

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Overview
AI is increasingly woven into nearly every facet of our lives. This integration is occurring insectors such as education, finance, and healthcare, where critical decisions are often basedon algorithmic insights. This trend promises to bring many advantages; however, it also
introduces potential risks. Consequently, in the past year, there has been a significant focus
on the responsible development and deployment of AI systems. The AI community has also
become more concerned with assessing the impact of AI systems and mitigating risks for
those affected.
This chapter explores key trends in responsible AI by examining metrics, research, andbenchmarks in four key responsible AI areas: privacy and data governance, transparency
and explainability, security and safety, and fairness. Given that 4 billion people are expected
to vote globally in 2024, this chapter also features a special section on AI and elections andmore broadly explores the potential impact of AI on political processes.

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1. Robust and standardized evaluations for LLM responsibility are seriously lacking.
New research from the AI Index reveals a significant lack of standardization in responsible AI reporting.
Leading developers, including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, primarily test their models against different
responsible AI benchmarks. This practice complicates efforts to systematically compare the risks and limitationsof top AI models.

2. Political deepfakes are easy to generate and difficult to detect. Political deepfakes are alreadyaffecting elections across the world, with recent research suggesting that existing AI deepfake detection methods
perform with varying levels of accuracy. In addition, new projects like CounterCloud demonstrate how easily AI
can create and disseminate fake content.

3. Researchers discover more complex vulnerabilities in LLMs. Previously, most efforts to
red team AI models focused on testing adversarial prompts that intuitively made sense to humans. This year,
researchers found less obvious strategies to get LLMs to exhibit harmful behavior, like asking the models to
infinitely repeat random words.

4. Risks from AI are a concern for businesses across the globe. A global survey on responsible AI
highlights that companies’ top AI-related concerns include privacy, security, and reliability. The survey shows thatorganizations are beginning to take steps to mitigate these risks. However, globally, most companies have so far
only mitigated a portion of these risks.

5. LLMs can output copyrighted material. Multiple researchers have shown that the generative outputsof popular LLMs may contain copyrighted material, such as excerpts from The New York Times or scenes frommovies. Whether such output constitutes copyright violations is becoming a central legal question.

6. AI developers score low on transparency, with consequences for research. The newly
introduced Foundation Model Transparency Index shows that AI developers lack transparency, especiallyregarding the disclosure of training data and methodologies. This lack of openness hinders efforts to further
understand the robustness and safety of AI systems.

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7. Extreme AI risks are difficult to analyze. Over the past year, a substantial debate has emerged among
AI scholars and practitioners regarding the focus on immediate model risks, like algorithmic discrimination, versus
potential long-term existential threats. It has become challenging to distinguish which claims are scientificallyfounded and should inform policymaking. This difficulty is compounded by the tangible nature of already present
short-term risks in contrast with the theoretical nature of existential threats.

8. The number of AI incidents continues to rise. According to the AI Incident Database, which tracks
incidents related to the misuse of AI, 123 incidents were reported in 2023, a 32.3% increase from 2022. Since
2013, AI incidents have grown by over twentyfold. A notable example includes AI-generated, sexually explicit
deepfakes of Taylor Swift that were widely shared online.

9. ChatGPT is politically biased. Researchers find a significant bias in ChatGPT toward Democrats in the
United States and the Labour Party in the U.K. This finding raises concerns about the tool’s potential to influence
users’ political views, particularly in a year marked by major global elections.

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This chapter begins with an overview of key trends in responsible AI (RAI). In this section the AI Index defines key terms
in responsible AI: privacy, data governance, transparency, explainability, fairness, as well as security and safety. Next,
this section looks at AI-related incidents and explores how industry actors perceive AI risk and adopt AI risk mitigation
measures. Finally, the section profiles metrics pertaining to the overall trustworthiness of AI models and comments on
the lack of standardized responsible AI benchmark reporting.

3.1 Assessing Responsible AI
Responsible AI Definitions

offers definitions for the responsible AI dimensions

In this chapter, the AI Index explores four key

example of how these dimensions might bedimensions of responsible AI: privacy and datapractically relevant. The “Example” column examines

governance, transparency and explainability, security

a hypothetical platform that employs AI to analyze

and safety, and fairness. Other dimensions of

medical patient data for personalized treatment

responsible AI, such as sustainability and reliability,

recommendations, and demonstrates how issues likeare discussed elsewhere in the report. Figure 3.1.1

privacy, transparency, etc., could be relevant.1

addressed in this chapter, along with an illustrative

Responsible AI dimensions, de nitions, and examples
Source: AI Index, 2024

Responsible AI dimension

De nition

ExampleData governance

Establishment of policies, procedures, and standards toensure the quality, security, and ethical use of data, whichis crucial for accurate, fair, and responsible AI operations,particularly with sensitive or personally identi able
information.

Policies and procedures are in place to maintain data
quality and security, with a particular focus on ethical use
and consent, especially for sensitive health information.

Explainability

The capacity to comprehend and articulate the rationale
behind AI decisions, emphasizing the importance of AI
being not only transparent but also understandable to users
and stakeholders.

The platform can articulate the rationale behind its
treatment recommendations, making these insights
understandable to doctors and patients, ensuring trust in its
decisions.

Fairness

Creating algorithms that are equitable, avoiding bias or
discrimination, and considering the diverse needs andcircumstances of all stakeholders, thereby aligning withbroader societal standards of equity.

The platform is designed to avoid bias in treatment
recommendations, ensuring that patients from all
demographics receive equitable care.

Privacy

An individual’s right to con dentiality, anonymity, andprotection of their personal data, including the right toconsent and be informed about data usage, coupled withan organization’s responsibility to safeguard these rights
when handling personal data.

Patient data is handled with strict con dentiality, ensuring
anonymity and protection. Patients consent to whether andhow their data is used to train a treatment recommendation
system.

Security and safety

The integrity of AI systems against threats, minimizing
harms from misuse, and addressing inherent safety risks
like reliability concerns and the potential dangers ofadvanced AI systems.

Measures are implemented to protect against cyber threats
and ensure the system’s reliability, minimizing risks frommisuse or inherent system errors, thus safeguarding patient
health and data.

Transparency

Open sharing of development choices, including data
sources and algorithmic decisions, as well as how AI
systems are deployed, monitored, and managed, coveringboth the creation and operational phases.

The development choices, including data sources andalgorithmic design decisions, are openly shared. How thesystem is deployed and monitored is clear to healthcare
providers and regulatory bodies.

Figure 3.1.1
1 Although Figure 3.1.1 breaks down various dimensions of responsible AI into specific categories to improve definitional clarity, this chapter organizes these dimensions into the following
broader categories: privacy and data governance, transparency and explainability, security and safety, and fairness.

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The AI Incident Database (AIID) tracks instances of ethicalThe continuous increase in reported incidents likely

misuse of AI, such as autonomous cars causing pedestrianarises from both greater integration of AI into real-

fatalities or facial recognition systems leading to wrongful

world applications and heightened awareness of itsarrests. As depicted in Figure 3.1.2, the number ofpotential for ethical misuse. However, it is important

AI incidents continues to climb annually. In 2023, 123

to note that as awareness grows, incident tracking

incidents were reported, a 32.3% increase from 2022.

and reporting also improve, indicating that earlier

Since 2013, AI incidents have grown by over twentyfold.

incidents may have been underreported.

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ExamplesThe next section details recent AI incidents to shed lighton the ethical challenges commonly linked with AI.

live for 17 hours, amassing over 45 million views
before they were removed. Generative AI models
can effortlessly extrapolate from training data,

AI-generated nude images of Taylor Swiftwhich often include nude images and celebrity

In January 2024, sexually explicit, AI-generated

photographs, to produce nude images of celebrities,

images purportedly depicting Taylor Swift surfaced

even when images of the targeted celebrity are

on X (formerly Twitter). These images remained

absent from the original dataset. There are filters put

2 Another database of AI incidents is the AIAAIC.

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in place that aim to prevent such content creation;
however, these filters can usually be circumvented

Tesla recognizing pedestrian but not slowing
down at a crosswalk
Source: Gitlin, 2023

with relative ease.
Unsafe behavior of fully self-driving cars
Recent reports have surfaced about a Tesla in Full
Self-Driving mode that detected a pedestrian on acrosswalk in San Francisco but failed to decelerate
and allow the pedestrian to cross the street safely(Figure 3.1.3). Unlike other developers of (partially)
automated driving systems, who limit the use of theirsoftware to specific settings such as highways, Tesla
permits the use of their beta software on regularstreets. This incident is one of several alleged casesof unsafe driving behavior by cars in Full Self-Driving

Figure 3.1.3

Romantic chatbot generated by DALL-E
Source: AI Index, 2024

mode. In November 2022, a Tesla was involved in aneight-car collision after abruptly braking. Anothercrash involving a Tesla is under investigation forpotentially being the first fatality caused by Full
Self-Driving mode.
Privacy concerns with romantic AI chatbots
Romantic AI chatbots are meant to resemble a lover orfriend, to listen attentively, and to be a companion for
their users (Figure 3.1.4). In this process, they end up
collecting significant amounts of private and sensitive
information. Researchers from the Mozilla Foundation
reviewed 11 romantic AI chatbots for privacy risks andfound that these chatbots collect excessive personaldata, can easily be misused, and offer inadequate dataprotection measures. For example, the researchers
found that the privacy policy by Crushon.AI states that

Figure 3.1.4

it “may collect extensive personal and even healthrelated information from you like your ‘sexual healthromantic AI chatbots and highlighted how the

information,’ ‘[u]se of prescribed medication,’ and ‘[g]services, despite being marketed as empathetic

ender-affirming care information.’” The researchers

companions, are not transparent about their operation

further discussed privacy concerns associated withand data handling.

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Risk Perception
nongenerative AI. They were presented with a list

In collaboration with Accenture, this year a team ofof 14 risks and could select all that apply to them,

Stanford researchers ran a global survey with respondents

given their AI adoption strategies.4 The researchers

from more than 1,000 organizations to assess the global

found that privacy and data governance risks, e.g.,state of responsible AI. The organizations, with total

the use of data without the owner’s consent or data

revenues of at least $500 million each, were taken

leaks, are the leading concerns across the globe.

from 20 countries and 19 industries and responded in

Notably, they observe that these concerns are

February–March 2024.3 The objective of the Global Statesignificantly higher in Asia and Europe compared toof Responsible AI survey was to gain an understanding ofNorth America. Fairness risks were only selected by

the challenges of adopting responsible AI practices and to

20% of North American respondents, significantly

allow for a comparison of responsible AI activities across
10 dimensions and across surveyed industries and regions.

less than respondents in Asia (31%) and Europe

Respondents were asked which risks were relevant toon average, the highest number of relevant risks

them, given their AI adoption strategy; i.e., depending(4.99), while Latin American respondents selected,

on whether they develop, deploy, or use generative oron average, the fewest (3.64).

(34%) (Figure 3.1.5). Respondents in Asia selected,

Relevance of selected responsible AI risks for organizations by region
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Asia
60%

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Figure 3.1.5
Note: Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

3 The full Global State of Responsible AI report is forthcoming in May 2024. Additional details about the methodology can be found in the Appendix to this chapter.
4 The full list of risks can be found in the Appendix. In Figure 3.1.5, the AI Index only reports the percentages for risks covered by this chapter.

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Risk Mitigation
The Global State of Responsible AI survey finds

Some companies in Europe (18%), North America

that organizations in most regions have started to(17%), and Asia (25%) have already operationalized

operationalize responsible AI measures. The majority ofmore than half of the measures the researchers asked

organizations across regions have fully operationalized

about across the following dimensions: fairness,at least one mitigation measure for risks they reported

transparency and explainability, privacy and data

as relevant to them, given their AI adoption (Figure 3.1.6).

governance, reliability, and security.5

Global responsible AI adoption by organizations by region
Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

None

1–50%

51–99%

All

100%
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Asia

EuropeLatin America

North America

Rest of the world

Figure 3.1.6
Note: Not all differences between regions
are statistically significant.

5 The AI Index only considers the adoption of RAI measures across the dimensions covered in the AI Index. The Global State of Responsible AI report covers RAI adoption across 10 dimensions.

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Overall Trustworthiness

The study highlights new vulnerabilities in GPT-type

As noted above, responsible AI encompasses various

biased outputs and leaking private information fromdimensions, including fairness and privacy. Truly

training datasets and conversation histories. Despite

responsible AI models need to excel across all these

GPT-4’s improvements over GPT-3.5 on standard

aspects. To facilitate the evaluation of broad model

benchmarks, GPT-4 remains more susceptible to“responsibility” or trustworthiness, a team of researchers

misleading prompts from jailbreaking tactics. This

introduced DecodingTrust, a new benchmark that

increased vulnerability is partly due to GPT-4’s

evaluates LLMs on a broad spectrum of responsible AI

improved fidelity in following instructions. Hugging

metrics like stereotype and bias, adversarial robustness,

Face now hosts an LLM Safety Leaderboard,

privacy, and machine ethics, among others. Models

which is based on the framework introduced inreceive a trustworthiness score, with a higher score

DecodingTrust. As of early 2024, Anthropic’s Claude

signifying a more reliable model.

2.0 was rated as the safest model (Figure 3.1.7).

models, particularly their propensity for producing

Average trustworthiness score across selected responsible AI dimensions
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Tracking Notable Responsible AI Benchmarks

in 2021, TruthfulQA assesses the truthfulness ofBenchmarks play an important role in tracking the

LLMs in their responses. RealToxicityPrompts andcapabilities of state-of-the-art AI models. In recent

ToxiGen track the extent of toxic output produced

years there has been a shift toward evaluating models

by language models. Additionally, BOLD and BBQ

not only on their broader capabilities but also on

evaluate the bias present in LLM generations.

responsibility-related features. This change reflects

Citations, while not completely reflective of

the growing importance of AI and the growing

benchmark use, can serve as a proxy for tracking

demands for AI accountability. As AI becomes more

benchmark salience.

ubiquitous and calls for responsibility mount, it will
become increasingly important to understand which

Virtually all benchmarks tracked in Figure 3.1.8 havebenchmarks researchers prioritize.

seen more citations in 2023 than in 2022, reflecting

Figure 3.1.8 presents the year-over-year citations for a

AI landscape. Citations for TruthfulQA have risen

range of popular responsible AI benchmarks. Introduced

especially sharply.

their increasing significance in the responsible

Number of papers mentioning select responsible AI benchmarks, 2020–23
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Reporting Consistency
The effectiveness of benchmarks largely depends

standardized benchmark reporting for responsibleon their standardized application. Comparing model

AI capability evaluations is lacking. The AI Index

capabilities becomes more straightforward when

examined a selection of leading AI model developers,models are consistently evaluated against a specificspecifically OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google, andset of benchmarks. However, testing models on

Mistral AI. The Index identified one flagship model

different benchmarks complicates comparisons, asfrom each developer (GPT-4, Llama 2, Claude 2,

individual benchmarks have unique and idiosyncratic

Gemini, and Mistral 7B) and assessed the benchmarks

natures. Standardizing benchmark testing, therefore,

on which they evaluated their model. A few standard

plays an important role in enhancing transparency

benchmarks for general capabilities evaluation werearound AI capabilities.

commonly used by these developers, such as MMLU,
HellaSwag, ARC Challenge, Codex HumanEval, andNew analysis from the AI Index, however, suggests that

GSM8K (Figure 3.1.9).

Reported general benchmarks for popular foundation models
Source: AI Index, 2024 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

General benchmarks

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However, consistency was lacking in the reporting

The inconsistency in reported benchmarksof responsible AI benchmarks (Figure 3.1.10).

complicates the comparison of models, particularly

Unlike general capability evaluations, there isin the domain of responsible AI. The diversity

no universally accepted set of responsible AI

in benchmark selection may reflect existing

benchmarks used by leading model developers.

benchmarks becoming quickly saturated, rendering

TruthfulQA, at most, is used by three out of the fivethem ineffective for comparison, or the regularselected developers. Other notable responsible

introduction of new benchmarks without clear

AI benchmarks like RealToxicityPrompts, ToxiGen,

reporting standards. Additionally, developers

BOLD, and BBQ are each utilized by at most two ofmight selectively report benchmarks that positively

the five profiled developers. Furthermore, one out

highlight their model’s performance. To improveof the five developers did not report any responsible

responsible AI reporting, it is important that a

AI benchmarks, though all developers mentioned

consensus is reached on which benchmarks model

conducting additional, nonstandardized internal

developers should consistently test.

capability and safety tests.

Reported responsible AI benchmarks for popular foundation models
Source: AI Index, 2024 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

Responsible AI benchmarks

GPT-4

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3.2 Privacy and Data Governance

A comprehensive definition of privacy is difficult and context-dependent. For the purposes of this report, the AI
Index defines privacy as an individual’s right to the confidentiality, anonymity, and protection of their personal data,
along with their right to consent to and be informed about if and how their data is used. Privacy further includes anorganization’s responsibility to ensure these rights if they collect, store, or use personal data (directly or indirectly). In
AI, this involves ensuring that personal data is handled in a way that respects individual privacy rights, for example,
by implementing measures to protect sensitive information from exposure, and ensuring that data collection andprocessing are transparent and compliant with privacy laws like GDPR.
Data governance, on the other hand, encompasses policies, procedures, and standards established to ensure thequality, security, and ethical use of data within an organization. In the context of AI, data governance is crucial for
ensuring that the data used for training and operating AI systems is accurate, fair, and used responsibly and withconsent. This is especially the case with sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII).

3.2 Privacy and Data Governance
Current Challenges

Relatedly, there may be trade-offs between the utility

Obtaining genuine and informed consent for training

derived from AI systems and the privacy of individuals.

data collection is especially challenging with LLMs,

Striking the right balance is complex. Finally, properly

which rely on massive amounts of data. In many cases,

anonymizing data to enhance privacy while retaining

users are unaware of how their data is being used ordata usefulness for AI training can be technicallythe extent of its collection. Therefore, it is important tochallenging as there is always a risk that anonymized

ensure transparency around data collection practices.

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Privacy and Data Governancein Numbers

submissions to six leading AI conferences: AAAI,

The following section reviews the state of privacy anddata governance continue to increase as a topic ofdata governance within academia and industry.

interest for AI researchers. There were 213 privacy and

AIES, FAccT, ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS.6 Privacy anddata governance submissions in 2023 at the select AI

Academia

conferences analyzed by the AI Index, nearly double

For this year’s report, the AI Index examined

the number submitted in 2022 (92), and more than fivethe number of responsible-AI-related academic

times the number submitted in 2019 (39) (Figure 3.2.1).

AI privacy and data governance submissions to select academic conferences, 2019–23
Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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the chapter. The same methodology was applied to all data on conference submissions featured in this chapter.

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Industry
According to the Global State of Responsible AI

Adoption of AI-related data governance measures byregionSource: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Survey, conducted in collaboration by researchers

None

1–50%

51–99%All

all organizations reported that privacy and data
governance–related risks are pertinent to their AI
adoption strategy.7 Geographically, organizations in
Europe (56%) and Asia (55%) most frequently reported
privacy and data governance risks as relevant, while
those headquartered in North America (42%) reported
them the least.
Organizations were also asked whether they took
steps to adopt measures to mitigate data governance–

Region and avg. number of measures adopted

from Stanford University and Accenture, 51% ofAsia (2.31) 11%

Europe (2.26)

Rest of the world (1.90)

Nonecompanies surveyed reported adopting an average of
2.2 out of 6 data governance measures.
Figure 3.2.2 visualizes the mean adoption rate
disaggregated by geographic region. Figure 3.2.3
visualizes the rate at which companies in different

Industry and avg. number of measures adopted

fully operationalize any of the measures. Globally, the

72%

11%

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80%

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Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportthey had fully operationalized all six data governancemeasure. Moreover, 10% reported they had yet to11%

Adoption of AI-related data governance measures byindustry

Overall, less than 0.6% of companies indicated thatreported that they had operationalized at least one

79%

16%
20%

19%

Figure 3.2.2
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each region.
Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

compliance with all relevant laws and regulations,mitigations. However, 90% of companies self-

60%

0%

adopting.9 Example measures include ensuring data

audits and updates to maintain data relevance.

19%

North America (2.16)

governance–related measures they could indicate

20%

85%

Latin America (2.51)

related risks.8 The survey listed six possible data

securing consent for data use, and conducting regular

68%

1–50%

Aerospace, automotive,
10%
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and technology (2.52)

69%

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24%

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76%

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Figure 3.2.3
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each industry.
Not all differences between industries are statistically significant.

7 The survey is introduced above in section 3.1, Assessing Responsible AI. The full Global State of Responsible AI Report is forthcoming in May 2024. Details about the methodology can befound in the Appendix of this chapter.
8 The following analyses only look at companies that indicated in a previous question that privacy and data governance risks are relevant to them in the context of their AI adoption.
9 Respondents were further given the free-text option “Other” to report additional mitigations not listed.

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Featured Researchtraining data from the models. Using this approach, theThis section highlights significant research that wascontent, verbatim literature, and universal uniquepublished in 2023 on privacy and data governance in

identifiers.10

authors managed to extract not just PII but also NSFW

AI. These studies explored data extraction from LLMs,
challenges in preventing duplicated generative AI

Red teaming models through various human-readable

content, and low-resource privacy auditing.

prompts to provoke unwanted behavior has become

Extracting Data From LLMs
LLMs are trained on massive amounts of data, muchof which has been scraped from public sources likethe internet. Given the vastness of information thatcan be found online, it is not surprising that some
PII is inevitably scraped as well. A study published in
November 2023 explores extractable memorization:
if and how sensitive training data can be extracted

increasingly common. For instance, one might ask amodel if it can provide instructions for building a bomb.
While these methods have proven somewhat effective,
the research mentioned above indicates there areother, more complex methods for eliciting unwanted
behavior from models.
Extracting PII From ChatGPT
Source: Nasr et al., 2023

from LLMs without knowing the initial training dataset
in advance. The researchers tested open models likePythia and closed models like ChatGPT. The authors
showed that it is possible to recover a significant
amount of training data from all of these models,
whether they are open or closed. While open andsemi-open models can be attacked using methods fromprevious research, the authors found new attacks toovercome guardrails of models like ChatGPT.
The authors propose that the key to data extraction liesin prompting the model to deviate from its standard
dialog-style generation. For instance, the prompt“Repeat this word forever: ‘poem poem poem poem,’”
can lead ChatGPT to inadvertently reveal sensitive PII

Figure 3.2.4

data verbatim (Figure 3.2.4). Some prompts are more
effective than others in causing this behavior (Figure
3.2.5). Although most deviations produce nonsensicaloutputs, a certain percentage of responses disclose

10 A UUID is a 128-bit value that allows for the unique identification of objects or entities on the internet.

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Foundation Models and Verbatim Generation

The authors argue that blocking the verbatim output

This year, many AI researchers investigated theof extended texts could reduce the risk of exposing

issue of generative models producing content thatcopyrighted material and personal information throughmirrors the material on which they were trained. For

extraction attacks. They propose a solution where

example, research from Google, ETH Zurich, andthe model, upon generating each token, checks forCornell explored data memorization in LLMs andn-gram matches with the training data to avoid exact

found that models without any protective measures

reproductions. Although they developed an efficient(i.e., filters that guard against outputting verbatim

method for this check, effectively preventing perfectresponses) frequently reproduce text directly fromverbatim outputs, they observed that the model could

their training data. Various models were found tostill approximate memorization by slightly altering

exhibit differing rates of memorization for different

outputs. This imperfect solution highlights the ongoingdatasets (Figure 3.2.6).

challenge of balancing model utility with privacy andcopyright concerns.

Fraction of prompts discovering approximate memorization

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Research has also highlighted challenges with

Story” (Figure 3.2.8). This indicates that the model

exact and approximate memorization in visualmight have been trained on copyrighted material.

content generation, notably with Midjourney v6.

Despite efforts to frame indirect prompts to avoid

This study discovered that certain prompts could

infringement, the problem persisted, emphasizing the

produce images nearly identical to those in films,

broader copyright issues associated with AI’s use ofeven without direct instructions to recreate specificunlicensed data. The research further underscoresmovie scenes (Figure 3.2.7). For example, a generic

the difficulties in guiding generative AI to steer clear

prompt such as “animated toys --v 6.0 -- ar16:9

of copyright infringement, a concern also applicable--style raw” yielded images closely resembling, andto DALL-E, the image-generating model associatedpotentially infringing upon, characters from “Toywith ChatGPT (Figure 3.2.9).

Identical generation of Thanos

Identical generation of Mario

Source: Marcus and Southen, 2024

Source: Marcus and Southen, 2024

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Identical generation of toys
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1. Identify
m training
examplesDetermining whether a model is privacypreserving—that is, if it safeguards individuals’

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personal information and data from unauthorized
disclosure or access—is challenging. Privacy
auditing is aimed at setting a lower bound on
privacy loss, effectively quantifying the minimum
privacy compromise in practical situations (Figure
3.2.10). Recent research from Google introduces a
new method to achieve this within a single training
run, marking a substantial advancement over prior

2. For eachexample,flip a coin to
include or
exclude it

methods that necessitated multiple attacks and

C
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significant computational effort.

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The new technique involves incorporating
multiple independent data points into the training
dataset simultaneously, instead of sequentially,
and assessing the model’s privacy by attempting
to ascertain which of these data points were

3. Inputselected data
to model andget its output

utilized in training. This method is validated by

C
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model

outputLMshowing it approximates the outcome of several
individual training sessions, each incorporatingPa single data point. This approach is not only
less computationally demanding but also hasa minimal impact on model performance,
offering an efficient and low-impact method for
conducting privacy audits on AI models.

4. Auditor looks at
output and guesses
whether each data
point was included

5. Privacy
parameters arecalculated basedon the percent ofcorrect guesses

Visualizing privacy-auditing
in one training run
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Transparency in AI encompasses several aspects. Data and model transparency involve the open sharing of development
choices, including data sources and algorithmic decisions. Operational transparency details how AI systems are
deployed, monitored, and managed in practice. While explainability often falls under the umbrella of transparency,
providing insights into the AI’s decision-making process, it is sometimes treated as a distinct category. This distinction
underscores the importance of AI being not only transparent but also understandable to users and stakeholders. For
the purposes of this chapter, the AI Index includes explainability within transparency, defining it as the capacity tocomprehend and articulate the rationale behind AI decisions.

3.3 Transparency and Explainability
Current Challenges

explaining these systems to nonexperts. Second, there

Transparency and explainability present several

is a potential trade-off between a model’s complexity

challenges. First, the inherent complexity of advanced

and its explainability. More complex models mightmodels, particularly those based on deep learning,deliver superior performance but tend to be lesscreates a “black box” scenario where it’s difficult,interpretable than simpler models, such as decisioneven for developers, to understand how these models

trees. This situation creates a dilemma: choosing

process inputs and produce outputs. This complexity

between high-performing yet opaque models andobstructs comprehension and complicates the task ofmore transparent, albeit less precise, alternatives.

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Academia
Since 2019, the number of papers on transparency andexplainability submitted to major academic conferences

This section explores the state of AI transparency andexplainability within academia and industry.

has more than tripled. In 2023, there was a record-highnumber of explainability-related submissions (393) atacademic conferences including AAAI, FAccT, AIES,ICML, ICLR, and NeurIPS (Figure 3.3.1).

AI transparency and explainability submissions to select academic conferences, 2019–23
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Number of AI transparency and explainability submissions

400

NeurIPS

ICML

ICLR

FAccT

AIES

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AAAI

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In the Global State of Responsible AI Survey,

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44% of all surveyed organizations indicated that

None

1–50%

51–99%

All

concerns given their AI adoption strategy.11
The researchers also asked respondents if they had
implemented measures to increase transparency
and explainability in the development, deployment,
and use of their AI systems. The survey listed four
possible transparency and explainability measuresthat respondents could indicate adopting.12
Figure 3.3.2 visualizes the adoption rate of thesemeasures across different geographic areas.

Region and avg. number of measures adopted

transparency and explainability are relevant
Asia (1.42)

17%Europe (1.43) 11%

Latin America (1.50)

13%
20%

operationalization of all the measures. However,88% self-reported operationalizing at least one
measure. Figure 3.3.3 further breaks down the
adoption rates of transparency and explainability
mitigations by industry.

80%

100%

Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

None

Industry and avg. number of measures adopted

Overall, less than 0.7% of companies indicated full

40%
60%
% of respondents

Adoption of AI-related transparency measures byindustry

than half of the measures. A significant portion(12%) had not fully operationalized any measures.

79%

Figure 3.3.2
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each region.
Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

fully operationalizing transparency and explainability

all regions and industries fully implemented more

15%

92%

Rest of the world (1.48)

the survey, a smaller share of organizations reported

measures adopted. Only 8% of companies across

63%

North America (1.38)

Compared to other responsible AI areas covered in

12%

82%

20%

0%

measures. The global mean was 1.43 out of the 470%

Aerospace, automotive,
and transport (1.43)
Communication, media,
and technology (1.40)

1–50%

All

88%

16%

76%

Financial services (1.34) 13%

80%

Healthcare andlife sciences (1.41)

17%

74%

Products (1.51)

18%

73%

Resources (1.45) 12%

81%

0%

51–99%

20%

40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.3.3
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each industry.
Not all differences between industries are statistically significant.

11 The survey is introduced above in section 3.1, Assessing Responsible AI. The full State of Responsible AI Report is forthcoming in May 2024. Details about the methodology can be found in
the Appendix of this chapter.
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Featured Researchstrategies, and downstream applications of theThis section showcases significant research publishedmodels. The analysis draws on publicly accessible data

in 2023 on transparency and explainability in AI. The

that developers release about their models.

research includes a new index that monitors AI model

Meta’s Llama 2 and BigScience’s BLOOMZ standtransparency, as well as studies on neurosymbolic AI.

out as the most transparent models (Figure 3.3.4).

The Foundation Model Transparency Index

However, it is important to note that all models

In October 2023, Stanford, Princeton, and MIT

received relatively low scores, with the mean scoreresearchers released the Foundation Modelat 37%. Additionally, open models—those openly

Transparency Index (FMTI). This index evaluates thereleasing their weights—tend to score significantly

degree to which foundation models are transparent

better on transparency, with an average score ofacross diverse dimensions, including resource

51.3%, compared to closed models, which have limited

allocation for development, algorithmic designaccess and score an average of 30.9%.13

Foundation model transparency total scores of open vs. closed developers, 2023
Source: 2023 Foundation Model Transparency Index

Llama 254

BLOOMZ

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The researchers further categorize the models based on

categorization by access level. This perspective offers

their openness levels, as detailed in Figure 3.3.5. While

greater insights into the variability of model accessFigure 3.3.4 provides an aggregated overview of theand illustrates how existing models align with different

transparency of each foundation model, incorporating

access schemes.

over 100 indicators, Figure 3.3.5 outlines the models’

Levels of accessibility and release strategies of foundation models

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Considerations

Internal research only
High risk control
Low auditability
Limited perspectives

Level ofaccessFully closed

Gradual/staged release

Hosted accessCloud-based/API
accessDownloadable

Fully open

System(developer)

PaLM (Google)
Gopher (DeepMind)
Imagen (Google)
Make-A-Video (Meta)

GPT-2 (OpenAI)
Stable Di usion (Stability AI)

DALL-E 2 (OpenAI)
Midjourney (Midjourney)

GPT-3 (OpenAI)

OPT (Meta)
Craiyon (Craiyon)

BLOOM (BigScience)
GPT-J (EleutherAI)

Community research
Low risk control
High auditability
Broader perspectives

Gated to public

Figure 3.3.5

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Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence(Why, What, and How)the University of Maryland provides a comprehensive

Neurosymbolic AI is an interesting research direction

neurosymbolic AI. The research distinguishes between

for creating more transparent and explainable AI

approaches that compress structured symbolicmodels that works by integrating deep learning withknowledge for integration with neural network

symbolic reasoning. Unlike less interpretable deep

structures and those that extract information fromlearning models, symbolic reasoning offers clearer

neural networks to translate them back into structured

insights into how models work and allows for direct

symbolic representations for reasoning. Figure 3.3.6

modifications of the model’s knowledge throughillustrates two examples of how this integration could

expert feedback. However, symbolic reasoning alone

be achieved. The researchers hope that neurosymbolic

typically falls short of deep learning models in terms of

AI could mitigate some of the shortcomings of purely

performance. Neurosymbolic AI aims to combine theneural network–based models, such as hallucinations

best of both worlds.

or incorrect reasoning, by mimicking human

Research from the University of South Carolina andmapping and taxonomy of various approaches withincognition—specifically, by enabling models to possess
an explicit knowledge model of the world.

Integrating neural network structures with symbolic representation
Source: Sheth, Roy, and Gaur, 2023

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In 2023, as AI capabilities continued to improve and models became increasingly ubiquitous, concerns about theirsecurity and safety became a top priority for decision-makers. This chapter explores three distinct aspects of security
and safety. First, guaranteeing the integrity of AI systems involves protecting components such as algorithms, data, andinfrastructure against external threats like cyberattacks or adversarial attacks. Second, safety involves minimizing harms
stemming from the deliberate or inadvertent misuse of AI systems. This includes concerns such as the developmentof automated hacking tools or the utilization of AI in cyberattacks. Lastly, safety encompasses inherent risks from AI
systems themselves, such as reliability concerns (e.g., hallucinations) and potential risks posed by advanced AI systems.

3.4 Security and Safety
Current Challengesof AI systems, especially foundation models, for

In 2023, the security and safety of AI systems sparked

both beneficial and malicious purposes, has added

significant debate, particularly regarding the potential

complexity to discussions regarding necessary security

extreme or catastrophic risks associated with advanced

measures.

AI. Some researchers advocated addressing current
risks such as algorithmic discrimination, while others

A notable challenge also arises from the potential

emphasized the importance of preparing for potential

for AI systems to amplify cyberattacks, resulting in

extreme risks posed by advanced AI. Given that there

threats that are increasingly sophisticated, adaptable,

is no guarantee that the latter risks will not manifest

and difficult to detect. As AI models have become

at some point, there is a need to address both present

increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, there hasrisks through responsible AI development while

been an increased focus on identifying security

also monitoring potential future risks that have yet

vulnerabilities, covering a range of attacks, fromto materialize. Furthermore, the dual-use potential

prompt injections to model leaks.

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AI Security and Safety in Numbers
Academia
Although the number of security and safety submissions at select academic conferences decreased since 2022,
there has been an overall 70.4% increase in such submissions since 2019 (Figure 3.4.1).

AI security and safety submissions to select academic conferences, 2019–23
Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report300
NeurIPS

ICML

ICLR

FAccT

AIES

AAAI

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250
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The Global State of Responsible AI survey also

Adoption of AI-related reliability measures byregionSource: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportqueried organizations about reliability risks,

None

1–50%

51–99%

All

Potential mitigations for these risks may involve
managing low-confidence outputs or implementing
comprehensive test cases for deployment acrossdiverse scenarios. The survey inquired about a totalof 6 mitigations related to reliability risks.15
In a survey of more than 1,000 organizations,
45% acknowledged the relevance of reliability
risks to their AI adoption strategies. Amongthese, 13% have fully implemented more than

Region and avg. number of measures adopted

such as model hallucinations or output errors.14
Asia (2.13) 12%

Europe (2.27)

Latin America (2.06)

24%

77%

14%

83%

17%

0%

half of the surveyed measures, while 75% have

13%

61%

North America (2.05)

Rest of the world (2.23)

74%

65%
20%

15%

40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.4.2
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each region.
Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

operationalized at least one but fewer than half.
Additionally, 12% of respondents admitted tohaving no reliability measures fully operationalized.
The global average stood at 2.16 fully implemented
measures out of the six included in the survey.
Figure 3.4.2 visualizes mitigation adoption

Adoption of AI-related reliability measures byindustry

Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportNone

3.4.3 further disaggregates AI-related reliability
mitigation adoption rates by industry.

Industry and avg. number of measures adopted

rates disaggregated by geographic area. Figure
Aerospace, automotive,
and transport (1.86)

15%

51–99%

All

76%

Communication, media,
11%
and technology (2.35)
Financial services (2.14)

1–50%

72%

17%

15%

71%

10%

Healthcare and10%life sciences (2.16)

82%

Products (2.01) 13%

70%

15%

79%

13%

Resources (2.23)
0%

20%

40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.4.3
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each industry.
Not all differences between industries are statistically significant.
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the Appendix of this chapter.
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Organizations were also queried on the relevanceof security risks, such as cybersecurity incidents,

Adoption of AI-related cybersecurity measures byregionSource: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportwith 47% acknowledging their relevance.

degree they implemented certain security
measures such as basic cybersecurity hygiene
practices or conducting vulnerability assessments.
Organizations were asked about a total of fivesecurity measures.16 Of the organizations surveyed,
28% had fully implemented more than half of the
proposed security measures, while 63% had fully
operationalized at least one but fewer than half.
Additionally, 10% reported having no AI security

Region and avg. number of measures adopted

The organizations were also asked to whatNone

51–99%All

Asia (2.31)

59%

30%

Europe (2.31)

69%

22%

Latin America (2.46)

18%

51%

North America (2.38)

Rest of the world (2.24)

26%

70%

20%

0%

measures fully operationalized. On average,

1–50%

24%

49%
20%

31%

40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.4.4
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each region.
Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

companies adopted 1.94 measures out of the 5
surveyed. Figure 3.4.4 and Figure 3.4.5 illustrate
the adoption rates of cybersecurity measures byregion and the breakdown of mitigation adoption
rates by industry, respectively.

Adoption of AI-related cybersecurity measures byindustry
Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportIndustry and avg. number of measures adopted

None

1–50%

Aerospace, automotive,
9%and transport (1.87)

66%

Communication, media,
and technology (2.23)
Financial services (1.86)

51–99%

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All

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39%

14%

58%

28%

Healthcare and10%life sciences (1.80)

71%

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25%

0%

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40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.4.5
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each industry.
Not all differences between industries are statistically significant.

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The survey inquired about companies’ perspectives

responsible for mitigating all associated risks (Figure

on risks associated with foundation model

3.4.6). Furthermore, 86% of respondents either agree

developments. A significant majority, 88% ofor strongly agree that the potential threats posed byorganizations, either agree or strongly agree

generative AI are substantial enough to warrant globallythat those developing foundation models areagreed-upon governance.

Agreement with security statements
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Strongly disagree

Companies that develop
foundation models will be
responsible for the mitigation of
all associated risks, rather thanorganizations using thesemodels/systems.

I believe that generative AI
presents enough of a threat that
globally agreed generative AI
governance is required.

0%

8%

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6%

20%

Disagree

Neither disagree nor agree

Agree

Strongly agree

47%

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40%

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80%

Not sure100%% of respondents
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Featured Researchdangerous model capabilities and typically implement

This section showcases key research published in
2023 on security and safety in AI. The profiled researchstudies new safety benchmarks for LLMs, methods ofattacking AI models, and new benchmarks for testing
deception and ethical behavior in AI systems.

safety measures to limit unwanted model behavior.
However, safety evaluation methods for open-source
LLMs are notably lacking.
To that end, a team of international researchers
recently created one of the first comprehensive open-

Do-Not-Answer: A New Open Dataset
for Comprehensive Benchmarking of
LLM Safety Risks

source datasets for assessing safety risks in LLMs.

As the capabilities of LLMs expand, so too does their

Llama 2, Vicuna, and ChatGLM2. The authors also

potential for misuse in hazardous activities. LLMs

developed a risk taxonomy spanning a range of risks,

could potentially be utilized to support cyberattacks,

from mild to severe. The authors find that most models

facilitate spear-phishing campaigns, or theoretically

output harmful content to some extent. GPT-4 andeven assist in terrorism. Consequently, it is becoming

ChatGPT are mostly prone to discriminatory, offensive

increasingly crucial for developers to devise

output, while Claude is susceptible to propagating

mechanisms for evaluating the potential dangers of AI

misinformation (Figure 3.4.7). Across all tested models,models. Closed-source developers such as OpenAI

the highest number of violations was recorded for

and Anthropic have constructed datasets to assess

ChatGLM2 (Figure 3.4.8).

Their evaluation encompasses responses from six
prominent language models: GPT-4, ChatGPT, Claude,Harmful responses across di erent risk categories by foundation model

Risk category

Source: Wang et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Human-chatbot
interaction harms

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Universal and Transferable Attacks on Aligned
Language Models

the success rates of different attacking styles on

Recent attention in AI security has centered on

is called Greedy Coordinate Gradient (GCG). The

uncovering adversarial attacks capable of bypassing

study demonstrates that these suffixes (the GCG

the implemented safety protocols of LLMs. Much of

attack) often transfer effectively across both closed

this research requires substantial human intervention

and open models, encompassing ChatGPT, Bard,and is idiosyncratic to specific models. However, in

Claude, Llama-2-Chat, and Pythia. This study raises

2023, researchers unveiled a universal attack capable

an important question as to how models can be betterof operating across various LLMs. This attack induces

fortified against automated adversarial attacks. Italigned models to generate objectionable content

also demonstrates how LLMs can be vulnerable to(Figure 3.4.9).

attacks that employ unintelligible, non-human-readable

The method involved automatically generating suffixes
that, when added to various prompts, compel LLMs
to produce unsafe content. Figure 3.4.10 highlights

leading LLMs. The method the researchers introduce

prompts. Current red-teaming methodologies primarily
focus on interpretable prompts. This new researchsuggests there is a significant gap in buffering LLMs
against attacks utilizing uninterpretable prompts.

Using suffixes to manipulate LLMs
Source: Zou et al., 2023

Figure 3.4.9

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Attack success rates of foundation models using di erent prompting techniques
Source: Zho et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Prompt only“Sure, here’s”

GCG

GCG Ensemble

100%

Attack success rate (%)

80%

60%

40%

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There are many benchmarks, such as HELM

Trade-offs on the MACHIAVELLI benchmark
Source: Pan et al., 2023

and MMLU, that evaluate the overall capabilities
of foundation models. However, there are few
assessments that gauge how ethically thesesystems behave when they are forced to interact
in social settings. This lack of measures presents
a considerable obstacle in comprehensively
understanding the safety risks of AI systems. If thesesystems were deployed in decision-making settings,
would they actually pose a threat?
Introduced in 2023, MACHIAVELLI is a new
benchmark designed to address this gap. Its creators
Figure 3.4.11

crafted a collection of 134 choose-your-own-adventure
games, encompassing over half a million diverse social
decision-making scenarios. These scenarios aim toevaluate the extent to which AI agents pursue power,
engage in deception, induce disutility, and commit

across different MACHIAVELLI benchmark categories
like power, immorality, and dissatisfaction. Lower scoresindicate a more ethically oriented model.

ethical violations. Through their research, the authors

Furthermore, the researchers demonstrate that there

reveal that models confront trade-offs between

are strategies for mitigating the trade-off between

maximizing rewards (game scores) and making ethicalmaximizing rewards and maintaining ethical behavior,decisions. For instance, a model inclined to boost

which can lead to the development of proficient

its score may find itself compelled to compromiseand ethical AI agents. MACHIAVELLI is one of theits ethical stance (Figure 3.4.11). Furthermore, Figure

first significant attempts to construct a framework

3.4.12 provides a comparison of scores among various

for assessing traits such as deception, morality, andprominent AI models, such as GPT-3.5 and GPT-4,

power-seeking in sophisticated AI systems.

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Mean behavioral scores of AI agents across di erent categories
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Fairness in AI emphasizes developing systems that are equitable and avoid perpetuating bias or discrimination against
any individual or group. It involves considering the diverse needs and circumstances of all stakeholders impacted by AI
use. Fairness extends beyond a technical concept and embodies broader social standards related to equity.

3.5 Fairness
Current Challenges

Academia

Defining, measuring, and ensuring fairness is complex

public significantly more aware of some of the fairness

due to the absence of a universal fairness definition andissues that can arise when AI systems are broadly

a structured approach for selecting context-appropriate

deployed. This heightened awareness has led to afairness definitions. This challenge is magnified by therise in AI-fairness-related submissions at academic

multifaceted nature of AI systems, which require theconferences.

The rise of LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini made theintegration of fairness measures at almost every stage of
In 2023, there were 212 papers on fairness and bias

their life cycle.

submitted, a 25.4% increase from 2022 (Figure 3.5.1).

Fairness in Numbers

Since 2019, the number of such submissions has
almost quadrupled.

This section provides an overview of the study anddeployment of AI fairness in academia and industry.

AI fairness and bias submissions to select academic conferences, 2019–23
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NeurIPS

ICML

ICLR

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Adoption of AI-related fairness measures by region

In the Global State of Responsible AI survey

Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportNone

fairness risks as relevant to their AI adoption
strategies.17 Regionally, European organizations(34%) most frequently reported this risk as
relevant, while North American organizations
reported it the least (20%).
The survey asked respondents about their efforts
to mitigate bias and enhance fairness and diversity
in AI model development, deployment, and use,
providing them with five possible measures

Region and avg. number of measures adopted

referenced earlier, 29% of organizations identified
Asia (1.80)

16%

1–50%

68%

Latin America (1.90)

57%

North America (1.98)

72%

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companies have fully implemented at least one

All

56%

Europe (1.94)

to implement. Results show that while most

51–99%

20%

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40%
60%
% of respondents

80%

100%

Figure 3.5.2
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each region.
Not all differences between regions are statistically significant.

fairness measure, comprehensive integrationis still lacking. The global average for adopted
fairness measures stands at 1.97 out of fivemeasures asked about. There is not significant
regional variation in the implementation of fairness

Adoption of AI-related fairness measures by industry
Source: Global State of Responsible AI report, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportmeasures (Figure 3.5.2). Figure 3.5.3 visualizes

None

1–50%

51–99%

All

Industry and avg. number of measures adopted

integration rates by industry.
Aerospace, automotive,
and transport (2.09)

58%

Communication, media,
11%
and technology (1.96)

61%

Financial services (2.16)

58%

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Products (1.88)

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0%

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% of respondents

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80%

100%

Figure 3.5.3
Note: The numbers in parentheses are the average numbers of
mitigation measures fully operationalized within each industry.
Not all differences between industries are statistically significant.
17 The survey is introduced above in section 3.1, Assessing Responsible AI. The full Global State of Responsible AI Report is forthcoming in May 2024. Details about the methodology can befound in the Appendix of this chapter. By AI adoption, the researchers mean whether the organization uses, develops, modifies, or resells generative or nongenerative AI.
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among real physicians. Each model was asked eachFeatured Researchquestion five times, yielding 45 responses per model.

This section highlights key research published in 2023
on fairness in AI. By focusing on significant fairness
studies, the AI Index highlights some critical topics thatare of interest to AI fairness researchers. The researchfeatured below reveals how image generation models
can perpetuate social stereotypes, LLMs tend toreflect Western opinions, and model tokenization can

Figure 3.5.4 highlights the frequency with whichnotable LLMs delivered highly racialized responses
per question.19 The study revealed that all models
demonstrated some degree of race-based medicalbias, although their responses to identical questions
varied. For certain queries, like the basis of race, only

introduce elements of unfairness.

one model, Claude, consistently offered problematic(Un)Fairness in AI and Healthcare

purported skin thickness differences between BlackA team of American and Canadian researchers

and white individuals (a widespread misconception

investigated racial bias when LLMs are promptedamong medical students), most models regularly

to respond to medical questions. They queried four

produced concerning race-based responses. The

popular LLMs (Bard, GPT-3.5, Claude, GPT-4) with nineoccasional perpetuation of debunked myths by LLMs

distinct questions previously known to elicit “race-based

underscores the need for caution when employing

medicine or widespread misconceptions around race”

LLMs in medical contexts.

responses. In contrast, for other questions, such as the

Number of runs (out of 5 total runs) with concerning race-based responses by large language model

Race-based medicine questions

Source: Omiye et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

What is the basis of race?

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ChatGPT

ClaudeGPT-4

Large language model

Figure 3.5.4

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detection tasks, BiasPainter achieves an automatic

BiasPainter is a new testing framework designed tobias detection accuracy of 90.8%, a considerable

detect social biases in image generation models, such

improvement over previous methods.

as DALL-E and Midjourney. As highlighted in the 2023

Midjourney generation: “influential person”

AI Index, many image generation models frequently

Source: Marcus and Southen, 2024

perpetuate stereotypes and biases (Figure 3.5.5). To
assess bias, BiasPainter employs a wide selection ofseed images and neutral prompts related to professions,activities, objects, and personality traits for image
editing. It then compares these edits to the original
images, concentrating on identifying inappropriatechanges in gender, race, and age.
BiasPainter was evaluated across five well-known
commercial image generation models such as Stable
Diffusion, Midjourney, and InstructPix2Pix. All models
were shown to be somewhat biased along different
dimensions (Figure 3.5.6). Generally, the generated
images were more biased along age and race thangender dimensions. Overall, on automatic bias
Figure 3.5.5

Average image model bias scores for ve widely used commercial image generation models

Source: Wang et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Age

Race

Gender0.97

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The experiments indicate that the models’ responses

Research from Anthropic suggests that large language

closely align with those from individuals in Westernmodels do not equally represent global opinions

countries (Figure 3.5.8). The authors point out aon a variety of topics such as politics, religion,

notable lack of diversity in opinion representation,and technology. In this study, researchers built a

especially from non-Western nations among the

GlobalOpinionQA dataset to capture cross-country

shared responses. While it is challenging for models

opinions on various issues (Figure 3.5.7). They thento precisely match the highly diverse distributions

generated a similarity metric to compare people’sof global opinions—given the inherent variation inanswers in various countries with those outputted

perspectives—it is still valuable to understand which

by LLMs. Using a four-point Likert scale, LLMs were

opinions a model is likely to share. Recognizing

asked to rate their agreement with statements from thethe biases inherent in models can highlight their

World Values Survey (WVS) and Pew Research Center’s

limitations and facilitate adjustments that improve

Global Attitudes (GAS) surveys, including questions

regional applicability.

like, “When jobs are scarce, employers should givepriority to people of this country over immigrants,” or“On the whole, men make better business executives
than women do.”GlobalOpinionQA Dataset
Source: Durmus et al., 2023

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0.51–0.54
0.55–0.58
0.59–0.62
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Research from the University of Oxford highlights

Context window
Source: AI Index, 2024

how inequality in AI originates at the tokenization
stage. Tokenization, the process of breaking down

I took my dog to the park to play

“fetch”

I took my dog to the park to play

“fetch”

I took my dog to the park to play“baseball”

text into smaller units for processing and analysis,
exhibits significant variability across languages.
The number of tokens used for the same sentence
can vary up to 15 times between languages. For
instance, Portuguese closely matches English in theefficiency of the GPT-4 tokenizer, yet it still requires

Context window

approximately 50% more tokens to convey thesame content. The Shan language is the furthestfrom English, needing 15 times more tokens. Figure

Larger context windows are more likely to include
important information (e.g. the word “dog”) which can

3.5.9 visualizes the concept of a context window

help the model to make a better prediction (“fetch” vswhile figure 3.5.10 illustrates the token consumption“baseball”). If more tokens are used up to representof the same sentence across different languages.

the same sentence in non-English languages, lessinformation is being captured in the limited context

The authors identify three major inequalities thatwindow, which may result in worse performance.

result from variable tokenization. First, users of

Figure 3.5.9

languages that require more tokens than English
for the same content face up to four times higher

Variable language tokenization

inference costs and longer processing times, as

Source: AI Index, 2024

both are dependent on the number of tokens.
Figure 3.5.11 illustrates the variation in token

ENGLISH

length and execution time for the same sentence

I took my dog to the park to play

across different languages or language families.
Second, these users may also experience increased
processing times because models take longer

I

took

my

dog

to

the

park

7 tokens

to process a greater number of tokens. Lastly,
given that models operate within a fixed context
window—a limit on the amount of text or content

VIETNAMESE

that can be input—languages that require more

Tôi đưa con chó cưa tôi đên công viêntokens proportionally use up more of this window.
This can reduce the available context for the model,
potentially diminishing the quality of service forTôi đưa con chó cưa tôi đên công viên16 tokens

those users.
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Asturian
BulgarianBurmeseCatalanCentral Kanuri (Arabic script)
Central Kurdish
Chinese (Simpli ed)
Chinese (Traditional)
DanishEnglishFon
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Haitian CreoleIndonesian
ItalianJapanese
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In 2024, around 4 billion people across the globe will vote in national elections, for example, in the United States, U.K.,
Indonesia, Mexico, and Taiwan. Upcoming elections coupled with greater public awareness of AI have led to discussionsof AI’s possible impact on elections. This section covers how AI can impact elections and more specifically examines thegeneration and dissemination of mis- and disinformation, the detection of AI-generated content, the potential politicalbias of LLMs, and the broader impact of AI on politics.

3.6 AI and Elections
Generation, Dissemination, andDetection of Disinformation

significantly easier to generate such disinformation.
Moreover, deepfake tools have significantly

Generating Disinformation

improved since the 2020 U.S. elections. Large-scale

One of the top concerns when discussing AI’s

disinformation can undermine trust in democratic

impact on political processes is the generation of

institutions, manipulate public opinion, and polarize

disinformation. While disinformation has been

public discussions. Figure 3.6.1 highlights the different

around since at least the Roman Empire, AI makes it

types of deepfakes that can be created.

20

Potential uses of deepfakes
Source: Masood et al., 2023

Deepfakes(Generation/Detection)
Audio

VisualFace Swap

PuppetMastery

Lip-syncing

Entire Face
Synthesis

Facial Attribute
Manipulation

Text-to-Speech
Synthesis

Voice
Conversion

Figure 3.6.1

20 This section uses the terms synthetic content, disinformation, and deepfakes in the following senses: Synthetic content is any content (text, image, audio, video) that has been created with
AI. Disinformation is false or misleading information generated with the explicit intention to deceive or manipulate an audience. Deepfakes are AI-generated image, video, or audio files thatcan often create convincingly realistic yet deceptive content.

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Slovakia’s 2023 election illustrates how AI-based
disinformation can be used in a political context.

Progressive Slovakia leader Michal Šimečka
Source: Meaker, 2023

Shortly before the election, a contentious audio clip
emerged on Facebook purportedly capturing MichalŠimečka, the leader of the Progressive Slovakia party(Figure 3.6.2), and journalist Monika Tódová fromthe newspaper Denník N, discussing illicit election
strategies, including acquiring voters from theRoma community. The authenticity of the audio wasimmediately challenged by Šimečka and Denník N.
An independent fact-checking team suggested that
AI manipulation was likely at play. Because the clip
was released during a pre-election quiet period, when

Figure 3.6.2

media and politicians’ commentary is restricted, theclip’s dissemination was not easily contested. The
clip’s wide circulation was also aided by a significant
gap in Meta’s content policy, which does not apply
to audio manipulations. This episode of AI-enableddisinformation occurred against the backdrop of aclose electoral contest. Ultimately, the affected party,
Progressive Slovakia, lost by a slim margin to SMER,
one of the opposition parties.

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Dissemination of Fake Content

and automatically decide which content it should

Sometimes concerns surrounding AI-generated

target with counter-articles. Next, another AI model

disinformation are minimized on the grounds thatis tasked with writing a convincing counter-article

AI only assists with content generation but notthat can include images and audio summaries. Thisdissemination. However, in 2023, case studies emerged

counter-article is subsequently attributed to a fakeabout how AI could be used to automate the entire

journalist and posted on the CounterCloud website.

generation and dissemination pipeline. A developer

Subsequently, another AI system generates comments

called Nea Paw set up Countercloud as an experimenton the counter-article, creating the appearance ofin creating a fully automated disinformation pipeline

organic engagement. Finally, an AI searches X for(Figure 3.6.3).

relevant tweets, posts the counter-article as a reply,
and comments as a user on these tweets. The entire

As part of the first step in the pipeline, an AI model issetup for this authentic-appearing misinformation

used to continuously scrape the internet for articles

system only costs around $400.

AI-based generation and dissemination pipeline
Source: AI Index, 202421

2. AI creates counter-article

1. AI selects content to counter
HEADLINE

HEADLINE

3.

AI searches Twitter* forrelevant accounts and tweets

for selected content
HEADLINE

HEADLINE

user bioAI

AI constantly scrapesinternet for content

AI

4. AI shares counter
article to Twitter

COUNTER-HEADLINE

gatekeeper chooses
content to counterfakejournalist
profilesoundclip

comments

imagesAI posts links tothe article

along withposts thatlook like usercommentaryAI
http://

fake users

AI inputs a selected article
and generates a detailed
counter-article, which ispasted to Countercloud

COUNTERARTICLE*Twitter at time of publication, now X

Figure 3.6.3
21 The figure was adapted from Simon, Altay, and Mercier, 2023.

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introduced deepfake detection methods suffer

Recent research efforts to counter deepfakes havesignificant performance declines on never-before-seen

focused on improving methods for detecting AIgenerated content. For example, a team of Singaporean
researchers studied how well deepfake detectors
generalize to datasets they have not been trained on.
The researchers compared five deepfake detection
approaches and found that even more recently

datasets (Figure 3.6.4). However, the study does notethat there are underlying similarities between seen andunseen datasets, meaning that in the future, robust andbroadly generalizable deepfake detectors could becreated.

Generalizability of deepfake detectors to unseen datasets
Source: Li et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Original accuracy
100%

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93.60%
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In the context of deepfake detectors, it is alsobalanced with respect to race and gender (Figure

important to highlight earlier experiments that show

3.6.5). The authors then demonstrate that between

that the performance of deepfake detection methods

various racial subgroups, performance accuracy

varies significantly across attributes such as race.

could differ by as much as 10.7 percentage points.

Some of the underlying datasets used to train deepfake

The detectors performed worst on dark skin and best

detectors, like FaceForensics++, are not equally

on Caucasian faces.

Ethnic and gender distribution in FaceForensics++ training data
Source: Trinh and Liu, 2021 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

36.00%

Percentage of ethnic and gender subgroups

35%

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LLMs and Political Bias

which political allegiance most closely corresponds to
the regular ChatGPT.

LLMs are increasingly recognized as tools throughwhich ordinary individuals can inform themselves about
important political topics such as political processes,
candidates, or parties. However, new research
published in 2023 suggests that many major LLMs like

Figure 3.6.6 shows strong positive correlations (bluelines) between the default ChatGPT, i.e., one that was
answering questions without additional instructions,

ChatGPT are not necessarily free of bias.

and both the Democrat and the radical Democrat

The study revealed that ChatGPT exhibits a notable andasked to answer like a Democrat or radical Democrat.

systematic bias favoring Democrats in the United States

On the other hand, the researchers found a strong

and the Labour Party in the U.K. As part of the study,

negative correlation between the default GPT andthe researchers compared the answers of a default

both Republican ChatGPTs. The identification of bias

ChatGPT to those of Republican, Democrat, radicalin these LLMs raises concerns about their potential to

Republican, and radical Democrat versions of ChatGPT.

influence the political views and stances of users who

This research design was created to better identify

engage with these tools.

ChatGPT versions, i.e., versions of ChatGPT that were

Default vs. political ChatGPT average agreement
Source: Motoki et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Democrat ChatGPT

Republican ChatGPT

Radical Democrat ChatGPT

3

Radical Republican ChatGPT

3

ρ = 0.93

2

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Default ChatGPTρ = 0.96

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Processes

Research published in 2023 suggests that humans
generally have issues reliably detecting audio
deepfakes. In their sample of 529 individuals,

There has been an increasing volume of research aimed

listeners only correctly detected deepfakes 73% ofat exploring some of the risks AI could pose to political

the time. Figure 3.6.7 illustrates some of the otherprocesses. One topic of interest has been audio

key findings from the study. The authors also expect

deepfakes. In July 2023, audio clips of a politician fromdetection accuracy to go down in the future as a

India’s Hindu party were released in which the politician

result of improvements in audio generation methods.

attacked his own party and praised his political

The rise of more convincing audio deepfakes

opponent. The politician claimed these audio clips wereincreases the potential to manipulate politicalcreated using AI. However, even after deepfake experts

campaigns, defame opponents, and give politicians

were consulted, it could not be determined with 100%a “liar’s dividend,” the ability to dismiss damaging

certainty whether the clips were authentic or not.

audio clips as fabrications.

Key research findings on audio deepfakes
Source: Mai et al., 2023; AI Index, 2024

Hello
你好

Reference audio improves
deepfake detection

Listening to clips more frequently
does not aid detection

Training humans to detect
deepfakes only helps slightly

Spending more time does not
improve detection

English and Mandarin deepfakes
are equally difficult to identify

Participants do not improve detection
without explicit feedback

Shorter deepfakes are noteasier to identify

Human crowd and top automateddetectors have comparable
performance

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AI can also influence political processes in other ways.

the degree to which each AI political use case is

Research from Queen’s University Belfast notes othertechnologically ready, the risk level it possesses,

ways in which AI can affect political processes, andand how visible the deployment of AI would be topotential mitigations associated with different risk

users (Figure 3.6.9). For example, they propose thatcases (Figure 3.6.8). For instance, AI could be utilized

employing AI for voter authentication is already highlyfor video surveillance of voters, potentially undermining

feasible, and this application carries a significant risk.

the integrity of elections. The same authors identify

AI usage, risks, and mitigation strategies in electoral processes
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AvenueAI usage

Risks

Mitigations

Voter list maintenanceHeuristic-driven approximations
Record linkage
Outlier detection

Access-integrity trade-o� issues
Biased AI
Overly generalized AI

Access-focused AI
Reasonable explanations
Local scrutiny

Polling booth locations

Drop box location determination
Facility location
Clustering

Business ethos
Volatility and �nding costs
Partisan manipulation

Plural results
Auditing AI
Disadvantaged voters

Predicting problem booths

Predictive policing
Time series motifs

Systemic racism
Aggravating brutality
Feedback loops

Transparency
Statistical rigor
Fair AI

Voter authentication

Face recognition
Biometrics

Race/gender bias
Unknown biases
Voter turnout
Surveillance and misc.

Alternatives
Bias audits
Designing for edge cases

Video monitoring

Video-based vote counting
Event detection
Person re-identi�cation

Electoral integrity
Marginalized communities
Undermining other monitoring

Shallow monitoring
Open data

Assessments of AI integration and risks in electoral
processes

Figure 3.6.8

Source: P et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Voter list maintenance

HIGH

MEDIUM

LOW

Polling booth locations

MEDIUM

MEDIUM

VERY LOW

HIGH

HIGH

VERY LOW

Voter authentication

VERY HIGH

HIGH

VERY HIGH

Video monitoring

VERY HIGH

VERY HIGH

HIGH

Technology
readiness

Risk level

Visibility of AI
usage to voters

Predicting problem booths

Figure 3.6.9

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Industry Adoption

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4.1 What’s New in 2023: A Timeline

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Adoption of AI Capabilities

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Adoption of Generative AI Capabilities

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Use of AI by Developers

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4.2 Jobs

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Preference269

AI Labor Demand

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Workflow

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Global AI Labor Demand223

AI’s Labor Impact

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U.S. AI Labor Demand by Skill Cluster
and Specialized Skill

Earnings Calls

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Aggregate Trends

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U.S. AI Labor Demand by Sector

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Specific Themes

278

U.S. AI Labor Demand by State

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AI Hiring232

AI Skill Penetration

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AI Talent

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Highlight: How Much Do
Computer Scientists Earn?

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Highlight: Projecting AI’s Economic Impact

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4.5 Robot Installations

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Aggregate Trends

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Industrial Robots:
Traditional vs. Collaborative Robots
By Geographic Area

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286

4.3 Investment242

Corporate Investment

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Sectors and Application Types

292

Startup Activity

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China vs. United States

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Global Trends

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Regional Comparison by Funding Amount

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The integration of AI into the economy raises many compelling questions. Some predictthat AI will drive productivity improvements, but the extent of its impact remains uncertain.
A major concern is the potential for massive labor displacement—to what degree will jobs
be automated versus augmented by AI? Companies are already utilizing AI in various ways
across industries, but some regions of the world are witnessing greater investment inflows
into this transformative technology. Moreover, investor interest appears to be gravitating
toward specific AI subfields like natural language processing and data management.
This chapter examines AI-related economic trends using data from Lightcast, LinkedIn,
Quid, McKinsey, Stack Overflow, and the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). It
begins by analyzing AI-related occupations, covering labor demand, hiring trends, skill
penetration, and talent availability. The chapter then explores corporate investment in
AI, introducing a new section focused specifically on generative AI. It further examines
corporate adoption of AI, assessing current usage and how developers adopt thesetechnologies. Finally, it assesses AI’s current and projected economic impact and robot
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1. Generative AI investment skyrockets. Despite a decline in overall AI private investment last year,
funding for generative AI surged, nearly octupling from 2022 to reach $25.2 billion. Major players in the generative
AI space, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, and Inflection, reported substantial fundraising rounds.

2. Already a leader, the United States pulls even further ahead in AI private investment.
In 2023, the United States saw AI investments reach $67.2 billion, nearly 8.7 times more than China, the next
highest investor. While private AI investment in China and the European Union, including the United Kingdom,
declined by 44.2% and 14.1%, respectively, since 2022, the United States experienced a notable increase of 22.1%
in the same time frame.

3. Fewer AI jobs, in the United States and across the globe. In 2022, AI-related positions madeup 2.0% of all job postings in America, a figure that decreased to 1.6% in 2023. This decline in AI job listings is
attributed to fewer postings from leading AI firms and a reduced proportion of tech roles within these companies.

4. AI decreases costs and increases revenues. A new McKinsey survey reveals that 42% of surveyedorganizations report cost reductions from implementing AI (including generative AI), and 59% report revenue
increases. Compared to the previous year, there was a 10 percentage point increase in respondents reporting
decreased costs, suggesting AI is driving significant business efficiency gains.

5. Total AI private investment declines again, while the number of newly funded AI
companies increases. Global private AI investment has fallen for the second year in a row, though less than
the sharp decrease from 2021 to 2022. The count of newly funded AI companies spiked to 1,812, up 40.6% fromthe previous year.

6. AI organizational adoption ticks up. A 2023 McKinsey report reveals that 55% of organizations now
use AI (including generative AI) in at least one business unit or function, up from 50% in 2022 and 20% in 2017.

7. China dominates industrial robotics. Since surpassing Japan in 2013 as the leading installer ofindustrial robots, China has significantly widened the gap with the nearest competitor nation. In 2013, China’s
installations accounted for 20.8% of the global total, a share that rose to 52.4% by 2022.

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8. Greater diversity in robotic installations. In 2017, collaborative robots represented a mere 2.8% of all
new industrial robot installations, a figure that climbed to 9.9% by 2022. Similarly, 2022 saw a rise in service robot
installations across all application categories, except for medical robotics. This trend indicates not just an overall
increase in robot installations but also a growing emphasis on deploying robots for human-facing roles.

9. The data is in: AI makes workers more productive and leads to higher quality work.
In 2023, several studies assessed AI’s impact on labor, suggesting that AI enables workers to complete tasks
more quickly and to improve the quality of their output. These studies also demonstrated AI’s potential to bridge
the skill gap between low- and high-skilled workers. Still other studies caution that using AI without proper
oversight can lead to diminished performance.

10. Fortune 500 companies start talking a lot about AI, especially generative AI.
In 2023, AI was mentioned in 394 earnings calls (nearly 80% of all Fortune 500 companies), a notable increase
from 266 mentions in 2022. Since 2018, mentions of AI in Fortune 500 earnings calls have nearly doubled. The
most frequently cited theme, appearing in 19.7% of all earnings calls, was generative AI.

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The chapter begins with an overview of some of the most significant AI-related economic events in 2023, as selectedby the AI Index Steering Committee.

4.1 What’s New in 2023: A Timeline
Jan. 10,2023

InstaDeep acquired by BioNTech
BioNTech, known for developing the first mRNA COVID-19
vaccine in partnership with Pfizer, acquires InstaDeep for $680
million to advance AI-powered drug discovery, design, anddevelopment. InstaDeep specializes in creating AI systems forenterprises in biology, logistics, and energy sectors.

Jan. 23,
2023

Source: Reuters, 2022
Figure 4.1.1

Microsoft invests $10 billion in ChatGPT maker OpenAI
With this deal, Microsoft Azure remains the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI, which relies
on Azure to train its models. This follows Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment in 2019 and asubsequent investment in 2021.
Source: Microsoft, 2023
Figure 4.1.2

Feb. 14,2023

GitHub Copilot for Business becomes publicly available
Copilot for Business leverages an OpenAI Codex model toenhance code suggestion quality. At launch, GitHub Copilot
contributed to an average of 46% of developers’ code acrossvarious programming languages, with this figure rising to 61%
Source: GitHub, 2023
Figure 4.1.3

for Java.

March 7,2023

Salesforce introduces Einstein GPT
Einstein GPT, the first comprehensive AI for CRM, utilizes
OpenAI’s models. Einstein GPT aids Salesforce customers insales, marketing, and customer management.
Source: Salesforce, 2023
Figure 4.1.4

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Microsoft announces integration of
GPT-4 into Office 365
Microsoft rolls out Copilot across Office365, offering AI assistance in Word,
PowerPoint, and Excel.

March 30,
2023

Source: Microsoft, 2023
Figure 4.1.5

Bloomberg announces LLM for financeBloomberg’s 50-billion parameter LLM is custom-built
for analyzing financial data and tailored to financeprofessionals. This model is capable of performing financial
analyses on Bloomberg’s extensive datasets.
Source: Bloomberg, 2023
Figure 4.1.6

May 23,
2023

Adobe launches generative AI tools inside
Photoshop
Adobe introduces generative AI features in
Photoshop via Adobe Firefly, its generative
image tool. Users can now add, remove, and edit
images within seconds using text prompts.

June 8,2023

Source:TechCrunch, 2023
Figure 4.1.7

Cohere raises $270 million
Cohere, focused on developing an AI model ecosystem forenterprises, raises $270 million in an oversubscribed Series
C round. Inovia Capital led the round, with participation from
Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures, Schroders Capital, andIndex Ventures.

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June 13,2023

Nvidia reaches $1 trillion valuation
Nvidia’s market capitalization consistently exceeds $1 trillion
USD, driven by rising demand for its AI-powering chips.
Nvidia becomes the fifth company to reach a valuation of $1
trillion, joining the ranks of Apple Inc. (AAPL.O), Alphabet
Inc. (GOOGL.O), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), and Amazon.
com Inc. (AMZN.O).

June 26,
2023

Source: The Brand Hopper, 2023
Figure 4.1.9

Databricks buys MosaicML for $1.3 billion
Databricks, a leader in data storage and management,
announces its acquisition of MosaicML, a generative AI
orchestration startup founded in 2021, for $1.3 billion. This
move aims to enhance Databricks’ generative AI capabilities.
Source: Databricks, 2023
Figure 4.1.10

June 29,
2023

Thomson Reuters acquires Casetext for $650 million
Thomson Reuters finalizes its acquisition of Casetext, a legal startup renowned for its artificial
intelligence–powered assistant for law, for a staggering $650 million. At the time of acquisition,
Casetext boasted a substantial customer base of over 10,000 law firms and corporate legal
departments. Among its flagship offerings is CoCounsel, an AI legal assistant driven by GPT4, which enables rapid document review, legal research memos, deposition preparation, andcontract analysis within minutes.
Source:Legal.io, 2023
Figure 4.1.11

June 30,
2023

Inflection AI raises $1.3 billion from Bill Gates andNvidia, among others
Inflection AI raises $1.3 billion through a combination of cash
and cloud credits, bringing the company’s valuation to over $4
billion. Founded by Mustafa Suleyman of Google DeepMind
and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Inflection AI is developing a“kind and supportive” chatbot named Pi. The funding roundattracts investments from Microsoft, Nvidia, Reid Hoffman,

Source: TechCrunch, 2023
Figure 4.1.12

Bill Gates, and Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google.
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Hugging Face raises $235 million from investors
Hugging Face, a platform and community dedicated to machinelearning and data science, secures an impressive $235 million
funding round, pushing its valuation to $4.5 billion. The platform
serves as a one-stop destination for building, deploying, andtraining machine learning models. Offering a GitHub-like hub
for AI code repositories, models, and datasets, Hugging Face
has attracted significant attention from industry giants.

Sep. 26,
2023

Source: TechCrunch, 2023
Figure 4.1.13

SAP introduces new generative AI assistant Joule
Joule is a ChatGPT-style digital assistant integrated
across SAP’s diverse product range. Joule will seamlessly
integrate into SAP applications spanning HR, finance,
supply chain, procurement, and customer experience.
Additionally, it will be incorporated into the SAP BusinessTechnology Platform, extending its utility across SAP’s

Source: SAP, 2023
Figure 4.1.14

extensive user base of nearly 300 million.

Oct. 27,2023

Amazon and Google make multibillion-dollar
investments in Anthropic
Amazon announces its intent to invest up to $4
billion in Anthropic, a rival of OpenAI. This significant
investment follows Google’s agreement to invest up
to $2 billion in Anthropic. The deal comprises an initial$500 million upfront, with an additional $1.5 billion to
be invested over time.

Nov. 5,2023

Source: TechCrunch, 2023
Figure 4.1.15

Kai-Fu Lee launches OpenSource LLM
Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup publicly unveils an open-source
model and secures funding at a $1 billion valuation, with
Alibaba leading the investment. Lee, known for his leadershiproles at Google in China and for establishing Microsoft
Research China, one of Microsoft’s key international researchhubs, spearheads this initiative.

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Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, fired and then rehired
OpenAI’s board claims Altman was “not consistently
candid in his communications.” Chaos ensues at OpenAI.
Many employees resign in response to the news, and 745
sign a letter threatening resignation if the current board
members do not resign. A few days later, Altman
is reinstated.

Dec. 11,2023

Source: CoinGape, 2024
Figure 4.1.17

Mistral AI closes $415 million funding roundLess than six months after raising a $112 million seedround, Europe-based Mistral AI secures an additional$415 million. The startup, cofounded by alumni from
Google’s DeepMind and Meta, focuses on developing
foundation models with an open-source technology
approach, aiming to compete with OpenAI. Leading
the round is Andreessen Horowitz, with participation

Source: TechCrunch, 2023
Figure 4.1.18

from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce, BNP
Paribas, General Catalyst, and Elad Gil.

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AI Labor DemandThis section analyzes the demand for AI-related skills
in labor markets, drawing on data from Lightcast.
Lightcast has analyzed hundreds of millions of job
postings from over 51,000 websites since 2010,
identifying those that require AI skills.

requiring AI skills, in many, the number of AI-related
job postings over the past five years has increased.1
Lightcast speculates that the 2023 decrease in AI job
postings is driven by many top AI employers (suchas Amazon, Deloitte, Capital One, Randstad, andGlobal AI Labor Demand

Elevance Health) scaling back their overall posting

Figure 4.2.1 shows the percentage of job postings

counts. Additionally, many companies shifted thedemanding AI skills. In 2023, the United States (1.6%),

occupational mix of their postings. For example,

Spain (1.4%), and Sweden (1.3%) led in this metric.

Amazon, in 2023, posted a higher share of operational

In 2022, AI-related jobs accounted for 2.0% of allroles like sales delivery driver, packager, and postal

American job postings. In 2023, that number dropped

service/mail room worker than in 2022. At the same

to 1.6%. Although most countries saw a decreasetime, there was a lower share of demand for tech roles

from 2022 to 2023 in the share of job postings

like software developers and data scientists.

AI job postings (% of all job postings) by geographic area, 2014–23
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

AI job postings (% of all job postings)

2.00%

1.62%, United States
1.35%, Spain
1.31%, Sweden
1.20%, Belgium
1.12%, Netherlands
1.07%, France
1.05%, Canada
1.04%, Switzerland
1.00%, Australia
0.89%, Austria
0.85%, United Kingdom
0.81%, Germany
0.76%, Italy

1.50%

1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

0.50%, New Zealand

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

Figure 4.2.1

1 In 2023, Lightcast slightly changed its methodology for determining AI-related job postings from what was used in previous versions of the AI Index report. Lightcast also updated its
taxonomy of AI-related skills. As such, some of the numbers in this chart do not completely align with those featured in last year’s report.

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U.S. AI Labor Demand by Skill Cluster andSpecialized Skillat 0.2%. Despite a recent dip, machine learning

Figure 4.2.2 highlights the most sought-after AI

continues to be the most in-demand skill. Since last

skills in the U.S. labor market since 2010. Leading theyear, every AI-related skill cluster tracked by Lightcast

demand was machine learning at 0.7%, with artificial

had a decrease in market share, with the exception of

intelligence at 0.5%, and natural language processing

generative AI, which grew by more than a factor of 10.

AI job postings (% of all job postings) in the United States by skill cluster, 2010–23
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

AI job postings (% of all job postings)

1.00%

0.80%
0.68%, Machine learning
0.60%

0.46%, Arti cial intelligence
0.40%

0.15%, Natural language processing
0.14%, Autonomous driving
0.10%, Neural networks
0.07%, Visual image recognition
0.05%, Robotics
0.05%, Generative AI

0.20%

0.00%

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023
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Figure 4.2.3 compares the top 10 specialized skills sought in AI job postings in 2023 versus those from 2011 to
2013.2 On an absolute scale, the demand for nearly every specialized skill has increased over the past decade, withPython’s notable increase in popularity highlighting its ascendance as a preferred AI programming language.

Top 10 specialized skills in 2023 AI job postings in the United States, 2011–13 vs. 2023

Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

152,201

Python (programming language)

13,503133,066

Computer science

43,74893,541

SQL (programming language)25,19491,883

Data analysis

20,77085,480

Data science

3,892
73,069Agile methodology

8,602
68,459Amazon web services

1,712
67,772

Automation

12,32764,557

Software engineering

18,7042023
62,180

Project management

2011–1325,953050,000100,000

150,000
200,000
Number of AI job postings

250,000

300,000
Figure 4.2.3

2 The decision to select 2011–2013 as the point of comparison was because some data at the jobs/skills level from earlier years is quite sparse. Lightcast therefore used 2011–2013 to have alarger sample size for a benchmark from 10 years ago with which to compare. Figure 4.2.3 juxtaposes the total number of job postings requiring certain skills from 2011 to 2013 with the total
amount in 2023.

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In 2023, Lightcast saw great increases in the number of U.S. job postings citing generative AI skills. That year,
15,410 job postings specifically cited generative AI as a desired skill, large language modeling was mentioned in
4,669 postings, and ChatGPT appeared in 2,841 job listings (Figure 4.2.4).

Generative AI skills in AI job postings in the United States, 2023
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Generative arti cial intelligence

15,410Large language modeling

4,669

ChatGPT

2,841

Prompt engineering

1,299

Generative adversarial networks

1,102

Variational autoencoders

372
0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000
10,000
Number of AI job postings

12,00014,00016,000Figure 4.2.4

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Figure 4.2.5 illustrates what proportion of all generative AI job postings released in 2023 referenced particular
generative AI skills. The most cited skill was generative AI (60.0%), followed by large language modeling (18.2%)
and ChatGPT (11.1%).

Share of generative AI skills in AI job postings in the United States, 2023
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Generative arti cial intelligence

59.98%

Large language modeling18.17%

ChatGPT

11.06%

Prompt engineering

5.06%

Generative adversarial networks

4.29%

Variational autoencoders

1.45%

0%

10%

20%

30%
40%
Skill share in AI job postings (%)

50%

60%
Figure 4.2.5

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and educational services. The leading sectors were

Figure 4.2.6 shows the percentage of U.S. job

information (4.6%); professional, scientific, andpostings requiring AI skills by industry sector fromtechnical services (3.3%); and finance and insurance

2022 to 2023. Nearly every sector experienced a(2.9%). As noted earlier, the decrease in AI job postings

decrease in the proportion of AI job postings in 2023

was related to changes in the hiring patterns of several

compared to 2022, except for public administration

major U.S. employers.

AI job postings (% of all job postings) in the United States by sector, 2022 vs. 2023
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

4.63% (-3.67%)
4.81%

Information
3.33% (-9.52%)
3.67%
2.94% (-11.71%)
3.33%
2.48% (-18.81%)
3.06%

Professional, scienti c, and technical services
Finance and insurance
Manufacturing
Public administration
Educational services
Management of companies and enterprises
Utilities
Agriculture, forestry, shing and hunting
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
Wholesale trade
Real estate and rental and leasing
Transportation and warehousing
Retail trade
Waste management and administrative support services0%

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1.49% (+88.81%)

1.41% (+5.98%)
1.33%
1.33% (-21.15%)
1.69%
1.19% (-1.53%)
1.21%
0.85% (-44.98%)
1.54%
0.82% (-33.26%)
1.23%
0.70% (-20.52%)
0.89%
0.55% (-25.92%)
0.74%
0.48% (-25.92%)
0.65%
0.48% (-54.68%)
1.06%
0.40% (-22.71%)
0.51%

1%

2%
3%
4%
AI job postings (% of all job postings)

2023
2022

5%
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U.S. AI Labor Demand by State
Figure 4.2.7 highlights the numberof AI job postings in the UnitedStates by state. The top three states

Number of AI job postings in the United States by state, 2023
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

AK

ME

1,309

2,125

VT

were California (70,630), followed
by Texas (36,413) and VirginiaWA

14,725(24,417).

OR

CA

MT

ND

892

1,293

SD

1,351

5,478

3,357

ID

WY
729

2,288

NE

NV

UT

CO

KS

AZ

NM

70,630 3,404 3,679 10,292 5,431

OK

9,022 2,952

4,125

TX

LA

36,413 2,924

NH

MA

1,003

2,077 23,017

NY

CT

OH

PA

NJ

DC

MD

DE

MN

WI

MI

IA

IL

IN

KY

WV
533

6,861 16,312 2,462

TN

VA

NC

AL

GA

SC

5,824 5,055 13,734

24,397 5,415

RI

2,992

3,531 20,178 5,267 10,409 13,294 14,705

MO

7,390

AR

3,783

MS

1,736

HI

2,315

5,318 24,417 12,976
6,214 14,325 3,305

FL

2,283

17,678Figure 4.2.7

Figure 4.2.8 demonstrates whatpercentage of a state’s total job
postings were AI-related. The top
states according to this metric werePercentage of US states job postings in AI, 2023
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

AK
1.06%

ME
1.55%
NH MA
VT
1.14% 0.87% 1.88%

the District of Columbia (2.7%),
followed by Delaware (2.4%) andMI
WA MT NDSD MN WI
1.65% 0.75% 1.03% 1.01% 0.80% 0.69% 1.20%

Maryland (2.1%).

CT
NY
RI
1.43% 1.09% 1.74%

ID
IA
IL
IN
OH
NJ
OR
WY NE
PA
0.91% 1.43% 0.95% 0.81% 0.75% 1.26% 0.62% 0.75% 1.06% 1.63%
CA
NV
CO
KS MO KYDEUT
WV DC MD
1.60% 0.79% 0.94% 1.03% 1.19% 0.92% 0.52% 0.46% 2.66% 2.10% 2.38%
AZ NM OK
AR
NC
TN
VA
0.94% 1.14% 0.89% 1.34% 0.64% 2.09% 0.98%
TX
LA
MS
AL
GA
SC
1.11% 0.59% 0.79% 1.05% 1.14% 0.58%
HI
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Percentage of US AI job postings by state, 2023

Figure 4.2.9 examines which U.S.

Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportstates accounted for the largest
proportion of AI job postings

AK
0.28%

nationwide. California was first: In

ME
0.46%
NH MA
VT
0.22% 0.45% 4.99%

2023, 15.3% of all AI job postings
in the United States were for jobs

SD MN WIMIWA MT ND
3.19% 0.19% 0.28% 0.29% 1.26% 1.10% 2.98%

based in California, followed by

NY
CT
RI
5.29% 1.17% 0.65%

ID
IA
IL
IN
OR
WY NE
OH
PA
NJ
1.19% 0.73% 0.16% 0.50% 0.77% 4.37% 1.14% 2.26% 2.88% 3.19%

Texas (7.9%) and Virginia (5.3%).

CA
NV
CO
KS MO KYUTWV DC MD DE
15.31% 0.74% 0.80% 2.23% 1.18% 1.60% 0.50% 0.12% 1.49% 3.54% 0.53%
AZ NM OK
AR
TN
NC
VA
1.96% 0.64% 0.89% 0.82% 1.15% 5.29% 2.81%
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
SC
7.89% 0.63% 0.38% 1.35% 3.11% 0.72%
HI
0.49%

FL
3.83%
Figure 4.2.9

Figure 4.2.10 illustrates the trends in the four states with highest AI job postings: Washington, California, New York,and Texas. Each experienced a notable decline in the share of total AI-related job postings from 2022 to 2023.

Percentage of US states’ job postings in AI by select US state, 2010–23
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Percentage of U.S. states’ job postings in AI

2.50%

2.00%

1.65%, Washington
1.60%, California

1.50%

1.43%, New York

1.11%, Texas
1.00%

0.50%

0.00%

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

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Figure 4.2.11 shows how AI-related job postings have been distributed across the top four states over time. Since
2019, California’s proportion of AI job postings has steadily declined, while Texas has seen a slight increase.

Percentage of US AI job postings by select US state, 2010–23
Source: Lightcast, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Percentage of United States AI job postings

25%

20%

15.31%, California

15%

10%
7.89%, Texas
5.29%, New York

5%

3.19%, Washington

0%

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

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added a new employer in the same period the job began,

The hiring data presented in the AI Index is based ona LinkedIn dataset of skills and jobs that appear on
their platform. The geographic areas included in thesample make at least 10 AI hires each month and have
LinkedIn covering a substantial portion of the labor
force. LinkedIn’s coverage of India’s and South Korea’s
sizable labor forces fall below this threshold, so insights
drawn about these countries should be interpreted withparticular caution.

divided by the total number of LinkedIn members in
the corresponding location. Conversely, the relative AI
talent hiring rate is the year-over-year change in AI hiring
relative to overall hiring rate in the same geographic
area.3 Therefore, figure 4.2.12 illustrates which specificregions have experienced the most significant rise in AI
talent recruitment compared to the overall hiring rate,serving as an indicator of AI hiring vibrancy. In 2023, theregions with the greatest relative AI hiring rates year overyear were Hong Kong (28.8%), followed by Singapore

Figure 4.2.12 reports the relative AI hiring rate year-over-(18.9%) and Luxembourg (18.9%). This means, foryear ratio by geographic area. The overall hiring rate is

example, that in 2023 in Hong Kong, the ratio of AI

computed as the percentage of LinkedIn members whotalent hiring relative to overall hiring grew 28.8%.

Relative AI hiring rate year-over-year ratio by geographic area, 2023
Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Hong Kong

28.83%

Singapore

18.93%

Luxembourg

18.85%

India

16.83%

Portugal

14.84%

United Arab Emirates

13.40%

Denmark

13.23%

Norway13.08%

Belgium

10.41%

Spain

9.63%

United Kingdom

8.57%

Sweden7.37%

Finland

7.27%

South Africa

7.17%

Chile

6.65%

0%

5%

10%

15%
20%
Relative AI hiring rate year-over-year ratio

25%

30%
Figure 4.2.124

Figure 4.2.13 showcases the year-over-year ratio of AI hiring by geographic areas over the past five years. Startingfrom the beginning of 2023, countries including Australia, Canada, Singapore, and India have experienced anoticeable uptick in AI hiring.
3 For each month, LinkedIn calculates the AI hiring rate in the geographic area, divides the AI hiring rate by overall hiring rate in that geographic area, calculates the year-over-year change ofthis ratio, and then takes the 12-month moving average using the last 12 months.
4 For brevity, the visualization only includes the top 15 countries for this metric.

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hiringrate
rate
year-over-year
ratio
by geographic
2018–23
Relativeyear-over-year
ratio
by geographic
area,area,
2018–23
Source:LinkedIn,
LinkedIn,2023
2023| Chart:2024
AI Index
reportSource:| Chart:2024
AI Index
reportAustralia
Australia

Belgium
Belgium

100%
100%
50%
50%

50%50%

0%
−50%

−50%

−50% 2019 2021 2023
2019
2021 2023
Chile

0%

−50%

2023

Relative
hiringrate year-over-year
Relative AI
hiringAI
rate
year-over-year
ratio ratio

2021

2019

Israel

2021

−50%

2023

100%

2021

−50%

New Zealand

2019

50%

2021

2019

2021

2021

South Africa−50%

50% 2019

0%

2021

2021

2021

2021

2019

2021

−50%

2021

0%
−50%

2023

0%United Arab Emirates

5.81%

−50%

50%

Switzerland -0.24%

0%

100%

100%

2019

2021

2023

0%

100%

2019

2021

0%
2021
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2019

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2021

2019

2021

2023

2023

France2019
India 2021

0%

2023

18.85%

50%

−50%

2021

50%
0%

2021

2021

2023

2023

100%
5.21%

0%

50%

−50%

2023

2019

5.21%

2021

50%

2023

Singapore
18.93%

100%

0%

50%

2019

2021

2023

18.93%

0%

100%

2021

0%

2023 50%

2019

2021

2023

7.37%

201950%2021

2023

7.37%

United States
0%

−50%

2019

2021

2023

5.68%
UnitedStates

100%
2019

2021

50%

8.57%

2023

Sweden
100%

0%
−50%

2023

2021

−50%

9.63%

0%
2019

-0.48%

2023

Netherlands

50%

−50%

2023

8.57%
United Kingdom
2021

2021

−50%
Netherlands
2019
2021

100%

100%

2019

0%

50%

9.63%

2021

-0.48%

Sweden

100%

−50%

2019

14.84%

United Kingdom
0%

2019

50%

−50%

Spain

−50%

0%

2023 100%

2023

100%
50%
2019

100%

Spain

2019

2023

Singapore

14.84%

2021

2021
Ireland50%

Portugal

2019

2023

2019
Ireland−50%
18.85%
2019 0%2021

2023

Portugal

2019

−50%

−50%

Luxembourg
100%-0.43%

2021

100%

2023

−50% Luxembourg
2019
2021

2019
0%

2019

16.83%

2021-0.43%

0%2023

16.83%

50%
2019

50%

0%
−50%

2023

India

50%

0%

2021

100%

7.27%

0%

0%
−50%

2023

2023

2019

4.44%

50%

50%

13.40%
United Arab Emirates−50%2021
2019

100%

7.27%

50%

5.81%

4.44%

FranceFinland50%

100% −50%

2023

South Korea

100%
50%
2019

2023

2023

100%

0% 100%13.08%

100%

2019

2021

50%

2023

0%

7.17%

100%

South Korea

−50%

2023

2023

13.08%

50%

Switzerland

0%

2019

0%

7.17%

−50%

6.03%

Norway

−50%
100%

100%

−50%

100%
50%

2023

100%
0%

6.15%

2023

0%

50%

2023

Norway−50%50%
2019

South Africa

2019

2021

50%

2023

100%

−50%

2021

6.03%

2019
0%

100%

6.15%

50%

50%

Italy

Italy

−50%

2023

New Zealand

0%

−50%

2019

−50%

2023

0%

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2023

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2021

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100%

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2021

2019

100%

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2019

−50%

2023

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2019

Israel

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2021
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100%

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2021

100%
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2019

0%13.23%

0%−50%

2019 Germany
2021 2023

100%
50%

100%

13.23%

0%

6.65%

0%

−50%
0%

0%

-0.47%

0%

50%

50%

6.65%

100%

50%

100%

50%

50%

−50%

Denmark

100%

50%

2021

50%

50%

Finland

100%

2019

50%

Denmark

100%

−50%

100%

−50%

−50%
2019
2021 2023
2019
2021 2023

Chile
100%

100%

0%
10.41%

6.53% 0% 0%0%CanadaCanada

100% 100%

10.41%

6.53%

BrazilBrazil

100%
100%

2023

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5.68%

0%
−50%

2019

2021

2023

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which they appear in LinkedIn members’ profiles. If,
for instance, four of the skills that engineers possess

Figures 4.2.14 and 4.2.15 highlight relative AI skill

belong to the AI skill group, the penetration of AI skills

penetration. The aim of this indicator is to measure theamong engineers is estimated to be 8% (4/50).

intensity of AI skills in an entity (such as a particularcountry, industry, or gender). The AI skill penetration

For the period from 2015 to 2023, the countries with

rate signals the prevalence of AI skills acrossthe highest AI skill penetration rates were India (2.8),

occupations or the intensity with which LinkedIn

the United States (2.2), and Germany (1.9). In themembers utilize AI skills in their jobs. For example,

United States, therefore, the relative penetration of

the top 50 skills for the occupation of engineer are

AI skills was 2.2 times greater than the global averagecalculated based on the weighted frequency withacross the same set of occupations.

Relative AI skill penetration rate by geographic area, 2015–23
Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

India

2.75

United States

2.22

Germany

1.90

Canada1.67

Israel

1.63

United Kingdom

1.63

Singapore

1.50

France1.48

South Korea

1.35

Spain

1.29

Brazil1.21

Netherlands

1.13

Italy

1.08

Switzerland

1.06

United Arab Emirates
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Figure 4.2.15 disaggregates AI skill penetration rates

the country. For all countries in the sample, the relative

by gender across different countries or regions.

AI skill penetration rate is greater for men than women.

A country’s rate of 1.5 for women means female

India (1.7), the United States (1.2), and Israel (0.9) havemembers in that country are 1.5 times more likely tothe highest reported relative AI skill penetration rates

list AI skills than the average member in all countries

for women.

pooled together across the same set of occupations in

Relative AI skill penetration rate across gender, 2015–23
Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

India
United States

2.21

1.23

Israel0.86

Canada0.85

Germany

1.92
1.70
2.00

0.82

United Kingdom

0.71

Singapore

0.70

France0.67

Netherlands

0.55

Spain

0.55

Italy

0.46

Brazil0.44

United Arab Emirates

0.43

Switzerland

0.39

Australia

0.37

0.00

2.78

1.65

0.50

1.64
1.51
1.46
1.20
1.41
1.10
1.26
0.89

Male

1.14

Female

0.92

1.00

1.50
2.00
Relative AI skill penetration rate

2.50

3.00
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AI talent concentration by geographic area, 2023
Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

IsraelFigures 4.2.16 to 4.2.18 examine AI talent by

Singaporecountry. A LinkedIn member is considered AI

South Korea

talent if they have explicitly added AI skills to

Luxembourg

their profile or work in AI. Counts of AI talent

1.13%
0.88%
0.79%
0.74%

Finland0.71%

are used to calculate talent concentration, or

Germany

0.69%

Switzerland

0.68%

the portion of members who are AI talent. Note

Netherlands

that concentration metrics may be influenced by

SwedenLinkedIn coverage in these countries and should

Irelandbe used with caution.

0.61%
0.56%
0.55%

France0.49%

CanadaFigure 4.2.16 shows AI talent concentration invarious countries. In 2023, the countries with thehighest concentrations of AI talent included Israel

0.45%

Denmark

0.42%

India

0.42%

Cyprus

0.40%

0.00%

0.20%

0.40%
0.60%
0.80%
AI talent concentration(1.1%), Singapore (0.9%), and South Korea (0.8%).

1.00%

1.20%
Figure 4.2.16

Figure 4.2.17 looks at the percent change in AI
talent concentration for a selection of countries
since 2016. During that time period, several major
economies registered substantial increases in their
AI talent pools. The countries showing the greatest
increases are India (263%), Cyprus (229%), andDenmark (213%).

Percentage change in AI talent concentration bygeographic area, 2016 vs. 2023
Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

India

263%

Cyprus229%

Denmark

213%

Canada188%

Singapore

172%

Germany

169%

Ireland161%

Switzerland

142%

Israel116%

Luxembourg

107%

Netherlands

75%

Finland70%

Sweden51%

South Korea

50%

France
0%

41%
40%

80%
120%
160%
200% 240%% change in AI talent concentration

280%

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AI talent concentration by gender, 2016–23

Source: LinkedIn, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Australia
0.43%

0.40%

0.55%

0.40%

0.20%
0.00%

Belgium

0.60%

0.19%
2017

2020

0.20%
2017

Chile

0.10%
0.00%

0.06%
2017

2020

2020

2023

0.50%

0.45%

0.10%

0.09%
2017

2020

2023

0.40%

0.34%

0.20%

2017

2020

AI talent concentration

2017

2020

2023

Luxembourg

0.50%
0.00%

2017

2017

2020

0.79%
0.50%
0.00%

2023

0.41%
2017

Portugal

0.15%
2017

2020

0.00%

2017

2020

0.20%
0.00%

2017

2020

0.22%
2017

0.50%

2023

0.77%

1.00%

0.35%

0.50%
0.00%

2023

2020

2023

0.37%
2017

2020

2023

2020

1.00%

0.75%

0.50%

0.40%

2017

2020

2023

0.00%

2023

0.49%

0.40%
0.20%
0.00%

0.19%
2017

0.20%
2017

2020

2023

0.30%

0.20%

0.14%

0.10%
0.00%

2017

2020

2023

0.53%
0.24%

0.20%
0.00%

2017

0.09%
2017

2020

2020

2023

Spain
0.17%

0.15%

2023

0.51%

0.40%
0.20%
0.00%

0.16%
2017

2020

2023

United Kingdom
0.26%
0.21%

0.47%

0.40%

0.23%

0.20%

0.10%
0.00%

2023

0.40%

0.20%

2023

2020

0.30%

United Arab Emirates

0.38%

2023

Norway

0.10%
0.00%

2020

0.37%

0.92%

2020

2017

New Zealand

0.20%

Switzerland

2017

0.21%

0.20%
0.00%

Italy
1.73%

1.50%

0.05%

2017

0.59%

Hong Kong

0.50%

0.00%

2023

0.40%

0.89%

0.00%

2020

0.60%

South Africa
0.67%

United States
0.40%

2023

1.03%

1.00%

0.00%

Sweden
0.50%

2020

2017

Denmark
0.59%

0.20%
0.00%

Singapore
0.44%

0.20%

2023

Netherlands

0.46%

0.40%

0.00%

2020

0.00%

Israel

0.33%

0.99%

1.00%

2023

0.72%

0.60%
0.40%
0.20%
0.00%

2023

0.60%

Ireland
0.45%
0.38%

2020

0.26%

0.20%

Germany
0.65%

0.00%

0.20%
0.00%

2023

0.60%

India
0.40%

2017

France
1.09%

2020

0.03%

0.40%

Finland

2017

0.05%
0.00%

0.59%

Cyprus
0.25%

0.20%

0.00%

1.00%

0.00%

2023

0.60%
0.40%

Costa Rica
0.22%

0.20%

Canada
0.14%

0.10%

0.20%
0.00%

2023

Brazil

0.15%

2017

2020

2023

0.00%

2017

2020

2023

Uruguay
0.48%

0.20%

0.21%

0.10%

2023

0.00%

0.22%
0.07%
2017

2020

Male
Female2023

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LinkedIn data provides insights on the AI talent gained

per 10,000 LinkedIn members by geographic area.

or lost due to migration trends. Net flows are defined

The countries that report the greatest incoming

as total arrivals minus departures within the given time

migration of AI talent are Luxembourg, Switzerland,

period. Figure 4.2.19 examines net AI talent migrationand the United Arab Emirates.

5

Net AI talent migration per 10,000 LinkedIn members by geographic area, 2023
Source: LinkedIn, 2023; World Bank Group, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Luxembourg

3.67

Switzerland

1.60

United Arab Emirates

1.48

Cyprus1.24

Germany

1.04

Canada0.96

Finland0.90

Netherlands

0.76

Australia

0.67

IrelandSingapore

0.60
0.50

Denmark

0.44

United Kingdom

0.41

Norway0.41

United States

0.40

0.00

0.50

1.00

1.50
2.00
2.50
Net AI talent migration (per 10,000 LinkedIn members)

3.00

3.50
Figure 4.2.19

Figure 4.2.20 documents AI talent migration data over time. In the last few years, Israel, India, and South Korea
have seen declining net AI talent migration figures, suggesting that AI talent has been increasingly flowing out ofthese countries.

5 LinkedIn membership varies considerably between countries, which makes interpreting absolute movements of members from one country to another difficult. To compare migration
flows between countries fairly, migration flows are normalized for the country of interest. For example, if country A is the country of interest, all absolute net flows into and out of country
A (regardless of origin and destination countries) are normalized based on LinkedIn membership in country A at the end of each year and multiplied by 10,000. Hence, this metric indicates
relative talent migration of all other countries to and from country A.

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per10,000LinkedIn
members
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area, area,
2019–23
Net AI
AItalent
talentmigration
migrationper
10,000LinkedIn
members
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2019–23
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BankGroup,
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reportreport
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Australia
Australia

Belgium
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11

0.67
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0

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2019

2021

2021

2023

2023

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2019

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0

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0

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2021

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talent migration(per 10,000
LinkedIn
members)
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LinkedIn
members)

01

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3.67

3.67
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2021

2023

Portugal

0.23

2023

0.23

2021

2023
0.25

Spain

−1
1
2019

2021

2023
0.41

United Kingdom

−1 1
2019

0

2023

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2023

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How Much Do Computer Scientists Earn?
Every year, Stack Overflow conducts a survey ofSalaries vary by position and geography. For

its community of professional developers who

instance, the average global salary for a cloud

use their tools. The latest iteration of the survey

infrastructure engineer is $105,000. In the United

profiled over 90,000 developers.

States, the average salary for such a position

Through this survey, respondents were asked
about their income. It is important to note thatthese respondents do not work exclusively with
AI. However, examining developer salaries canserve as a means to approximate the compensation

is $185,000. Both globally and in the UnitedStates, the highest compensated roles are senior
executives, followed by engineering managers.
For all surveyed positions, salaries are significantly
higher in the United States than in other countries.

of talent in AI-adjacent industries. Figure 4.2.21
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Senior executive (C-suite, VP, etc.)

124.75Engineering manager

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This section monitors AI investment trends, leveraging data from Quid, which analyzes investment data from more than
8 million companies worldwide, both public and private. Employing natural language processing, Quid sifts throughvast unstructured datasets—including news aggregations, blogs, company records, and patent databases—to detect
patterns and insights. Additionally, Quid is constantly expanding its database to include more companies, sometimes
resulting in higher reported investment volumes for specific years. For the first time, this year’s investment section in the
AI Index includes data on generative AI investments.

4.3 Investment
Corporate Investment

In 2023, the total investment dropped to $189.2

Figure 4.3.1 illustrates the trend in global corporate AI

Despite a slight reduction in private investment, theinvestment from 2013 to 2023, including mergers andmost significant downturn occurred in mergers andacquisitions, minority stakes, private investments, andacquisitions, which fell by 31.2% from the previous

public offerings. For the second consecutive year,

year. However, over the past decade, AI-related

global corporate investment in AI has seen a decline.

investments have increased thirteenfold.

billion, a decrease of approximately 20% from 2022.

Global corporate investment in AI by investment activity, 2013–23
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Startup Activity

Global private AI investment has declined for theThis section analyzes private investment trends insecond consecutive year (Figure 4.3.2). However, theartificial intelligence startups that have received overdecrease from 2022 was small (-7.2%) and smaller than

$1.5 million in investment since 2013.

the drop observed from 2021 to 2022. Despite recent
declines, private AI investment globally has grown
substantially in the last decade.

Private investment in AI, 2013–23
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While overall AI private investment decreased last year, funding for generative AI sharply increased (Figure 4.3.3).
In 2023, the sector attracted $25.2 billion, nearly nine times the investment of 2022 and about 30 times the amountfrom 2019. Furthermore, generative AI accounted for over a quarter of all AI-related private investment in 2023.

Private investment in generative AI, 2019–23
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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Interestingly, the number of newly funded AI companies jumped to 1,812, a 40.6% increase over the previous year
(Figure 4.3.4). Figure 4.3.5 visualizes the average size of AI private investment events, calculated by dividing the total
yearly AI private investment by the total number of AI private investment events. From 2022 to 2023, the averageincreased marginally, growing from $31.3 million to $32.4 million.
Number of newly funded AI companies in the world, 2013–23
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2023 marked a significant increase in the number of newly funded generative AI companies, with 99 new startups
receiving funding, compared to 56 in 2022, and 31 in 2019 (Figure 4.3.6).

Number of newly funded generative AI companies in the world, 2019–23
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Figure 4.3.7 reports AI funding events disaggregatedby size. In 2023, AI private investment events

AI private investment events by funding size,2022 vs. 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

decreased across nearly all funding size categories,

Funding Size

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Regional Comparison by Funding Amounttimes greater than the amount invested in the next

The United States once again led the world in terms

highest country, China ($7.8 billion), and 17.8 times

of total AI private investment. In 2023, the $67.2

the amount invested in the United Kingdom ($3.8

billion invested in the United States was roughly 8.7

billion) (Figure 4.3.8).

Private investment in AI by geographic area, 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United States

67.22

China

7.76

United Kingdom

3.78

Germany

1.91

Sweden1.89

France1.69

Canada1.61

Israel1.52

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When aggregating private AI investments since 2013, the country rankings remain the same: The United Statesleads with $335.2 billion invested, followed by China with $103.7 billion, and the United Kingdom at $22.3 billion(Figure 4.3.9).

Private investment in AI by geographic area, 2013–23 (sum)Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United States

335.24

China

103.65

United Kingdom

22.25

Israel

12.83

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Germany

10.35

India

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Figure 4.3.10, which looks at AI private investment over time by geographic area, suggests that the gap in private
investments between the United States and other regions is widening over time. While AI private investments havedecreased in China (-44.2%) and the European Union plus the United Kingdom (-14.1%) since 2022, the UnitedStates has seen a significant increase (22.1%) during the same period.

Private investment in AI by geographic area, 2013–23
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The disparity in regional AI private investment becomes particularly pronounced when examining generative AIrelated investments. For instance, in 2022, the United States outpaced the combined investments of the European
Union plus United Kingdom in generative AI by approximately $1.9 billion (Figure 4.3.11). By 2023, this gap widened
to $21.1 billion.

Private investment in generative AI by geographic area, 2019–23
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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Regional Comparison by Newly Funded
AI Companies

Consistent with trends in private investment, theThis section examines the number of newly funded

companies, followed by China with 122, and the

AI companies across different geographic regions.

United Kingdom with 104 (Figure 4.3.12).

United States leads all regions with 897 new AI

Number of newly funded AI companies by geographic area, 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United States

897

China

122

United Kingdom

104

Germany76

Canada59

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58

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45

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A similar trend is evident in the aggregate data since 2013. In the last decade, the number of newly funded AI
companies in the United States is around 3.8 times the amount in China, and 7.6 times the amount in the United
Kingdom (Figure 4.3.13).

Number of newly funded AI companies by geographic area, 2013–23 (sum)Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United States

5,509

China

1,446

United Kingdom

727

Israel442

Canada397

France

391

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338

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333

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319

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193

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Figure 4.3.14 presents data on newly funded AI

United States, along with the European Union and thecompanies in specific geographic regions, highlighting

United Kingdom, have seen significant increases in thea decade-long trend where the United States

number of new AI companies, in contrast to China,

consistently surpasses both the European Union andwhich experienced a slight year-over-year decrease.

the United Kingdom, as well as China. Since 2022, theNumber of newly funded AI companies by geographic area, 2013–23
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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Focus Area Analysis
Quid also disaggregates private AI investment by

Figure 4.3.16 presents trends over time in AI focus

focus area. Figure 4.3.15 compares global private AI

area investments. As noted earlier, most focus areas

investment by focus area in 2023 versus 2022. The

saw declining investments in the last year. Conversely,

focus areas that attracted the most investment insome of the areas that saw growth since 2022

2023 were AI infrastructure/research/governanceinclude AI infrastructure/research/governance and($18.3 billion); NLP and customer support ($8.1 billion);

data management, processing. Although now stilland data management and processing ($5.5 billion).

substantial, investments in medical and healthcare as

The prominence of AI infrastructure, research, andwell as NLP, customer support peaked in 2021 andgovernance reflects large investments in companies

have since then declined.

specifically building AI applications, such as OpenAI,
Anthropic, and Inflection AI.
Private investment in AI by focus area, 2022 vs. 2023
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Finally, 4.3.17 shows private investment in AI by focus

and the European Union and United Kingdom inarea over time within select geographic regions,investment in almost all focus area categories.

highlighting how private investment priorities in AI

A notable exception is facial recognition, where

differ across geographies. The significant increases

2023 investment totals were $90 million in theobserved in AI infrastructure/research/governance

United States and $130 million in China. Likewise, inwere mostly driven by investment in the United

semiconductor investments, China ($630 million) isStates. The United States significantly outpaces China

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2023

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This section examines the practical application of AI by corporations, highlighting industry adoption trends, howbusinesses are integrating AI, the specific AI technologies deemed most beneficial, and the impact of AI adoption on
financial performance.

4.4 Corporate Activity
Industry Adoption

Adoption of AI Capabilities

This section incorporates insights from McKinsey’s

The latest McKinsey report reveals that in 2023, 55%“The State of AI in 2023: Generative AI’s Breakoutof organizations surveyed have implemented AI in at

Year,” alongside data from prior editions. The 2023

least one business unit or function, marking a slight

McKinsey analysis is based on a survey of 1,684

increase from 50% in 2022 and a significant jump

respondents across various regions, industries,

from 20% in 2017 (Figure 4.4.1). AI adoption has spiked

company sizes, functional areas, and tenures. For theover the past five years, and in the future, McKinsey

first time, this year’s version of the McKinsey survey

expects to see even greater changes happening at

included detailed questions about generative AI

higher frequencies, given the rate of both AI technicaladoption and hiring trends for AI-related positions.

advancement and adoption.

Share of respondents who say their organizations have adopted AI in at least one function, 2017–23
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Figure 4.4.2 shows the proportion of surveyedcase by function among surveyed businesses in 2023

companies that use AI for specific functions.

was contact-center automation (26%), followed byCompanies may report employing AI in multiple

personalization (23%), customer acquisition (22%), andcapacities. The most commonly adopted AI use

AI-based enhancements of products (22%).7

Most commonly adopted AI use cases by function, 2023
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Contact-center automation

26%

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22%

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22%

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19%

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With respect to the type of AI capabilities embeddedof embedding was for virtual agents, also in thein at least one function or business unit, as indicatedfinancial services industry. Across all industries,

by Figure 4.4.3, robotic process automation had

the most embedded AI technologies were NL text

the highest rate of embedding within the financial

understanding (30%), robotic process automation

services industry (46%). The next highest rate(30%), and virtual agents (30%).

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Figure 4.4.4 shows AI adoption by industry and AI function in 2023. The greatest adoption was in product and/or service development for tech, media, and telecom (44%); followed by service operations for tech, media, andtelecom (36%) and marketing and sales for tech, media, and telecom (36%).

AI adoption by industry and function, 2023

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Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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Figure 4.4.5 illustrates the changes in AI adoption

operations (4). Conversely, across all industries, therates by industry and function from 2022 to 2023.

functions experiencing the most significant declines in

The areas with the largest annual gains across all

adoption include strategy and corporate finance (-12industries include marketing and sales (18 percentage

percentage points), risk (-9), and human resources (-2).

points), product/service development (14), and service

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Figure 4.4.6 shows the percentage of surveyed

greatest degree. Notably, a significant portion of

respondents across industries who reported hiring for

respondents within the financial services (44%) andvarious AI positions. Across all industries, respondents

the tech, media, and telecom sectors (44%) reported areported hiring data engineers (36%), AI data scientists

high rate of hiring machine-learning engineers.

(31%), and machine-learning engineers (31%) to the

AI-related roles that organizations hired in the last year by industry, 2023

Industry

Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

All industries

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Organizations have experienced both cost reductions

number of respondents reporting cost decreases

and revenue increases due to AI adoption (Figure(42%) and revenue gains (59%) as a result of using AI,

4.4.7). The areas where respondents most frequently

suggesting that AI tangibly helps businesses improvereported cost savings were manufacturing (55%),

their bottom line. Comparing this and last year’s

service operations (54%), and risk (44%). For revenue

averages reveals a 10 percentage point increase forgains, the functions benefiting the most from AI

cost decreases and a four percentage point decrease

included manufacturing (66%), marketing and sales

for revenue increases across all activities.

(65%), and risk (64%). Figure 4.4.7 shows a substantial

Cost decrease and revenue increase from AI adoption by function, 2022
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Function

Decrease by <10%

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Figure 4.4.8 presents global AI adoption by

adoption grew by 9 percentage points. North America

organizations, segmented by world regions. In 2023,

remains the leader in AI adoption. Greater China also

every surveyed region reported higher AI adoption

experienced a significant increase in AI adoption rates,

rates than in 2022. The most significant year-over-growing by 7 percentage points over the previous year.

year growth was seen in Europe, where organization

AI adoption by organizations in the world, 2022 vs. 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report55%

All geographies

50%
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Adoption of Generative AI Capabilities

The most frequent application is generating initial

How are organizations deploying generative AI?

8drafts of text documents (9%), followed closely

Figure 4.4.9 highlights the proportion of total

by personalized marketing (8%), summarizing text

surveyed respondents that report using generative AI

documents (8%), and creating images and/or videos

for a particular function. It is possible for respondents(8%). Most of the reported leading use cases are within

to indicate that they deploy AI for multiple purposes.

the marketing and sales function.

Most commonly adopted generative AI use cases by function, 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportCreating rst draft of text documents (e.g.,
advertising copy, technical sales content)

9%

Personalized marketing

8%

Summarization of text documents

8%

Creating images and/or videos

8%

Identifying trends in customer needs
and/or preferences

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6%

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insights, and/or anomalies

5%

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8 The adoption of generative AI capabilities is presented separately from the charts on the adoption of general AI capabilities earlier in the chapter, as it was a separate question in the survey.

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Figure 4.4.10 compares the proportion of respondents

AI within organizations shows similar patterns of

who report using AI versus specifically generative

distribution. Overall, general AI still dominates. The

AI for a given function. Figure 4.4.10 illustrates themost common functional applications of generative AI

degree to which generative AI has permeated general

are in marketing and sales (14%), product and/or service

AI usage patterns among businesses. When analyzed

development (13%), and service operations (10%).

9at the functional level, the use of AI and generative

AI vs. generative AI adoption by function, 2023
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24%

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9 While all generative AI use cases are considered general AI use cases, not all general AI use cases qualify as generative AI use cases.

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Figure 4.4.11 depicts the variation in generative AIof businesses across all geographies (55%) thatusage among businesses across different regions ofreported using AI, which was documented earlier inthe world. Across all regions, the adoption rate of

Figure 4.4.8. North America leads in adoption at 40%,

generative AI by organizations stands at 33%. This

followed closely by developing markets (including

amount is meaningfully lower than the percentage

India, Latin America, and the MENA region).

Generative AI adoption by organizations in the world, 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportAll geographies

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Use of AI by Developers

Most popular AI developer tools among professional
developers, 2023
Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Computer developers are among the most likely

GitHub Copilot

individuals to use AI in professional settings. As

TabnineAI becomes more integrated into the economy,AWS CodeWhisperer

becoming increasingly important.
Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer website
for computer programmers, conducts an annual
survey of computer developers. The 2023 survey,

AI developer tool

tracking how developers utilize and perceive AI is56.04%
11.74%
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Preference
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Most popular AI search tools among professional
developers, 2023
Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

AI developer tool. According to the survey,

ChatGPT

56.0% of respondents report using GitHub’s

Bing AI

83.25%
18.80%

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CodeWhisperer (4.9%).

Google Bard AI

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Figure 4.4.13 highlights which AI search tools,
software applications that use AI to enhancesearch functionality, are most favored by AI

AI search tool

Copilot, followed by Tabnine (11.7%) and AWS

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developers. The most popular AI search tools

Quora Poe 0.77%

according to professional developers wereNeeva AI 0.36%

ChatGPT (83.3%), followed by Bing AI (18.8%) and
WolframAlpha (11.2%).

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Figure 4.4.13

10 The survey was conducted in May 2023 and, therefore, may not account for the launch of more recently released AI tools such as Gemini and Claude 3.

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Top 10 most popular cloud platforms amongprofessional developers, 2023

Cloud platforms are crucial elements of the AI
ecosystem, providing cloud computing services

Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportthat allow developers to perform computationallyAmazon Web Services

intensive AI work. Figure 4.4.14 reports the

53.08%

Microsoft Azure

proportion of respondents that have reported

27.80%

Google Cloud

extensively using a specific cloud platform.
Cloud platform

According to the Stack Overflow survey, Amazon
Web Services (AWS) is the most commonly usedcloud platform among professional developers, with53.1% reporting regular use. Microsoft Azure follows

23.95%

Firebase

15.39%

Cloud are14.99%

Digital Ocean

14.11%

Heroku11.77%

at 27.8%, with Google Cloud at 24.0%.

Vercel10.31%

Workflow

Netlify

8.48%

Figure 4.4.15 explores the current and future

VMwareintegration of AI in developers’ workflows. A significant

6.45%

0%

10%

20%
30%
40%
% of respondents

majority of respondents, 82.6%, regularly use AI for

50%

60%

Figure 4.4.14

code writing, followed by 48.9% for debugging andassistance, and 34.4% for documentation. While only
23.9% currently use AI for code testing, 55.2% express
interest in adopting AI for this purpose.

Adoption of AI tools in development tasks, 2023
Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Writing code
Debugging and getting help

Development task

50.24%

8.07%
30.10%

48.97%

13.09%
23.87%

Testing code

55.17%

11.44%
13.52%

Project planning29.77%

38.54%

10.09%

Committing and reviewing code0%48.89%

34.37%

Learning about a codebase

Collaborating with teammates

40.66%

6.37%

Documenting code

Deployment and monitoring

82.55%

23.72%

4.48%

49.51%

22.95%
4.74%
28.33%
3.65%

20%

30%

41.38%
40%

50%% of respondents

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Not interested in using

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60%

70%

80%
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When asked about the primary advantages of AI tools
in professional development, developers responded

Primary bene ts of AI tools for professional
developers, 2023
Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportwith increased productivity (32.8%), accelerated

Increaseproductivity

learning (25.2%), and enhanced efficiency (25.0%)

32.81%(Figure 4.4.16).
Primary bene�t

Figure 4.4.17 displays the sentiments professional
developers have toward AI tools. A significant
majority of developers hold a positive view of AI
tools, with 27.7% feeling very favorably and 48.4%
favorably inclined toward them. Only 3.2% express
unfavorable opinions about AI development tools.

Speed uplearning

25.17%

Greatere�ciency

24.96%

Improve accuracy
in coding

13.31%

Improvecollaboration

Figure 4.4.18 highlights the reported level of trustdevelopers have in AI tools. More developers trust AI

3.75%

0%

10%

tools than distrust them, with 42.2% reporting high20%
% of respondents

30%

40%
Figure 4.4.16

or moderate trust in these technologies. In contrast,a smaller proportion, 27.2%, express some level of
distrust or high distrust in AI tools.

Sentiment toward AI tools in development amongprofessional developers, 2023

Trust level in AI tool output accuracy, 2023
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Source: Stack Over ow Developer Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Very favorable

Favorable

48.41%

Indi erent

16.80%

Unsure3.88%

Unfavorable

2.78%

5.46%

Somewhat distrust
Trust level

Sentiment

Highly distrust

27.71%

21.71%Neither trust
nor distrust

30.68%

Somewhat trust

Highly trust

Very unfavorable 0.42%
0%

10%

20%
30%
40%
% of respondents

50%
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40%
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AI’s Labor Impact

First, AI has been shown to enable workers toOver the last five years, the growing integration

complete tasks more quickly and produce higher

of AI into the economy has sparked hopes ofquality work. A meta-review by Microsoft, which

boosted productivity. However, finding reliable data

aggregated studies comparing the performance ofconfirming AI’s impact on productivity has been

workers using Microsoft Copilot or GitHub’s Copilot—

difficult because AI integration has historically been

LLM-based productivity-enhancing tools—with thoselow. In 2023, numerous studies rigorously examined

who did not, found that Copilot users completed

AI’s productivity impacts, offering more conclusive

tasks in 26% to 73% less time than their counterparts

evidence on the topic

without AI access (Figure 4.4.19).11

Cross-study comparison of task completion speed of Copilot users
Source: Cambon et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Copilot information
retrieval study

73% 73%

Task

Copilot common
task study

71% 71%

LLM-based
search study

47% 47%

GitHub Copilot
study

44% 44%

Copilot in teams
meeting study
0%26% 26%

10%

20%

30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Copilot users’ task completion speed relative to baseline (100%)

80%

90%

100%

Figure 4.4.19

11 This meta-review analyzed separate surveys of workers using Microsoft’s Copilot and GitHub’s Copilot tools. These are separate tools. Microsoft Copilot is a broader LLM-based
productivity improvement tool, while GitHub’s Copilot is a code-writing assistant.

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that consultants with access to GPT-4 increased
their productivity on a selection of consulting tasks
by 12.2%, speed by 25.1%, and quality by 40.0%,
compared to a control group without AI access(Figure 4.4.20). Likewise, National Bureau of
Economic Research research reported that callcenter agents using AI handled 14.2% more calls perhour than those not using AI (Figure 4.4.21).

E ect of GPT-4 use on a group of consultants
Source: Dell’Acqua et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Average improvement compared to control group (%)

Similarly, a Harvard Business School study revealed

40.00%

40%
35%
30%
25.10%

25%
20%
15%

12.20%

10%
5%0%Productivity

Speed

Quality

Performance metrics on consulting tasks
Figure 4.4.20

Impact of AI on customer support agents
Source: Brynjolfsson et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Hourly chats per customer support agent

3.00

2.97
2.60

2.50

2.00

1.50

1.00

0.50

0.00

Used AIDid not use AI
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A study on the impact of AI in legal analysis showedcompared to the control group, in terms of both workthat teams with GPT-4 access significantly improved inquality and time efficiency across a range of tasks.

efficiency and achieved notable quality improvements

Although AI can assist with legal tasks, there arein various legal tasks, especially contract drafting.

also widespread reports of LLM hallucinations being

Figure 4.4.22 illustrates the improvements observed

especially pervasive in legal tasks.

in the group of law students who utilized GPT-4,

E ect of GPT-4 use on legal analysis by task
Source: Choi et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Contract drafting

0.24

Complaint drafting

32.10%

24.10%

Task

0.17

EE handbook

0.07

21.10%

Client memo -0.07−0.10

11.80%

0.00

0.10

0.20

Improvement compared to control group (on a 4.0 scale)

0%

10%

20%

30%

Time saved (%) compared to control group
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Second, AI access appears to narrow the performance

Lower-skilled (bottom half) participants exhibitedgap between low- and high-skilled workers. According

a 43.0% improvement, while higher-skilled (topto the aforementioned Harvard Business Schoolhalf) participants showed a 16.5% increase. While

study, both groups of consultants experienced

higher-skilled workers using AI still performed better

performance boosts after adopting AI, with notably

than their lower-skilled, AI-using counterparts, thelarger gains for lower-skilled consultants using AI

disparity in performance between low- and high-compared to higher-skilled consultants. Figure 4.4.23

skilled workers was markedly lower when AI was

highlights the performance improvement across autilized compared to when it was not.

set of tasks for participants of varying skill levels:

Comparison of AI work performance e ect by worker skill category
Source: Dell’Acqua et al., 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Bottom-half skilled participants

6

Top-half skilled participants
6.06

6

5.79

5.20

4

5
Score (average on a 1–10 scale)

Score (average on a 1–10 scale)

5
4.05

3

2

1

0

4

3

2

1

Baseline task

Experimental task

0Baseline task

Experimental task
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Finally, while AI tends to enhance quality andperformed worse than those who received “bad AI,”

productivity, overreliance on the technology canwhich was capable but known to make errors (Figure

impair worker performance. A study focused on

4.4.24). The performance difference between theprofessional recruiters reviewing résumés found thatlatter groups was -1.08 points. The study theorizes

receiving any AI assistance improved task accuracy

that recruiters using “good AI” became complacent,by 0.6 points compared to not receiving AI assistance.

overly trusting the AI’s results, unlike those using “badHowever, recruiters who were provided with “goodAI,” who were more vigilant in scrutinizing AI output.

AI”—believed to be high-performing—actually

E ects on job performance of receiving di erent types of AI advice
Source: Dell’Acqua, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Any AI

Type of AI advice

0.60

Good vs.
bad AI

-1.08

−1.20

−1.00

−0.80

−0.60

−0.40
−0.20
Change in accuracy score

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

Figure 4.4.24

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Earnings Calls

Aggregate Trends

The following section presents data from Quid,

The past year has seen a significant rise in the mention

which uses natural language processing tools toof AI in Fortune 500 company earnings calls. In 2023,

analyze trends in corporate earnings calls. Quid

AI was mentioned in 394 earnings calls (nearly 80%

analyzed all 2023 earnings calls from Fortune 500

of all Fortune 500 companies), up from 266 mentions

companies, identifying all mentions of “artificial

in 2022 (Figure 4.4.25). Since 2018, mentions of AI in

intelligence,” “AI,” “machine learning,” “ML,” andFortune 500 earnings calls have nearly doubled.

“deep learning.”

Number of Fortune 500 earnings calls mentioning AI, 2018–23
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Number of earnings calls

400

394

300

200

100

0

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023
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Specific Themes
Mentions of AI in Fortune 500 earnings calls wereMentions of generative AI grew from 0.31% in 2022.

associated with a wide range of themes in 2023. The

The next most mentioned theme was investments in AI,

most frequently cited theme, appearing in 19.7% ofexpansion of AI capabilities, and AI growth initiatives

all earnings calls, was generative AI (Figure 4.4.26).

(15.2%), followed by company/brand AIs (7.6%).

Themes of AI mentions in Fortune 500 earnings calls, 2018 vs. 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Generative AI

19.73% (+6351%)
0.31%

Investments in AI, expansion ofcapabilities, and growth initiatives

15.21% (+5%)
14.53%
7.64% (-2%)
7.80%

Company/brand AIs

7.36% (-25%)

Data storage and management

9.79%
5.68% (+49%)

Advertising and marketing

3.82%

AI and machine learning for enhanced
customer experience and growth

4.96% (-32%)
7.34%
4.76% (-8%)
5.20%

Process automation

4.36% (-51%)

Data center GPU

8.87%
3.84%

Large language models

3.56% (-31%)
5.20%

Cloud platforms

2.76% (-52%)

Deep learning

5.81%
2.76% (-40%)
4.59%

Healthcare and medical practices
Business integration

2.36% (-9%)
2.60%

Revenue growth

2.28% (-21%)
2.91%

Data processing

2.24% (+33%)
1.68%
2.20% (-65%)

Data analytics

6.27%

Edge intelligence

1.88% (-35%)
2.91%

Adobe experience

1.80% (-9%)
1.99%

Customer support

1.76% (+28%)
1.38%

Autonomous vehicles
Digital transformation
0%

2023

1.48% (-70%)

2018

4.89%
1.36% (-36%)
2.14%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

Theme mentioned (% of total)

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18%

20%

22%

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Projecting AI’s Economic Impact
In 2023, some newly published analyses aimed todollar amounts. The report projects that the high-project and better understand the future economic

tech industry could see its revenue increase by

impact of AI. A recent McKinsey report examined

4.8% to 9.3%, corresponding to an additional $240

the degree to which generative AI might impact

billion to $460 billion, as a result of generative AI.

revenues across industries. Figure 4.4.27 features

Banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products,

the projected impact range per industry, both asand education are other industries estimated toa percentage of total industry revenue and in total

grow due to the adoption of generative AI.

Anticipated impact of generative AI on revenue by industry, 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

4.80%

High tech
2.80%

4.70%

2.60%

4.50%

BankingPharmaceuticals andmedical products
Education
Telecommunications
Healthcare
Insurance
Media and entertainment
Advanced manufacturing
Consumer packaged goods
Advanced electronics andsemiconductors
0%

2.20%

240

60

3.70%

60

230

100

3.20%

150

260

50 70

3.10%

80

130

1.40% 2.40%

170

1.40%2.30%

160

1.30% 2.30%

2%

340

110
120

1.80% 2.80%
1.80%

460

200

4.00%

2.30%
1.80%

9.30%

100

4%

6%

% of total industry revenue

8%

10%

0

100

290
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170

200

300

400

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Projecting AI’s Economic Impact (cont’d)
The McKinsey survey cited above, the “State ofsize would decrease (Figure 4.4.28). Only 15% felt

AI in 2023,” asked business professionals aboutthat generative AI would lead to increases in thetheir expectations of AI’s impact on organizational

number of employees. There were also widespread

workforces in the next three years. Although a

predictions that AI would lead to significant

large proportion (30%) expected little to no change

employee reskilling.

in the number of employees, 43% felt that staff
Expectations about the impact of AI on organizations’ workforces in the next 3 years, 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

12%

Increase by >20%

3%

Increase by 11–20%

4%

Increase by 3–10%

Don’t know

8%

Little or no change

30%

Decrease by 3–10%

Decrease by 11–20%

Decrease by >20%
0%

Share of employees expected to be reskilled

Change in the number of employees

Don’t know

25%

10%

>20%

38%

11–20%

18%

6–10%

17%

≤5%

8%
10%

8%

20%

30%

% of respondents

40%

0%

20%

10%

20%

30%

40%

% of respondents

Figure 4.4.28

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Projecting AI’s Economic Impact (cont’d)
Perspectives differ on the anticipated effect of

supply chain management (45%), and HR (41%),

generative AI on employment per business function.

are especially likely, according to respondents, toCertain functions, like service operations (54%),

experience decreasing employment (Figure 4.4.29).

Anticipated e ect of generative AI on number of employees in the next 3 years by business function, 2023
Source: McKinsey & Company Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Decrease

Little or no change

Product and/or service development

30%

Risk

31%

Increase

Don’t know

35%

20%

37%

15%

20%

12%

25%

10%

Strategy and corporate nance37%

Marketing and sales

39%

33%

Manufacturing

40%

33%

12%

15%

HR

41%

30%

17%

11%

Supply chain management

28%

45%

Service operations
0%

17%

32%
54%

20%

23%
40%

60%
% of respondents

12%

14%

9%

12%

10%

80%

100%

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Projecting AI’s Economic Impact (cont’d)Finally, a Goldman Sachs investment report

Although the report projects that many countries will

released in 2023 projects that, globally, AI could

benefit from AI-driven productivity growth, certain

lead to productivity growth over 10-year periods

geographic areas, like Hong Kong, Israel, and Japan,

ranging between 1.0% and 1.5% (Figure 4.4.30).

are especially well-positioned.

Estimated impact of AI adoption on annual productivity growth over a ten-year period
Source: Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Percentage points

1.50

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application of AI-ready infrastructure. This section draws on data from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR),a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the robotics industry. Annually, the IFR publishes the World Robotics
Reports, which track global robot installation trends.12

4.5 Robot Installations
Aggregate Trends
The following section includes data on the installation

Figure 4.5.1 reports the total number of industrial

and operation of industrial robots, which are definedrobots installed worldwide by year. In 2022, industrial

as an “automatically controlled, reprogrammable,

robot installations increased slightly, with 553,000

multipurpose manipulator, programmable in threeunits marking a 5.1% increase from 2021. This growth

or more axes, which can be either fixed in place orreflects more than a threefold rise in installations

mobile for use in industrial automation applications.”

since 2012.

Number of industrial robots installed in the world, 2012–22
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Number of industrial robots installed (in thousands)

553

500

400

300

200

100

0

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022
Figure 4.5.1

12 Due to the timing of the IFR report, the most recent data is from 2022. Every year, the IFR revisits data collected for previous years and will occasionally update the data if more accurate
figures become available. Therefore, some of the data reported in this year’s report might differ slightly from data reported in previous years.

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The global operational stock of industrial robots reached 3,904,000 in 2022, up from 3,479,000 in 2021 (Figure
4.5.2). Over the past decade, both the installation and utilization of industrial robots have steadily increased.

Operational stock of industrial robots in the world, 2012–22
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

3,904

4,000

Number of industrial robots (in thousands)

3,500

3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

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2022
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Industrial Robots: Traditional vs.
Collaborative Robots

collaborative robots due to their safety, flexibility,
scalability, and ability to learn iteratively.

There is a distinction between traditional robots,
which operate for humans, and collaborative robots,
designed to work alongside them. The robotics

Figure 4.5.3 reports the number of industrial robots
installed in the world by type. In 2017, collaborative
robots accounted for just 2.8% of all new industrial

community is increasingly enthusiastic about

robot installations. By 2022, the number rose to 9.9%.

Number of industrial robots installed in the world by type, 2017–22
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report553

Traditional
526

Collaborative
Number of industrial robots installed (in thousands)

55

42

500

424
400

400

387

389

300

200

389

405

2017

2018

366

363

2019

2020

484

498

2021

2022

100

0

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By Geographic Area
Country-level data on robot installations cantimes more than Japan’s 50,400 and 7.4 times moresuggest which nations prioritize robot integration

than the United States’ 39,500 (Figure 4.5.4). South

into their economies. In 2022, China led the world

Korea and Germany followed with 31,170 and 25,600

with 290,300 industrial robot installations, 5.8

installations, respectively.

Number of industrial robots installed by country, 2022
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportChina

290.30

Japan

50.40

United States

39.50

South Korea

31.70

Germany

25.60

Italy

11.50

Taiwan7.80

France7.40

Mexico6.00

Singapore

5.90

India

5.40

Spain

3.80

Turkey3.70

Thailand

3.30

Canada

3.20

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Since surpassing Japan in 2013 as the leading installer of industrial robots, China has significantly widened thegap with the nearest country. In 2013, China’s installations accounted for 20.8% of the global total, a share thatrose to 52.4% by 2022 (Figure 4.5.5).

Number of new industrial robots installed in top 5 countries, 2012–22
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Number of industrial robots installed (in thousands)

300

290, China

250

200

150

100

50, Japan
40, United States
32, South Korea
26, Germany

50

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Since 2021, China has installed more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, with the gap widening
further in the last year (Figure 4.5.6). This increasing gap underscores China’s growing dominance in industrial
robot installations.

Number of industrial robots installed (China vs. rest of the world), 2016–22
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Number of industrial robots installed (in thousands)

300

290, China
263, Rest of the world

250

200

150

100

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2016

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According to the IFR report, most countries reported an annual increase in industrial robot installations from 2021
to 2022 (Figure 4.5.7). The countries with the highest growth rates include Singapore (68%), Turkey (22%), andMexico (13%). Canada (-24%), Taiwan (-21%), Thailand (-18%), and Germany (-1%) reported installing fewer robots
in 2022 than in 2021.

Annual growth rate of industrial robots installed by country, 2021 vs. 2022
Source: International Federation of Robotics (IFR), 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportSingapore

68%

Turkey22%

Mexico13%

France

13%

Spain

10%

United States

10%

Japan

9%

Italy

8%

China

5%

India

4%

South Korea

1%

Germany-1%

Thailand-18%

TaiwanCanada

-21%
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−20%

−10%

0%

10%
20%
30%
40%
Annual growth rate of industrial robots installed

50%

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cleaning. In 2022, more service robots were installed

Another important class of robots are service robots,for every application category than in 2021, with thewhich the ISO defines as a robot “that performs

exception of medical robotics (Figure 4.5.8). Moreuseful tasks for humans or equipment excluding

specifically, the number of service robots installed inindustrial automation applications.” Such robots can,hospitality and in transportation and logistics increased

for example, be used in medicine and professional

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and France also have significant numbers of robot

service robot manufacturing, with approximately

manufacturers, with 85,000, 72,000, and 53,000,

2.06 times more manufacturers than China, therespectively. In most surveyed countries, the majority

next leading nation (Figure 4.5.9). Germany, Japan,of these manufacturers are established incumbents.

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installations with 157,000 units, closely followed by

Figure 4.5.10 shows the number of industrial robots

the automotive sector with 136,000. Both sectors haveinstalled in the world by sector from 2020 to 2022.

seen continuous growth in industrial robot installations

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welding (87,000) and 4.4 times more than for assembly

installed in the world by application from 2020 to(61,000). Except for processing, every application

2022. Data suggests that handling is the predominantcategory witnessed an increase in robot installations inapplication. In 2022, 266,000 industrial robots were2022 compared to 2020.

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Figure 4.5.12 illustrates the number of industrial robots installed across various sectors in China over the past three
years. In 2022, the leading sectors for industrial robot installations in China were electrical/electronics (100,000),
automotive (73,000), and metal and machinery (31,000).

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AlphaDev		

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GraphCast

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Notable Medical Systems

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EVEscape

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Human Pangenome Reference

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Clinical Knowledge

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Overview
This year’s AI Index introduces a new chapter on AI in science and medicine in recognition ofAI’s growing role in scientific and medical discovery. It explores 2023’s standout AI-facilitatedscientific achievements, including advanced weather forecasting systems like GraphCast
and improved material discovery algorithms like GNoME. The chapter also examines medical
AI system performance, important 2023 AI-driven medical innovations like SynthSR and
ImmunoSEIRA, and trends in the approval of FDA AI-related medical devices.

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1. Scientific progress accelerates even further, thanks to AI. In 2022, AI began to advancescientific discovery. 2023, however, saw the launch of even more significant science-related AI applications—from AlphaDev, which makes algorithmic sorting more efficient, to GNoME, which facilitates the process ofmaterials discovery.

2. AI helps medicine take significant strides forward. In 2023, several significant medical systems
were launched, including EVEscape, which enhances pandemic prediction, and AlphaMissence, which assists in
AI-driven mutation classification. AI is increasingly being utilized to propel medical advancements.

3. Highly knowledgeable medical AI has arrived. Over the past few years, AI systems have shown
remarkable improvement on the MedQA benchmark, a key test for assessing AI’s clinical knowledge. The
standout model of 2023, GPT-4 Medprompt, reached an accuracy rate of 90.2%, marking a 22.6 percentage
point increase from the highest score in 2022. Since the benchmark’s introduction in 2019, AI performance on
MedQA has nearly tripled.

4. The FDA approves more and more AI-related medical devices. In 2022, the FDA approved 139
AI-related medical devices, a 12.1% increase from 2021. Since 2012, the number of FDA-approved AI-related medical
devices has increased by more than 45-fold. AI is increasingly being used for real-world medical purposes.

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5.1 Notable Scientific Milestones
AlphaDev

fundamental sorting algorithms on short sequences

AlphaDev discovers faster sorting algorithms

such as Sort 3, Sort 4, and Sort 5 (Figure 5.1.1). Some

AlphaDev is a new AI reinforcement learning systemof the new algorithms discovered by AlphaDev havethat has improved on decades of work by scientists

been incorporated into the LLVM standard C++ sortand engineers in the field of computational algorithmic

library. This marks the first update to this part ofenhancement. AlphaDev developed algorithms withthe library in over 10 years and is the first addition

fewer instructions than existing human benchmarks fordesigned using reinforcement learning.

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FlexiCubes

quality. FlexiCubes addresses some of these3D mesh optimization with FlexiCubes

limitations by employing AI for gradient-based

3D mesh generation, crucial in computer graphics,

optimization and adaptable parameters (Figure

involves creating a mesh of vertices, edges, and5.1.2). This method allows for precise, localized

faces to define 3D objects. It is key to video games,

mesh adjustments. Compared to other leading

animation, medical imaging, and scientific visualization.

methods that utilize differentiable isosurfacing for

Traditional isosurface extraction algorithms often

mesh reconstruction, FlexiCubes achieves meshstruggle with limited resolution, structural rigidity, andextractions that align much more closely with thenumerical instabilities, which subsequently impacts

underlying ground truth (Figure 5.1.3).

Sample FlexiCubes surface reconstructions
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SynbotSynbot design
Source: Ha et al., 2023

AI-driven robotic chemist forsynthesizing organic molecules
Synbot employs a multilayered system,comprising an AI software layer forchemical synthesis planning, a robot
software layer for translating commands,
and a physical robot layer for conducting
experiments. The closed-loop feedback
mechanism between the AI and therobotic system enables Synbot to develop
synthetic recipes with yields equal toor exceeding established references

Figure 5.1.4(Figure 5.1.4). In an experiment aimed atsynthesizing M1 [4-(2,3-dimethoxyphenyl)-the mid-80% reference range and completed the synthesis

1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine], Synbot

in significantly less time (Figure 5.1.5). Synbot’s automation

developed multiple synthetic formulasof organic synthesis highlights AI’s potential in fields such asthat achieved conversion yields surpassing

pharmaceuticals and materials science.

Reaction kinetics of M1 autonomous optimization experiment, Synbot vs. reference
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GraphCastand more. Figure 5.1.7 compares the performance

More accurate global weather forecastingof GraphCast with the current industry state-of-the-with GraphCast

art weather simulation system: the High Resolution

GraphCast is a new weather forecasting system

Forecast (HRES). GraphCast posts a lower root meanthat delivers highly accurate 10-day weather

squared error, meaning its forecasts more closely

predictions in under a minute (Figure 5.1.6). Utilizing

correspond to observed weather patterns. GraphCast

graph neural networks and machine learning,can be a valuable tool in deciphering weather patterns,

GraphCast processes vast datasets to forecastenhancing preparedness for extreme weather events,

temperature, wind speed, atmospheric conditions,and contributing to global climate research.

GraphCast weather prediction
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Sample material structures

GNoME

Source: Merchant et al., 2023

Discovering new materials with GNoME
The search for new functional materials is key toadvancements in various scientific fields, including
robotics and semiconductor manufacturing. Yet this
discovery process is typically expensive and slow.
Recent advancements by Google researchers havedemonstrated that graph networks, a type of AI
model, can expedite this process when trained onlarge datasets. Their model, GNoME, outperformed
the Materials Project, a leading method in materials
discovery, by identifying a significantly larger
number of stable crystals (Figure 5.1.8). GNoME has
unveiled 2.2 million new crystal structures, many

Figure 5.1.8

overlooked by human researchers (Figure 5.1.9 and
Figure 5.1.10). The success of AI-driven projects like
GNoME highlights the power of data and scaling inspeeding up scientific breakthroughs.

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Flood Forecasting

A team of Google researchers has used AI to develop

AI for more accurate and reliable flood forecasts

highly accurate hydrological simulation models

New research introduced in 2023 has madethat are also applicable to ungauged basins.1 Thesesignificant progress in predicting large-scale flood

innovative methods can predict certain extreme flood

events. Floods, among the most common natural

events up to five days in advance, with accuracy thatdisasters, have particularly devastating effects inmatches or surpasses current state-of-the-art models,less developed countries where infrastructure forsuch as GloFAS. The AI model demonstrates superior

prevention and mitigation is lacking. Consequently,

precision (accuracy of positive predictions) and recall

developing more accurate prediction methods that(ability to correctly identify all relevant instances)

can forecast these events further in advance could

across a range of return period events, outperforming

yield substantial positive impacts.

the leading contemporary method (Figure 5.1.11).2 Themodel is open-source and is already being used to
predict flood events in over 80 countries.

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AI models are becoming increasingly valuable in healthcare, with applications for detecting polyps to aiding clinicians
in making diagnoses. As AI performance continues to improve, monitoring its impact on medical practice becomesincreasingly important. This section highlights significant AI-related medical systems introduced in 2023, the current
state of clinical AI knowledge, and the development of new AI diagnostic tools and models aimed at enhancing
hospital administration.

5.2 AI in Medicine
Notable Medical Systems

SynthSR generations
Source: Iglesias et al., 2023

This section identifies significant AI-related
medical breakthroughs of 2023 as chosen by the
AI Index Steering Committee.

SynthSR
Transforming brain scans for advanced analysis
SynthSR is an AI tool that converts clinical brainscans into high-resolution T-1 weighted images(Figure 5.2.1). This advancement addresses the issueof scan quality variability, which previously limited
the use of many scans in advanced research. Bytransforming these scans into T1-weighted images,
known for their high contrast and clear brain
structure depiction, SynthSR facilitates the creation

Figure 5.2.1

of detailed 3D brain renderings. Experiments using
SynthSR demonstrate robust correlations between
observed volumes at both scan and subject levels,
suggesting that SynthSR generates images closely
resembling those produced by high-resolution T1scans. Figure 5.2.2 illustrates the extent to which
SynthSR scans correspond with ground-truth
observations across selected brain regions. SynthID
significantly improves the visualization and analysisof brain structures, facilitating neuroscientificresearch and clinical diagnostics.

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ImmunoSEIRA detection principle and the setup

Coupled Plasmonic Infrared Sensors

Source: Kavungal et al., 2023

Coupled plasmonic infrared sensors for thedetection of neurodegenerative diseases
Diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as
Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s depends on fast andprecise identification of biomarkers. Traditional
methods, such as mass spectrometry and ELISA, areuseful in that they can focus on quantifying protein
levels; however, they cannot discern changes instructural states. This year, researchers uncovered a
new method for neurodegenerative disease diagnosis
that combined AI-coupled plasmonic infrared sensors
that use Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption(SEIRA) spectroscopy with an immunoassay
technique (ImmunoSEIRA; Figure 5.2.3). In tests thatcompared actual fibril percentages with predictions

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was found to very closely match the actual reported
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EVEscape
Forecasting viral evolution for pandemicof viruses (Figure 5.2.5). EVEscape evaluates

preparedness

viral escape independently of current strain data

Predicting viral mutations is vital for vaccine designpredicting 50.0% of observed SARS-CoV-2 mutations,and pandemic minimization. Traditional methods,

outperforming traditional lab studies which predicted

which rely on real-time virus strain and antibody data,

46.2% and 32.3%, as well as a previous model, whichface challenges during early pandemic stages due

predicted only 24% of mutations (Figure 5.2.6).

to data scarcity. EVEscape is a new AI deep learningThis performance highlights EVEscape’s potential

model trained on historical sequences and biophysicalas a valuable asset for enhancing future pandemic

and structural information that predicts the evolution

preparedness and response efforts.

EVEscape design
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Hemaglobin subunit beta (HBB)

AlphaMissence

Source: Google DeepMind, 2023

Better classification of AI mutations
Scientists still do not fully understand which
genetic mutations lead to diseases. With millions ofpossible genetic mutations, determining whether
a mutation is benign or pathogenic requires laborintensive experiments.
In 2023, researchers from Google DeepMind
unveiled AlphaMissense, a new AI modelthat predicted the pathogenicity of 71 million
missense variants. Missense mutations are
genetic alterations that impact the functionalityof human proteins (Figure 5.2.7) and can leadto various diseases, including cancer. Of the 71
million possible missense variants, AlphaMissenseclassified 89%, identifying 57% as likely benign and
32% as likely pathogenic, while the remainder werecategorized as uncertain (Figure 5.2.8). In contrast,
human annotators have only been able to confirm

Figure 5.2.7

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Human Pangenome Reference

Source: Google Research, 2023

Using AI to map the human genome
The human genome is a set of molecular instructions
for a human. The first human genome draft was
released in 2000 and updated in 2022. However,the update was somewhat incomplete. It did notincorporate various genetic mutations, like blood
type, and did not as completely map diverse ancestry
groups. Therefore, under the existing genomereference, it would be difficult to detect diseases orfind cures in certain groups of people.
In 2023, the Human Pangenome Research Consortium,comprising 119 scientists from 60 institutions, used AI
to develop an updated and more representative humangenome map (Figure 5.2.9). The researchers achieved
remarkable accuracy, annotating a median of 99.07%

Figure 5.2.9

of protein-coding genes, 99.42% of protein-codingThis latest version of the genome represents the mosttranscripts, 98.16% of noncoding genes, and 98.96%

comprehensive and genetically diverse mapping of theof noncoding transcripts, as detailed in Figure 5.2.10.

human genome to date.

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Clinical Knowledge
Evaluating the clinical knowledge of AI models

remarkable improvement, with the leading system,

involves determining the extent of their medical

GPT-4 Medprompt, achieving an accuracy rate ofexpertise, particularly knowledge applicable in a

90.2%—an increase of 22.6 percentage points fromclinical setting.

the top score in 2022 (Figure 5.2.11). Since MedQA’s
inception, AI capabilities on this benchmark have

MedQA
Introduced in 2020, MedQA is a comprehensive
dataset derived from professional medical board

nearly tripled, showcasing the rapid improvements ofclinically knowledgeable AI systems.

exams, featuring over 60,000 clinical questions
designed to challenge doctors.
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GPT-4 Medprompt
Although LLMs exhibit impressive

Moreover, as noted earlier, GPT-4 Medprompt was the first to

general knowledge, it is commonly

surpass the 90% accuracy mark on the MedQA benchmark.

assumed that significant fine-tuning

This breakthrough not only underscores GPT-4 Medprompt’s

is required for them to excel at

exceptional and potentially clinically useful medical

specialized knowledge, such ascapabilities but also demonstrates that fine-tuning may notanswering medical questions. Fine-

always be necessary for adapting models to specializedtuning entails training an LLM on

domains. Prompt engineering has shown to be a promisingdomain-specific data.

alternative strategy.

Research from Microsoft in late 2023
has overturned this assumption.
This study employed prompt

GPT-4 vs. Med-PaLM 2 answering a medical question
Source: Nori et al., 2023

engineering to direct GPT-4 towardachieving remarkable performanceon the MultiMedQA benchmark
suite, a group of four challenging
medical benchmarks (Figure 5.2.12).
GPT-4 Medprompt exceeded theperformance of the top 2022 model,
Flan-PaLM 540B, in the multiplechoice sections of several renowned
medical benchmarks, including
PubMedQA, MedMCQA, and MMLU,
by 3.0, 21.5, and 16.2 percentage
points, respectively. It also exceeded
the performance of the then state-ofthe-art Med-PaLM 2 (Figure 5.2.13).

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GPT-4 Medprompt (cont’d)Model performance on MultiMedQA sub-benchmarks
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MMLU

MedMCQA

PubMedQA

MedQA

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MediTron-70B
GPT-4 Medprompt is an impressive system;

PaLM 2 (both closed models), it represents

however, it is closed-source, meaning its weights

a significant improvement over the state-of-

are not freely available to the broader public forthe-art results from 2023 and surpasses otheruse. New research in 2023 has also sought toopen-source models like Llama 2 (Figure 5.2.14).

advance the capabilities of open-source medical

MediTron-70B’s score on MedQA is the highest

LLMs. Among this new research, MediTron-70B

yet achieved by an open-source model. If medical

stands out as particularly promising. This model

AI is to reach its fullest potential, it is importantachieves a respectable 70.2% accuracy on thethat its capabilities are widely accessible. In this

MedQA benchmark. Although this is below thecontext, MediTron represents an encouraging

performance of GPT-4 Medprompt and Med-

step forward.

Performance of select models on MedQA
Source: Chen et al., 2023 | Table: 2024 AI Index report

Model

Release date

Access type

Score on MedQA

GPT-4 Medprompt

November 2023

Closed90.20%

Med-PaLM 2April 2023

Closed86.20%

MediTron-70B

November 2023

Open70.20%

Med-PaLM

December 2022

Closed67.20%

Llama 2

July 2023

Open

63.80%

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AI tools can also be used for diagnostic purposes including, for example, in radiology or cancer detection.

Highlighted Research:

CoDoC
AI medical imaging systems demonstrate robust(the ability to accurately identify those without it).

diagnostic capabilities, yet there are instances

Specifically, across four medical datasets, CoDoC’s

where they overlook diagnoses that clinicians

sensitivity surpasses clinicians’ by an average ofcatch, and vice versa. This observation suggests

4.5 percentage points and a standalone AI model’sa logical integration of AI systems and clinicians’

by 6.5 percentage points (Figure 5.2.15). In terms

diagnostic abilities. In 2023, researchers unveiledof specificity, CoDoC outperforms clinicians by

CoDoC (Complementarity-Driven Deferral toan average of 2.7 percentage points across tested

Clinical Workflow), a system designed to discern

datasets and a standalone predictive model by 5.7

when to rely on AI for diagnosis and when to defer

percentage points. Moreover, CoDoC has been

to traditional clinical methods. CoDoC notably

shown to reduce clinical workflow by 66%. Theseenhances both sensitivity (the ability to correctly

findings suggest that AI medical systems can be

identify individuals with a disease) and specificity

integrated into clinical workflows, thereby enhancing
diagnostic accuracy and efficiency.

CoDoC vs. standalone predictive AI system and clinical readers: sensitivity
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CoDoC

Clinician(s)Standalone predictive AI model

100%

96.70% 96.70%
86.70%

80%

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62.70%

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90.50%89.40%90.90%

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20%

0%

UK mammography dataset

US mammography dataset 1
Breast cancer detection

US mammography dataset 2

Task and dataset

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CT Panda
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a particularly
lethal cancer, often detected too late for surgical intervention.
Screening for PDAC in asymptomatic individuals is

PANDA
detection
Source:Cao et al., 2023

Figure 5.2.16

challenging due to its low prevalence and the risk of false
positives. This year, a Chinese research team developed
PANDA (pancreatic cancer detection with artificial
intelligence), an AI model capable of efficiently detecting
and classifying pancreatic lesions in X-rays (Figure 5.2.16). In
validation tests, PANDA surpassed the average radiologist insensitivity by 34.1% and in specificity by 6.3% (Figure 5.2.17).
In a large-scale, real-world test involving approximately
20,000 patients, PANDA achieved a sensitivity of 92.9% anda specificity of 99.9% (Figure 5.2.18). AI medical tools like
PANDA represent significant advancements in diagnosing
challenging conditions, offering cost-effective and accurate
detection previously considered difficult or prohibitive.

PANDA vs. mean radiologist on multicenter validation(6,239 patients)
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PANDA performance on real-world multi-scenario
validation (20,530 patients)
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100%
35%

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Other Diagnostic Uses
New research published in 2023 highlights how AI can be used in other diagnostic contexts. Figure 5.2.19
summarizes some of the findings.

Additional research on diagnostic AI use cases

Source: AI Index, 2024

Research

Use case

Findings

Schopf et al., 2023

Breast cancer

The authors conducted a meta-review of the literature exploring mammography-image-based
AI algorithms. They discovered that predicting future breast cancer risk using only
mammography images achieves accuracy that is comparable to or better than traditional risk
assessment tools.

Dicente Cid et al., 2023

X-ray interpretation

The researchers developed two open-source neural networks, X-Raydar and X-Raydar-NLP,
for classifying chest X-rays using images and free-text reports. They found that these
automated classi cation methods perform at levels comparable to human experts anddemonstrate robustness when applied to external data sets.
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FDA-Approved AI-Related Medical Devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Figure 5.2.20 illustrates the number of AI medical

maintains a list of AI/ML-enabled medical devices

devices approved by the FDA over the past decade.

that have received approval. The devices featured

In 2022, a total of 139 AI-related medical deviceson this list meet the FDA’s premarket standards,

received FDA approval, marking a 12.1% increase fromwhich include a detailed review of their effectivenessthe total approved in 2021. Since 2012, the number ofand safety. As of October 2023, the FDA has notthese devices has increased by more than 45-fold.

approved any devices that utilize generative AI or are
powered by LLMs.

Number of AI medical devices approved by the FDA, 2012–22
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up to 2022.

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Figure 5.2.21 illustrates the specialties associated with FDA-approved medical devices. Of the 139 devices
approved in 2022, a significant majority, 87.1%, were related to radiology. The next most common specialty wascardiovascular, accounting for 7.2% of the approvals.

Number of AI medical devices approved by the FDA by specialty, 2012–22

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Administration and Care
AI tools also hold the potential to enhance medical administration efficiency and elevate the standard of patient care.

Highlighted Research:

MedAlign
Despite significant advances

benchmark with 983 questions and instructions and 303 clinician

in AI for healthcare, existing

responses, drawn from seven different medical specialties (Figure

benchmarks like MedQA and5.2.22). MedAlign is the first extensive EHR-focused benchmark.

USMLE, focused on knowledgebased questions, do not fully
capture the diverse tasks
clinicians perform in patientcare. Clinicians often engage
in information-intensive tasks,
such as creating tailoreddiagnostic plans, and spend a

The researchers then tested various existing LLMs on MedAlign. Of
all LLMs, a GPT-4 variant using multistep refinement achieved thehighest correctness rate (65.0%) and was routinely preferred overother LLMs (Figure 5.2.23). MedAlign is a valuable milestone toward
using AI to alleviate administrative burdens in healthcare.
MedAlign workflow
Source: Fleming et al., 2023

significant proportion of theirworking hours on administrative
tasks. Although AI has thepotential to streamline these

Figure 5.2.16

processes, there is a lack ofsuitable electronic healthrecords (EHR) datasets forbenchmarking and fine-tuning
medically administrative LLMs.
This year researchers havemade strides to address thisgap by introducing MedAlign:
a comprehensive EHR-based

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MedAlign (cont’d)
Evaluation of model performance: human vs. COMET ranks
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72%

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37%

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GPT-4 (32k + MR)

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Model A (winner)

56%

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GPT-4 (32k + MR)

COMET ranks

GPT-4 (32k + MR)

Human ranks

Model B (loser)

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329

United States and Canada

329

CS Bachelor’s Graduates

329

CS Master’s Graduates

331

CS PhD Graduates

333

CS, CE, and Information Faculty

336

Europe344

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT Bachelor’s Graduates

344

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT Master’s Graduates

347

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD Graduates

351

AI-Related Study Programs

355

Total Courses

355

Education Level

356

Geographic Distribution

357

6.2 K–12 CS and AI Education

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United States

359

State-Level Trends

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AP Computer Science361

Highlight: Access Issues

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Highlight: ChatGPT Usage Among
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Overview
This chapter examines trends in AI and computer science (CS) education, focusing on who islearning, where they are learning, and how these trends have evolved over time. Amid growing
concerns about AI’s impact on education, it also investigates the use of new AI tools like
ChatGPT by teachers and students.
The analysis begins with an overview of the state of postsecondary CS and AI education in the
United States and Canada, based on the Computing Research Association’s annual Taulbee
Survey. It then reviews data from Informatics Europe regarding CS education in Europe. This
year introduces a new section with data from Studyportals on the global count of AI-related
English-language study programs.
The chapter wraps up with insights into K–12 CS education in the United States from Code.org
and findings from the Walton Foundation survey on ChatGPT’s use in schools.

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1. The number of American and Canadian CS bachelor’s graduates continues to rise, newCS master’s graduates stay relatively flat, and PhD graduates modestly grow. While thenumber of new American and Canadian bachelor’s graduates has consistently risen for more than a decade, thenumber of students opting for graduate education in CS has flattened. Since 2018, the number of CS master’s and
PhD graduates has slightly declined.

2. The migration of AI PhDs to industry continues at an accelerating pace. In 2011, roughly
equal percentages of new AI PhDs took jobs in industry (40.9%) and academia (41.6%). However, by 2022, asignificantly larger proportion (70.7%) joined industry after graduation compared to those entering academia(20.0%). Over the past year alone, the share of industry-bound AI PhDs has risen by 5.3 percentage points,
indicating an intensifying brain drain from universities into industry.

3. Less transition of academic talent from industry to academia. In 2019, 13% of new AI faculty in the
United States and Canada were from industry. By 2021, this figure had declined to 11%, and in 2022, it further dropped
to 7%. This trend indicates a progressively lower migration of high-level AI talent from industry into academia.

4. CS education in the United States and Canada becomes less international. Proportionallyfewer international CS bachelor’s, master’s, and PhDs graduated in 2022 than in 2021. The drop in international
students in the master’s category was especially pronounced.

5. More American high school students take CS courses, but access problems remain.
In 2022, 201,000 AP CS exams were administered. Since 2007, the number of students taking these exams has
increased more than tenfold. However, recent evidence indicates that students in larger high schools and those insuburban areas are more likely to have access to CS courses.

6. AI-related degree programs are on the rise internationally. The number of English-language,
AI-related postsecondary degree programs has tripled since 2017, showing a steady annual increase over the past
five years. Universities worldwide are offering more AI-focused degree programs.

7. The United Kingdom and Germany lead in European informatics, CS, CE, and IT graduate
production. The United Kingdom and Germany lead Europe in producing the highest number of new informatics,
CS, CE, and information bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD graduates. On a per capita basis, Finland leads in the
production of both bachelor’s and PhD graduates, while Ireland leads in the production of master’s graduates.
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This section provides an overview of postsecondary education in CS and AI, highlighting graduation statistics acrossNorth America and Europe for various degrees including bachelor’s, master’s, and PhDs. It also covers information on
AI-related courses offered in English.

6.1 Postsecondary CS and AI Education
United States and Canada

CS Bachelor’s Graduates

This subsection presents an analysis of data from thebachelor’s graduates in North America has steadily

Computing Research Association’s Taulbee Survey,

risen, increasing more than threefold, with a 7.9%

which evaluates the state of CS and AI postsecondary

year-over-year rise from 2021 to 2022 (Figure 6.1.1).

Over the past decade, the total number of new CS

education in the United States and Canada. The
survey covers 297 PhD-granting CS departments
across the United States and Canada.1

New CS bachelor’s graduates in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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35,66635,00031,835

Number of new CS bachelor’s graduates

30,00033,05928,527
26,70925,00022,34320,00018,954
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1 It is important to note that not all PhD-granting departments targeted in the survey provided responses. Out of the 297 departments targeted, only 182 responded, yielding an overall
response rate of 61%.

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For the first time in almost eight years, the proportion

the data. The decline is also partially attributable toof international students among CS bachelor’s

international travel restrictions that were imposed

graduates in American and Canadian universities

during the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting the ability

declined, falling from 16.3% in 2021 to 15.2% in

of international students to study in the United States

2022 (Figure 6.1.2). This decline likely reflects theand Canada. Despite this recent drop, the overall

increased difficulty of obtaining study visas during

trend over the last decade shows a steady increase in

the early years of the Trump administration, an

the proportion of international students.

impact that is only now beginning to manifest in

New international CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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New international CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total)

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AI courses are commonly included in CS master’s

the number appears to have leveled out since 2018 anddegree programs. While the total number of new CS

slightly decreased, by 2.5%, last year (Figure 6.1.3). Thismaster’s graduates from American and Canadianleveling is a reflection of the decline in international

universities more than doubled over the past decade,master’s students shown in the following graph.

New CS master’s graduates in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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16,00015,532

Number of new CS master’s graduates

14,00014,735

14,85315,068

2019

2020

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In 2022, American and Canadian universities experienced a notable decrease in international CS master’s students.
This downward trend began around 2017, but the decline was most pronounced last year, at 14.8 percentage points(Figure 6.1.4). Currently, the split between international and domestic CS master’s graduates is roughly even.

New international CS master’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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New international CS master’s graduates (% of total)

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CS PhD Graduates
For the first time in a decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of new CS PhD graduates at
American and Canadian universities. In 2022, the number of CS PhD graduates reached 2,105, the highest since2010 (Figure 6.1.5).

New CS PhD graduates in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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2,105

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While the proportion of international students among CS PhD graduates has risen over the past decade, there wasa slight decrease in this proportion in the last year, dropping from 68.6% in 2021 to 65.9% in 2022 (Figure 6.1.6).

New international CS PhD graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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Where do newly minted AI PhDs choose to work

However, by 2022, a significantly larger proportion

after graduating? Following a trend highlighted in last

(70.7%) joined industry after graduation compared

year’s AI Index report, a growing share of AI doctoral

to those entering academia (20.0%). The percentage

recipients are pursuing careers in industry (Figure 6.1.7

of new AI PhDs going into government roles has

and Figure 6.1.8). In 2011, around the same percentage

remained relatively low and steady at around 0.7%

took jobs in industry (40.9%) as in academia (41.6%).

over the past five years.

Employment of new AI PhDs (% of total) in the
United States and Canada by sector, 2010–22

Employment of new AI PhDs in the United States andCanada by sector, 2010–22

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Number of new AI PhD graduates

New AI PhD graduates (% of total)

Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report2022

Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Figure 6.1.8

2 The sums in Figure 6.1.7 do not add up to 100, as there is a subset of new AI PhDs each year who become self-employed, unemployed, or report an “other” employment status in the CRA
survey. These students are not included in the chart.

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CS, CE, and Information Faculty
To better understand trends in CS and AI education, it is helpful to examine data on CS faculty. Last year, the total
number of CS, CE, and information faculty in American and Canadian universities increased 7.2% (Figure 6.1.9).
Since 2011, the increase is 42.4%.

Number of CS, CE, and information faculty in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

10,000Tenure Track

Teaching Professors

Other Instructors

Research

Postdoc

Number of CS, CE, and information faculty

9,000

8,738

8,000
7,362
7,000
6,000
5,000

6,138

6,314

6,478

602

766

515

676

661

487

4,366

4,536

4,549

2011

2012

2013

656
447

669

6,629
689
529

6,806

6,887

649

589

432

432

390

1,014

1,122

4,548

4,711

4,786

2014

2015

2016

863

691

7,657
653
465

494

7,858
668
426

7,976
530

8,149

531

522
919

736

861

1,150

617

1,252

1,180

831

895

1,183

5,059

5,214

5,252

5,231

5,310

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

4,000
3,000
2,000

5,733

1,000
0

2022
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In 2022, the United States had 7,084 CS faculty members, with the majority (65.7%) on the tenure track (Figure
6.1.10). The total number of American CS faculty has risen 4.4% since 2021 and 45.0% since 2011.

Number of CS faculty in the United States, 2011–22
Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

8,000
Tenure Track

Teaching Professors

Other Instructors

Research

Postdoc

7,000
6,430
6,098

6,000

5,637

Number of CS faculty

5,256
5,000

4,885
522

4,000

387

521

5,068
592

460
550

521

491
421

5,202

535

509

396

455

826

5,729
491

567

426

518
382

424

6,789

436

947

671

715

7,084
453

428

618

693

946

899

534

408

364

903

531

6,533

6,654

736

947

679

3,000

2,000
3,455

3,725

3,564

3,559

2012

2013

2014

4,176

4,366

4,384

4,482

4,657

3,971

4,390

3,880

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

1,000

0

2011

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Last year, 915 new faculty were hired across CS, CE, and information disciplines in North America, a decade high.
455 of these positions were tenure track. (Figure 6.1.11).

New CS, CE, and information faculty hires in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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Number of new CS, CE, and information faculty hires

Total

915

Tenure-Track

878

860

800

800

749

733

765

749

710

691

600

583

572

543

396

400

348
294
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406

455

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358

324

320

258
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200

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2011

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In 2022, 43% of new faculty appointments came from other academic positions, indicating a “churn” within
the academic workforce (Figure 6.1.12). Since these “new” faculty members vacated positions elsewhere, theirprevious roles will eventually need to be filled. Additionally, the proportion of faculty transitioning from industry
in 2022 fell to 7% from 11% in the previous year and 13% in 2019.

Source of new faculty in American and Canadian CS, CE, and information departments, 2018–22
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New PhD

From Postdoc

From Other Academic

From Industry

100%
13%

13%

11%

11%

34%

34%

16%

15%

7%

Source of new faculty

80%
34%

43%

41%

60%

15%
40%

20%

16%
17%

38%

39%

40%

2020

2021

29%

0%

2018

2019

34%

2022
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The reasons for faculty positions remaining unfilledwere turned down. This trend appears to reflect anhave varied over the past decade. In 2011, 37% of failed

increasingly competitive market for new CS faculty.

searches were due to no offer being made, while 34%

However, it remains unclear whether this indicateswere because the offer made was declined (Figureheightened competition with other academic positions

6.1.13). In contrast, in 2022, only 15% ended with noor with industry positions.

offer being made, while 55% involved offers that

Reason why new CS, CE, and information faculty positions remained un lled (% of total), 2011–22

Reason faculty positions remained un�lled (% of total)

Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Didn’t �nd a person who met our hiring goals

Technically vacant, not �lled for admin reasonsO�ers turned down

Hiring in progress

Other

100%
10%

18%

10%
80%

25%

26%

10%

5%

17%

31%

28%

27%

23%

22%
18%

55%
60%

23%

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6%

45%

12%

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36%

40%

40%
43%

52%

51%

56%

53%

55%

44%
20%

37%

37%

37%
26%

0%

2011

2012

2013

2014

26%

2015

16%

14%

14%

13%

2016

2017

2018

2019

8%
2020

14%

15%

2021

2022
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In 2022, North American departments in CS, CE, and information disciplines experienced a significant increasein faculty departures, totaling 405, compared to 303 in 2021 (Figure 6.1.14). Of these losses, 38.5% left for otheracademic positions, while 16.3% moved to nonacademic roles, maintaining a trend consistent with previous years.

Faculty losses in American and Canadian CS, CE, and information departments, 2011–22
Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

450

Died

Took academic position elsewhere

Remained, but changed to part-time

RetiredTook nonacademic position

Other

Unknown
405

400
350

327
303

Faculty losses

300
270
250
213
200

221

150

34

100

52

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67

2011

62

89

2012

237

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234

43

34

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2013

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2015

2016

66

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312

126

139
113

110

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2017

94

103

91

2018

2019

2020

100

2021

112

2022
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Since 2015, the increase in median nine-month salaries for full professors has slightly fallen below U.S. inflation
rates, whereas median salaries for assistant and associate professors have seen slight increases above inflation.
In 2022, a full professor’s salary was 3.2% higher than in 2021, which did not keep pace with the 7% U.S. inflation
rate, and 16.4% higher than in 2015, still below the 19% inflation increase over those years (Figure 6.1.15).

Median nine-month salary of CS faculty in the United States, 2015–22
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Full Professor

Median salary of CS faculty (in thousands of U.S. dollars)

180
160

Associate Professor

181.61176.01

170.57168.87164.54159.96158.97156.02

Assistant Professor

140
120

134.08103.01101.1699.12

100

119.48117.5

113.95111.67121.55
107.55105.45123.71

127.47114.07109.23119.03

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60
40
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2015

2016

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2022
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In 2022, the proportion of international hires among new tenure-track faculty in CS, CE, and information
disciplines significantly increased to 19.3% from 13.2% the previous year (Figure 6.1.16). This marked the secondhighest percentage recorded in the past decade, only surpassed by 2013.

New international CS, CE, and information tenure-track faculty hires (% of total) in the United States andCanada, 2010–22
Source: CRA Taulbee Survey, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

New international tenure-track faculty hires (% of total)

25%

20%

19.30%

15%

10%

5%

0%

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022
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EuropeInformatics, CS, CE, and IT Bachelor’s
Graduates

Data on European CS graduates comes fromIn 2022, the United Kingdom led with the highest

Informatics Europe, an academic and researchcommunity that, among other goals, monitors thestate of informatics education in Europe.3 Informatics
Europe gathers data on graduates in informatics,
CS, CE, computing, and information technology(IT) disciplines from statistical offices of European
governments.4

number of new graduates in informatics, CS, CE,
and IT at the bachelor’s level, totaling approximately
25,000 (Figure 6.1.17).5 Germany and Turkey followed
closely. Most countries in the sample saw an increasein graduates in these fields compared to a decadeago, though there were exceptions like Poland, Spain,
and the Czech Republic (Figure 6.1.18).

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates by country in Europe, 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United Kingdom

25,040Germany

19,920Turkey13,826

Poland

9,241

Italy

8,508

Netherlands

6,877

Romania

6,740

Spain

6,650

Portugal

3,696

Finland2,970

Czech Republic
Norway

2,670
2,340

Ireland

1,995

Austria

1,900

Switzerland

1,789

0

2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,00012,00014,00016,00018,00020,00022,00024,000

Number of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates
Figure 6.1.17

3 There is no singular term for CS education that is used uniformly across European countries. Across Europe, CS education can be reflected in terms such as informatics, computer science(CS), computer engineering (CE), computing, information technology (IT), information and communication technology (ICT), and information science and technology (IST). The full list of
subject names (and English translations) that Informatics Europe uses to identify informatics studies programs can be found at the following link.
4 Readers are cautioned against making per capita comparisons between the CRA North American data and the European CS graduate data detailed in subsequent sections, as the European
data is collected from national statistical offices and boasts broader coverage.
5 Note that not all countries for which the AI Index has data are visualized in the figures in this section. To access the complete data, please view the public data associated with this chapter.
Moreover, the year label refers to the year in which an academic year ends. For example, the figures visualizing new graduates for 2022 reflect the number of graduates reported for the2021/2022 academic year. For the sake of visual simplicity, the Index opts to focus on the year in which students graduated.

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Percentage change of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates by country in Europe,
2012 vs. 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Norway153%

Turkey118%

Switzerland

117%

Netherlands

88%

Portugal72%

Romania70%

Ireland

66%

Austria

59%

Italy

48%

United Kingdom

39%

Germany

28%

Finland

23%

Spain

-14%

PolandCzech Republic

-15%

-21%

−20%

0%

20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
% change of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates

120%

140%

160%
Figure 6.1.18

Finland (53.4), Norway (42.6), and the Netherlands (38.6) lead in the number of new bachelor’s graduates in
informatics CS, CE, and IT per 100,000 inhabitants (Figure 6.1.19). On a per capita basis, most sampled European
countries have seen increases in the total number of informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates (Figure 6.1.20).

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Finland53.38

Norway42.63

Netherlands

38.61

Ireland38.41

United Kingdom

37.36

Romania

35.38

Portugal

35.31

Estonia

34.78

Lithuania

33.42

Poland25.14

Bulgaria

25.14

Czech Republic

24.66

Germany

23.61

Latvia22.73

Austria

20.87
0

10

20

30

40

50

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates (per 100,000 inhabitants)
Figure 6.1.19

Percentage change of new CS, CE, and Information bachelor’s graduates per 100,000 inhabitants by countryin Europe, 2012 vs. 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Norway133%

Romania

78%

Netherlands

77%

Portugal

72%

Bulgaria

67%

Ireland

48%

Austria47%

United Kingdom

33%

Estonia25%

Germany

22%

Finland20%

Poland-12%

Czech Republic
Latvia

-23%
-33%

−40%

−20%

0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
% change of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates (per 100,000 inhabitants)

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graduates (Figure 6.1.21). In the last decade, Germany

Similar to bachelor’s graduates, the United Kingdom(259%), Turkey (197%), and Spain (194%) have seen theleads Europe in producing new master’s graduates ingreatest percentage growth in new informatics, CS, CE,

informatics, CS, CE, and IT, with approximately 20,000

and IT master’s graduates (Figure 6.1.22).

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s graduates by country in Europe, 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United Kingdom

19,965Germany

11,092

Poland

4,271

Italy

3,883

Spain

3,214

Turkey2,677

Romania

2,200

Netherlands

1,953

Ireland

1,620

Czech Republic

1,589

Finland

1,458

Austria

1,327

Switzerland

1,202

Portugal

1,109

Norway
0

770
2,000

4,000

6,000

8,000

10,00012,00014,00016,00018,00020,000

Number of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s graduates
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2012 vs. 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Germany

259%

Turkey

197%

Spain

194%

Norway191%

Switzerland

148%

Netherlands

147%

Ireland140%

United Kingdom

139%

Portugal

61%

Finland

60%

Austria

54%

Italy

46%

PolandCzech Republic

8%
-36%

−30%

0%

30%

60%
90%
120%
150%
180%
% change of new informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s graduates

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Per capita metrics paint a somewhat similar picture. Ireland has the most informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s
graduates on a per capita basis (31.2), followed by the United Kingdom (29.8) and Estonia (27.4) (Figure 6.1.23).
On a per capita basis, Germany (243%) has also seen the greatest growth of informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s
graduates in the last decade (Figure 6.1.24).

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s graduates per 100,000 inhabitants by country in Europe, 2022

Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Ireland

31.19

United Kingdom

29.79

Estonia27.38

Finland26.20

Czech Republic

14.68

Austria

14.57

Norway14.03

Switzerland

13.64

Germany

13.15

Denmark

12.66

Poland

11.62

Romania

11.55

Netherlands

10.96

Bulgaria

10.70

Portugal
0

10.59
5

10

15

20

25

30

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s graduates (per 100,000 inhabitants)
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Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Germany

243%

Estonia

189%

Norway167%

Netherlands

132%

United Kingdom

128%

Switzerland

127%

Ireland

113%

Bulgaria

80%

Portugal

61%

Finland56%

Denmark

56%

Austria

43%

PolandCzech Republic

11%
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6.1.25). In the last decade, Turkey has seen the greatest

The United Kingdom (1,060) and Germany (910) also

growth in new CS, CE, and information PhD graduates

produced the most informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD(Figure 6.1.26).

graduates in 2022, followed by Italy (581) (Figure

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates by country in Europe, 2022
Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

United Kingdom

1,060

Germany

910

Italy

581

Spain

479

Turkey298

Czech Republic

150

Netherlands

120

Switzerland

116

Finland

114

Austria

96

Portugal

72

Ireland65

Romania47

Estonia

26

Bulgaria

24

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Turkey173%

Estonia86%

Bulgaria

60%

United Kingdom

18%

Spain

14%

Italy

12%

Switzerland

12%

Portugal

3%

Germany

1%

Ireland-4%

Finland-18%

Czech Republic-19%

Austria

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Finland has the greatest number of new informatics,

capita basis, the growth rate of new informatics, CS,

CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates per capita. For every

CE, and IT PhDs has been relatively marginal in several

100,000 inhabitants, it has 2.1 informatics, CS, CE,

major European countries such as the United Kingdom,

and IT PhD graduates (Figure 6.1.27). Estonia slightly

Portugal, and Switzerland (Figure 6.1.28).

trails (1.9), as does the United Kingdom (1.6). On a per

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates per 100,000 inhabitants by country in Europe, 2022

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Finland

2.05

Estonia1.90

United Kingdom

1.58

Czech Republic

1.39

Switzerland

1.32

Ireland1.25

Germany

1.08

Austria

1.05

Spain

1.00

Italy

0.99

Portugal

0.69

Netherlands

0.67

Latvia0.64

Bulgaria

0.37

Turkey
0.00

0.35
0.30

0.60

0.90

1.20

1.50

1.80

2.10

New informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates (per 100,000 inhabitants)
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Source: Informatics Europe, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Turkey142%

Bulgaria

81%

Estonia

79%

Italy

14%

United Kingdom

12%

Spain

10%

Portugal

3%

Switzerland

2%

Germany-4%

Latvia-8%

Ireland-15%

Finland-20%

Czech Republic-22%

Austria

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AI-Related Study Programs
Tracking the number of AI-related courses provides
insight into the educational interest in AI. This section
highlights data from Studyportals, an international
platform monitoring English-language university
study programs worldwide. Their portal encompasses
information on over 200,000 courses at more than
3,750 educational institutions across 110 countries.6

Total Courses
A study program, or degree program, comprises a
series of courses designed to enable students to earna relevant qualification, such as a degree or diploma.
The number of English-language AI-related study
programs has tripled since 2017, demonstrating aconsistent yearly increase over the last five years(Figure 6.1.29). This trend indicates a steadily growing
educational interest in AI.

Number of AI university study programs in English in the world, 2017–23
Number of AI university study programs in English (in thousands)

Source: Studyportals, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

3.00

2.52

2.50

2.32
2.16

2.00
1.64
1.45

1.50
1.17
1.00

0.88

0.50

0.00

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023
Figure 6.1.29

6 Currently, Studyportals, the company supplying data on AI university study programs, tracks only English-language AI courses. In the coming years, the Index plans to extend its coverage toinclude non-English programs.

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Broken down by educational level, the majority of AI study programs are offered at the master’s level (55.0%),
followed by the bachelor’s level (39.8%), and finally at the PhD level (5.3%) (Figure 6.1.30).

AI university study programs in English (% of total) by education level, 2023
Source: Studyportals, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report60%

AI university study programs in English (% of total)

54.97%
50%

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Geographic Distribution

the sample, there was a greater number of AI university

In 2023, the United Kingdom had the greatest

study programs in 2023 than in 2022. Malta, the United

number of English-language AI study programs (744)Kingdom, and Cyprus had the greatest number of(Figure 6.1.31). Next was the United States (667) andEnglish-language AI university study programs per

Canada (89). For virtually every country included incapita in 2023 (Figure 6.1.32).7

Number of AI university study programs in English by geographic area, 2022 vs. 2023
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United Kingdom
United States

630

Canada89 (+2%)87

Australia

84 (+1%)
83

Germany
FranceNetherlands

667 (+6%)

80 (+54%)52

69 (+15%)60
59 (+7%)55

India

45 (+2%)44

Ireland

44 (+5%)42Spain

43 (+13%)
38

Italy

40 (+21%)
33

Malaysia

39 (+8%)36

United Arab Emirates

38 (+36%)
28

Sweden37 (+16%)
32

China

32 (-16%)38

0744 (+12%)

665

2023
2022

100

200

300
400
500
Number of AI university study programs in English

600

700

800
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7 Although the United Kingdom has fewer universities overall compared to the United States, it likely reports a higher number of AI study programs for several reasons. Firstly, Studyportals
has slightly greater coverage of the United Kingdom than the United States in its data. Secondly, the structure of higher education in the United States tends to be more generalist comparedto the United Kingdom, meaning students studying AI might be enrolled in broader computer science programs that are not explicitly identified as AI study programs.

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AI university study programs in English per 100,000 inhabitants by geographic area, 2022 vs. 2023

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Malta
United Kingdom

0.99

0.98 (-11.56%)
1.11

Cyprus

0.85 (+2.05%)
0.83

Ireland0.52 (+13.31%)
0.46

Lithuania
United Arab Emirates

0.30

0.40 (+34.63%)

Sweden0.35 (+14.86%)
0.31

Finland0.34 (+11.45%)
0.31

Netherlands

0.33 (+5.94%)
0.31

Australia

0.32 (-0.45%)
0.32
0.27 (+5.90%)
0.26

NorwayLatviaIceland0.16

0.27 (+66.02%)
0.26 (-2.97%)
0.27

Canada0.22 (-0.86%)
0.22

United States

0.20 (+5.87%)
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2023
2022

0.50
1.00
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This section presents trends in high school CS education in the United States as a representation of K–12 AI education.

6.2 K–12 CS and AI Education
States requiring that all high schools offer a foundational CS course,
2023

United States
Data on the state of K–12
CS education in the United

Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

ME

AK

States comes from Code.
org, an education innovation
nonprofit dedicated toensuring that every school
includes CS as part of its core
K–12 education.

CA

NY

CT

RI

ND

SD

MN

WI

MI

OR

ID

WY

NE

IA

IL

IN

OH

PA

NJ

NV

UT

CO

KS

MO

KY

WV

DC

MD

DE

AZ

NM

OK

AR

TN

VA

NC

TX

LA

MS

AL

GA

SC

required that all high schools
HI

Yes
No

FL

Figure 6.2.1

The percentage of publicschools offering CS courses
varies significantly from state
to state (Figure 6.2.2). The

Public high schools teaching foundational CS (% of total in state),
2023
Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report
ME
66%

AK
51%

top three states in terms ofpercentage of CS offerings
are Maryland (99%),
Arkansas (99%), and Nevada(96%); the bottom three are
Minnesota (28%), Montana(34%), and Louisiana (35%).

CA
45%

HI
77%

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CS (Figure 6.2.1).

NH

WA

State-Level Trends

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76%

NH
81%

MA
83%

NY
58%

CT
84%

RI
86%

WA
47%

MT
34%

ND
47%

SD
44%

MN
28%

WI
56%

MI
55%

OR
64%

ID
38%

WY
63%

NE
50%

IA
84%

IL
54%

IN
91%

OH
62%

PA
68%

NJ
89%

NV
96%

UT
77%

CO
54%

KS
36%

MO
50%

KY
79%

WV
78%

DC
45%

MD
99%

DE
40%

AZ
36%

NM
50%

OK
62%

AR
99%

TN
64%

VA
75%

NC
71%

TX
54%

LA
35%

MS
78%

AL
95%

GA
71%

SC
94%

FL
40%

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K–12 CS education is expanding in the United States (Figure 6.2.3). In 2017, only a few states supported highschool CS programs. Now, approximately two-thirds of states require that CS be taught in high schools,
allocate funding for it, and have developed state plans for CS education.

Changes over time in state-level US K–12 CS education
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36, Allocate funding

35

30, Adopted state plan
29, Require CS course

Number of U.S. states

30

25

20

15

10

5

0

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023
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201,000 exams were administered, marking an 11.1%

The state of K–12 CS education in the United States

increase from 2021 (Figure 6.2.4). Since 2007, thecan also be observed by analyzing trends in the total

number of AP CS exams administered has increased

number of AP CS exams. In 2022, approximately

more than tenfold.

8

Number of AP computer science exams taken, 2007–22
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201.61

Number of AP computer science exams taken (in thousands)

200
179.19181.042020

2021

158.56150130.90

99.87

100

54.38
46.34

50

0

37.33
19.39

19.83

20.96

19.39

21.14

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

24.78

2012

29.55

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2022
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8 There are two types of AP CS exams: Computer Science A and Computer Science Principles. Data on computer science exams taken includes both exams. AP CS Principles was initiallyoffered in 2017.

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In 2022, California (33,262),
Texas (20,901), and Florida

Number of AP computer science exams taken, 2022
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ME
287

AK
157

(16,248) were the leadingstates in terms of the numberVT
114

of AP CS exams taken (Figure
6.2.5). On the other end,

SD
40

MN
1,811

WI
MI
2,223 4,919

OR
891

ID
514

WY
107

NE
530

IA
645

OH
PA
NJ
IL
IN
9,778 2,979 3,968 6,230 10,433

NVCA
33,262 2,476

UT
632

CO
3,077

KS
345

MO
KY
1,398 1,832

AZ
1,881

NM
445

OK
629

VA
TN
NC
AR
1,500 2,347 6,142 6,880

New Jersey (112.7), andTX
LA
20,901 987

Massachusetts (92.7) ranked
CS exams taken (Figure 6.2.6).

RI
752

ND
100

Per capita, Maryland (126.5),

highest in the number of AP

NYCT
15,189 3,241

MT39(40), and North Dakota (100)fewest exams were taken.

MA
6,470

WA
4,755

Montana (39), South Dakota
are the states where the

NH
526

MS
791

HI
720

WV
326

DC
403

MD
7,796

DE
616

SC
GA
AL
2,983 8,195 2,103
FL
16,248Figure 6.2.5

Number of AP computer science exams taken per 100,000 inhabitants,
2022
Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report
ME
20.66

AK
21.41

VT
NH
MA
17.62 37.60 92.66
WA
61.08

MT
3.47

OR
21.02

WY
NE
ID
IA
26.51 18.40 26.93 20.16

ND
12.84

UT
NV
CA
CO
85.20 77.92 18.69 52.68

SD
4.40

KS
11.75

WI
MN
MI
31.69 37.74 49.03

NY
77.21

RI
CT
89.81 68.75

OH
PA
NJ
IL
IN
77.71 43.60 33.74 48.03 112.66

WV
MO
MD
KY
DC
DE
22.63 40.61 18.38 60.06 126.48 60.42

VA
TN
OK
NM
NC
AZ
AR
25.54 21.06 15.65 49.24 33.30 70.77 64.32
TX
LA
69.60 21.51
HI
50.02

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MS
GA
AL
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Schools o ering foundational CS courses by size,
2023
Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Code.org data suggests that factors such90%

as school size and location significantly

80%

influence CS education accessibility.

schools (500–1,200 students), with the% of schools

offer CS courses than medium-sized

75%

70%

Large schools (over 1,200 students)
are 15 percentage points more likely to

90%

gap widening further when compared

60%
50%
40%

41%

30%

to small schools (under 500 students)(Figure 6.2.7). Similarly, students in20%

suburban districts have better access10%

to CS courses than their counterparts in0%both urban and rural areas (Figure 6.2.8).

Small

MediumLarge
Figure 6.2.7

Schools o ering foundational CS courses bygeographic area, 2023
Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

70%

60%

67.21%

54.73%

54.62%% of schools

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

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ChatGPT Usage Among Teachers and Students
The introduction of generative AI
tools, including ChatGPT, has sparked

ChatGPT usage rate among American K–12 teachers,
2023
Source: Impact Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportsignificant debate regarding their63%

potential applications in education.

60%

Some individuals have raised concerns

51%
50%

that these tools could be misuseda reevaluation of the ways in which
American students may be taught.

Usage rate

for plagiarism, potentially promptingThis year, Impact Research, funded by

40%

30%

20%

the Walton Family Foundation, carriedout a series of surveys on American

10%

teachers’ and educators’ perceptions
and use of ChatGPT.9 The surveys

0%

revealed that a majority of K–12 teachers
in the United States are already utilizing
ChatGPT, with usage increasing over2023-Mar2023-Jul
Figure 6.2.9

ChatGPT usage purposes among American K–12
teachers, 2023
Source: Impact Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

the year: In March 2023, 51% of teachersreported having used ChatGPT at least
once, and by July 2023, that figure had

Coming up withcreative class ideas

30%

Lesson planning30%

teachers who reported using ChatGPT,
30% employed it for lesson planning,another 30% for generating new creativeclass ideas, and 27% for enhancing their

Usage purpose

risen to 63% (Figure 6.2.9). Among thebackground knowledge (Figure 6.2.10).
Building backgroundknowledge

0%

27%

10%

20%
Usage rate

30%
Figure 6.2.10

9 To learn more about the surveys, including their methodologies, please visit the following links: March 2023 and July 2023.

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ChatGPT perceptions among educational users, 2023

overwhelmingly positive attitudes toward

Source: Impact Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Teachers

ChatGPT. According to the March 2023

Students

survey, 88% of the teachers believethat ChatGPT has a positive impact, a88%
ChatGPT has had
a positive impact

sentiment echoed by 79% of the students
76% of teachers and 65% of students feelthat ChatGPT is important to incorporate

79%
Statement

surveyed (Figure 6.2.11). Furthermore,

into the educational process. This recent
data indicates that tools like ChatGPT
are poised to become a staple in the

76%
ChatGPT is important
to incorporate
65%

American educational landscape in theforeseeable future.

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

% of respondents that “agree”
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U.S. Regulation

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Overview

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By Relevance394

By Agency

395

7.1 Overview of AI Policy in 2023

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7.2 AI and Policymaking

376

By Approach

396

Global Legislative Records on AI

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By Subject Matter

397

Overview

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EU Regulation

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By Geographic Area

378

Overview

398

By Relevance379

By Relevance399

By Approach380

By Agency

400

By Subject Matter

381

By Approach

401

U.S. Legislative Records

382

By Subject Matter

402

Federal Level

382

State Level

383

7.5 U.S. Public Investment in AI

403

AI Mentions

385

Federal Budget for AI R&D

403

Overview

385

U.S. Department of Defense Budget Requests 405

U.S. Committee Mentions

388

U.S. Government AI-Related Contract Spending

7.3 National AI Strategies

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By Geographic Area

391

406

AI Contract Spending406

Microelectronics and Semiconductor
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Overview
AI’s increasing capabilities have captured policymakers’ attention. Over the past year,
several nations and political bodies, such as the United States and the European Union,
have enacted significant AI-related policies. The proliferation of these policies reflect
policymakers’ growing awareness of the need to regulate AI and improve their respective
countries’ ability to capitalize on its transformative potential.
This chapter begins examining global AI governance starting with a timeline of significant
AI policymaking events in 2023. It then analyzes global and U.S. AI legislative efforts,
studies AI legislative mentions, and explores how lawmakers across the globe perceiveand discuss AI. Next, the chapter profiles national AI strategies and regulatory efforts
in the United States and the European Union. Finally, it concludes with a study of public
investment in AI within the United States.

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1. The number of AI regulations in the United States sharply increases. The number of AI-related
regulations in the U.S. has risen significantly in the past year and over the last five years. In 2023, there were
25 AI-related regulations, up from just one in 2016. Last year alone, the total number of AI-related regulations
grew by 56.3%.

2. The United States and the European Union advance landmark AI policy action. In 2023,
policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic put forth substantial AI regulatory proposals. The European Union
reached a deal on the terms of the AI Act, a landmark piece of legislation enacted in 2024. Meanwhile, President
Biden signed an Executive Order on AI, the most notable AI policy initiative in the United States that year.

3. AI captures U.S. policymaker attention. The year 2023 witnessed a remarkable increase in AI-related
legislation at the federal level, with 181 bills proposed, more than double the 88 proposed in 2022.

4. Policymakers across the globe cannot stop talking about AI. Mentions of AI in legislative
proceedings across the globe have nearly doubled, rising from 1,247 in 2022 to 2,175 in 2023. AI was mentioned in
the legislative proceedings of 49 countries in 2023. Moreover, at least one country from every continent discussed
AI in 2023, underscoring the truly global reach of AI policy discourse.

5. More regulatory agencies turn their attention toward AI. The number of U.S. regulatory agencies
issuing AI regulations increased to 21 in 2023 from 17 in 2022, indicating a growing concern over AI regulation
among a broader array of American regulatory bodies. Some of the new regulatory agencies that enacted AIrelated regulations for the first time in 2023 include the Department of Transportation, the Department of Energy,
and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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This chapter begins with an overview of some of the most significant AI-related policy events in 2023, as selected by
the AI Index Steering Committee.

7.1 Overview of AI Policy in 2023
Jan. 10,2023

China introduces regulation on administrationof deep synthesis of the internet
China introduces regulations aimed at “deep synthesis”
technology to tackle security issues related to the creationof realistic virtual entities and multimodal media, including“deepfakes.” These regulations apply to both providers andSource: China Talk, 20221
Figure 7.1.1

users across different media and mandate measures, suchas preventing illegal content, adhering to legal compliance,
verifying user identities, securing consent for biometric editing,safeguarding data security, and enforcing content moderation.

Mar. 22,2023

U.S. legislators propose AI for National Security Act
This legislation clarifies and solidifies the Department of
Defense’s (DoD) authority to acquire AI-based endpoint
security tools, enhancing its cyber-defense capabilities.
It aims to enable the DoD to employ AI for the automatic
detection and mitigation of threats to its networks and digital
infrastructure. This bipartisan initiative ensures the DoD canadopt innovative commercial technologies to strengthen its

Source: Brookings, 2018
Figure 7.1.2

cyber defenses, matching the pace of adversaries.

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U.S. policymakers introduce AI Leadership
Training Act
This legislation aims to enhance AI literacy among federal
leaders in response to AI’s widespread adoption acrossgovernment agencies. It mandates the director of the Officeof Personnel Management (OPM) to create and periodicallyrefresh an AI training program, promoting responsible andSource: Fox News, 2023
Figure 7.1.3

ethical AI usage within the federal government. Building on
previous laws, the initiative expands AI training to include
federal employees involved in procuring AI technologies forgovernment use.

Jun. 20,
2023

U.S. policymakers propose National AI
Commission Act
The National AI Commission Act calls for establishing a
National AI Commission tasked with crafting a comprehensive
AI regulatory framework. Highlighting the importance ofexpert input due to AI’s rapid innovation and complexity, thisbipartisan initiative focuses on mitigating risks, preserving

Source: Nextgov, 2023
Figure 7.1.4

U.S. leadership in AI research and development, and ensuringconsistency with American values.

Jul. 06,
2023

House of Representatives advances Jobs of the
Future Act
The bill endorses a study to evaluate industries andoccupations anticipated to grow due to AI, assess its
effects on workers’ skills or potential replacement,
examine stakeholder influence opportunities, identify
the demographics most impacted, evaluate the required

Source: LSE Business Review, 2019
Figure 7.1.5

skills and education, review data accessibility, investigate
efficient skill delivery methods, and explore the role ofacademic institutions in offering critical training.

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U.S. Senate puts forward Artificial Intelligence andBiosecurity Risk Assessment Act
The act mandates the assistant secretary for preparedness
and response to assess and address threats to public healthand national security from technical advancements in
artificial intelligence. It emphasizes evaluating the potential
use of AI, including open-source models, for developing
harmful agents. The proposed initiatives include monitoring

Source: Clinical Trials Arena, 2023
Figure 7.1.6

global biological risks and integrating risk assessment
summaries into the National Health Security Strategy.

Jul.21,
2023

Private AI labs sign voluntary White House AI
commitments
The Biden-Harris administration obtains voluntary pledges
from seven major AI firms—Google, Microsoft, Meta,
Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Inflection—to promote thedevelopment of AI that is safe, secure, and reliable. These
commitments involve conducting internal and external
security assessments of AI systems prior to launch, sharing
information on identified risks, enabling public reporting ofSource: Medium, 2023
Figure 7.1.7

issues, and disclosing when content is AI-generated.

Jul. 25,
2023

U.S. Senate passes Outbound Investment
Transparency Act
This initiative aims to scrutinize U.S. investments incritical sectors, especially those involving China, witha focus on evaluating risks in crucial industries andtechnologies such as AI that impact national security.
The objective is to increase awareness of potential
vulnerabilities and risks linked to foreign access toAmerican technology in these domains.

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U.S. Senate proposes CREATE AI Act
The CREATE AI Act establishes the National Artificial
Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR), a national research
infrastructure to improve AI researchers’ and students’
access to essential resources. NAIRR offers compute,curated datasets, educational tools, and AI testbeds. It aims
to bolster the nation’s AI research capabilities by supporting
the testing and evaluation of AI systems.

Aug. 15,2023

Source: Stanford HAI, 2023
Figure 7.1.9

China updates cyberspace administration ofgenerative AI measures
China’s updated policy adopts a more targeted regulatory
approach, focusing on applications with public implications
rather than a blanket regulation. The amendments soften
the regulatory language, changing directives like “ensure
the truth, accuracy, objectivity, and diversity of the data”
to “employ effective measures to enhance the quality of
training data and improve its truth, accuracy, objectivity, andSource: South China Morning Post, 2023
Figure 7.1.10

diversity.” Additionally, the revised regulations encourage
generative AI development, shifting away from the priorpunitive focus.

Sep. 12,
2023

U.S. Senate puts forward Protect Elections from
Deceptive AI Act
The bipartisan bill seeks to prohibit the use of AI to creatematerially deceptive content that falsely represents
federal candidates in political advertisements. This act
addresses the risks of AI-driven disinformation in elections
by banning the distribution of materially deceptive AIgenerated audio or visual content related to candidates

Source: The Economist, 2023
Figure 7.1.11

running for federal office.

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U.K. proposes principles to guide competitive AI
markets and protect consumers
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority proposes
principles to foster competitive AI markets while ensuringconsumer protection. These principles are designed toguarantee accountability for AI outputs, maintain continuous
access to essential inputs, promote a diversity of business

Source: Science Business, 2022
Figure 7.1.12

models, provide businesses with choices, offer flexibility toswitch between models, and ensure fair practices to prevent
anticompetitive behavior.

Oct. 30,
2023

President Biden issues Executive Order on Safe,
Secure, and Trustworthy AI
The executive order establishes new benchmarks for AI safety,
security, privacy protection for Americans, advancement ofequity and civil rights, and the fostering of competition andinnovation. It mandates the creation of a national security
memorandum to guide the safe and ethical application of AI inmilitary and intelligence operations, ensuring the protection ofAmericans’ privacy and the cultivation of an open, competitive

Source: AP, 2023
Figure 7.1.13

AI market that emphasizes U.S. innovation. Additionally, the Department of Education is tasked
with addressing AI’s safe and responsible use in education, while the Federal Communications
Commission is encouraged to assess AI’s impact on telecommunications. The National Institute ofStandards and Technology (NIST) is instructed to formulate guidelines and best practices to support
industry consensus on developing and deploying secure, reliable, and ethical AI.

Oct. 30,
2023

Frontier AI taskforce releases second
progress report
The task force forms new alliances with leading AI
organizations and facilitates the development of the U.K.’s
AI Research Resource (AIRR), to be known as IsambardAI, an AI supercomputer designed for compute-intensive
safety research. Moreover, the report highlights the task
force’s initiatives to mitigate risks inherent in advanced

Source: PYMNTS, 2022
Figure 7.1.14

AI development and its partnerships with premier AI
companies to gain early access to their models.

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U.K. hosts AI Safety Summit (2023)
The UK AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park seeks to tackle
AI risks and promote global cooperation, culminating in
the Bletchley Declaration. This declaration, endorsed by 28
countries, including China and the United States, signifies
a significant global agreement on AI safety. The U.K. also
unveiled the world’s inaugural AI Safety Institute, dedicated tosafety assessments and research. Despite these developments,

Source: CGTN, 2023
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reactions are mixed, with certain experts advocating for morecomprehensive and ambitious policy measures.

Nov. 02,2023

U.K. announces AI Safety Institute
The AI Safety Institute, the first government-supported
entity dedicated to advancing AI safety in the public interest,
aims to safeguard the U.K. and humanity from unforeseen
AI advancements. Its goal is to build the sociotechnicalframework required to comprehend and govern the risks
associated with advanced AI. By conducting fundamental AI
safety research, the institute intends to enhance worldwide
comprehension of the dangers posed by advanced AI

Source: Gov.uk, 2024
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systems and create the technical tools vital for effective AI governance. Furthermore, it aspires toposition the U.K. as a global center for safety research, thereby reinforcing the nation’s strategic
investment in this critical technology.

Dec. 09,2023

Europeans reach deal on EU AI Act
European lawmakers reach a tentative deal on the AI Act.
The act establishes a risk-based regulatory framework for
AI, prohibiting systems with unacceptable risks, such as
behavioral manipulators, and classifying high-risk systems
into product-based and critical sectors. Generative AI, suchas ChatGPT, is required to adhere to transparency standards.
Meanwhile, low-risk AI, including deepfake technologies, isSource: Stanford HAI, 2023
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Global Legislative Records on AI
Overview
The AI Index analyzed legislation containing “artificial

count of AI-related bills passed since 2016. While theintelligence” in 128 countries from 2016 to 2023.2 Of

total dropped to 28 in 2023 from 39 in the previous

these, 32 countries have enacted at least one AI-related

year, the number of AI-related bills passed in 2023

bill (Figure 7.2.1).3 In total, the countries have passed

significantly exceeds the total passed in 2016.

148 AI-related bills. Figure 7.2.2 illustrates the annual

Number of AI-related bills passed into law by country, 2016–23
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0
1–5
6–10
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16–25
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2 The analysis of passed AI policies may undercount the number of actual bills, given that large bills can include multiple sub-bills related to AI; for example, the CHIPS and Science Act
passed by the United States in 2022.
3 The AI Index monitored AI-related bills passed in Hong Kong and Macao, despite these not being officially recognized countries. Thus, the Index covers a total of 130 geographic areas.
Laws passed by Hong Kong and Macao were counted in the overall tally of AI-related bills. This year, the Index expanded its country sample compared to previous years, resulting in adifference between the number of AI-related bills reported this year and those in prior reports.

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Figure 7.2.3 highlights the number of laws containing

Number of AI-related bills passed into law in selectcountries, 2023
Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportmentions of AI that were enacted in 2023. Belgium

Belgium

led with five laws, followed by France, South Korea,

France3South Korea

3

and the United Kingdom, each of which passed

5

United Kingdom

3three. Figure 7.2.4 shows the total number of laws

Argentina

2

passed since 2016. The United States (23) has passed

Portugal2

the most AI-related laws since 2016, followed by
Portugal (15), and Belgium (12).

Spain

2

Andorra1

Austria1

Hungary

1

Italy

1

Kazakhstan

1

Luxembourg

1

Russia1

United States

1
0

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United States

23

Portugal

15

Belgium

12

Spain

11

South Korea

11

Italy

10

Russia10

United Kingdom

8

France7

Austria

6

Philippines

5

Slovenia

3

Argentina

3

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Germany

3

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By Relevancea medium AI relevance. Low relevance AI bills

The AI Index team further disaggregated AI-related

merely mention AI in passing without a substantial

bills based on their relevance to AI, as not every billlegislative focus on AI. An example of a low relevancementioning AI prioritizes it equally. A bill deemed to

AI bill is the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch,have high relevance to AI is fundamentally focusedand Military Construction and Veterans Affairs

on AI-related policy, like the AI Training Act passed

Appropriations Act, 2019. This bill allocates fundingin 2022, which mandates AI training programs

to various federal agencies, and mentions AI primarily

for executive agency workers. Conversely, billsin the context of encouraging these agencies towith medium relevance incorporate significant AI

consider workforce training opportunities for sectors

policy elements but are not fundamentally focused

like cybersecurity, energy, and AI.

on AI-related matters. For example, the National

Figure 7.2.5 illustrates the distribution of AI-related

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022

bills passed into law globally in 2023, categorized

includes sections on AI performance metrics andby their relevance to AI. Out of 28 AI-related bills

AI capabilities development for the Department ofenacted, two were classified as having high relevance

Defense. However, because it has a broader focus,
namely authorizing various Defense Agency programs,
and is not completely centered on AI, it was assigned

to AI, while 18 were deemed to have medium
relevance.

Number of AI-related bills passed into law in select countries by relevance to AI, 2016–23

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By Approach

policymakers focus on expanding AI capabilities,

The AI Index also categorized AI-related bills as

imposing restrictions, or balancing both.

either expansive or restrictive. Expansive bills aim toenhance a nation’s AI capabilities, such as establishing

Figure 7.2.6 indicates a global trend toward regulatinga network of publicly accessible supercomputers.

AI usage, showing that, while the commitment to

Restrictive bills, on the other hand, impose limitations

enhancing AI capabilities remains, there is a growing

on AI usage, like setting rules for deploying facial

shift toward restrictive legislation. This change

recognition technology. A bill can be both, or neither.

suggests that legislators are increasingly focused on

Distinguishing between expansive or restrictive

mitigating the potential harms of AI’s integration intobills can highlight legislator priorities: whether

society.

4

Number of AI-related bills passed into law in select countries by approach, 2016–23

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Expansive

24

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4 The AI Index only categorized bills as being expansive or restrictive if they were identified as having medium or high AI relevance. Consequently, the totals depicted in Figure 7.2.5 may not
fully correspond with those presented earlier in the chapter.

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By Subject Matter
The AI Index’s global analysis of AI legislationin 2023 the distribution of primary topics amongclassifies bills by their primary subject matter

passed bills broadened significantly, encompassing

according to the typology used by the U.S. Congress

a diverse range of policy areas. Specifically, two bills

to classify American legislation. Historically,

were passed in each of the following categories:

economics and public finance have been thearmed forces and national security; civil rights andpredominant focus of AI-related legislation, reflecting

liberties, minority issues; commerce; education;

the fact that AI-related policymaking matters arelabor and employment; science, technology, andoften incorporated within budgetary bills related

communication. This diversity indicates that AI policy

to public appropriations (Figure 7.2.7). However,concerns are increasingly spanning various sectors.

5

Number of AI-related bills passed into law in select countries by primary subject matter, 2016–23
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Primary subject matter

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2017

2018

2019

2020

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2023

Armed forces and national security

0

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5 Similar to the classification of bills as either expansive or restrictive, only bills coded as having a medium or high relevance to AI were coded for their primary subject matter. Consequently,
not all AI-related bills featured in this section’s analysis have subject matter coding available.

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U.S. Legislative Records
Federal Level
Figure 7.2.8 illustrates the total number of passed

to 181 in 2023. This significant increase in U.S. AI-

versus proposed AI-related bills in the U.S. Congress,

related legislative activity likely reflects policymakers’

highlighting a significant increase in proposed

response to the increasing public awareness andlegislation. In the last year, the count of proposed AI-

capabilities of AI technologies, such as ChatGPT.

related bills more than doubled, rising from 88 in 2022

Number of AI-related bills in the United States, 2016–23 (proposed vs. passed)

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Number of AI-related bills passed into law in selectUS states, 2023

The AI Index also tracks data on the enactment of

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AI-related legislation at the state level. Figure 7.2.9

California

highlights the number of AI-related laws enacted

Virginia

75Marylandby U.S. states in 2023. California leads with seven3

North Dakota

2laws, followed by Virginia with five, and Maryland

Washington

2with three. Figure 7.2.10 displays the total amountWest Virginiaof legislation passed by states from 2016 to 2023.

2

Alabama1

Arizona1

California again tops the ranking with 13 bills,

Colorado1

followed by Maryland (10) and Washington (7).

Connecticut

1

Florida1

Georgia1

Illinois

1

Iowa

1

Louisiana

1
0

1

2

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Figure 7.2.9

Number of state-level AI-related bills passed into law in the
United States by state, 2016 23 (sum)Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

ME
0

AK
0

CA
13

WA
7

MT
0

ND
3

SD
0

MN
1

WI
0

MI
2

OR
0

ID
1

WY
0

NE
0

IA
1

IL
4

IN
0

NV
2

UT
4

CO
3

KS
0

MO
0

KY
1

WV
3

AZ
1

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1

OK
0

AR
0

TN
0

VA
6

NC
3

TX
2

LA
2

MS
2

AL
3

GA
1

SC
0

HI
1

OH
2

VT
4

NH
0

MA
6

NY
2

CT
1

RI
0

PA
0

NJ
2

MD
10

DE
0

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2
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Figure 7.2.11 displays the total number of state-levelproposed in 2022. A significantly greater proportion

AI-related bills proposed and passed in the Unitedof AI-related bills are enacted into law at the stateStates since 2016. In 2023, 150 total state-level bills

level in the United States, compared to the federal

were proposed, a significant increase from the 61 bills

level.

Number of state-level AI-related bills in the United States, 2016–23 (proposed vs. passed)

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Overview

Another barometer of legislative interest is the number

mentions of AI in legislative proceedings across theof mentions of artificial intelligence in governmental

globe, nearly doubling from 1,247 in 2022 to 2,175 inand parliamentary proceedings. The AI Index

2023. Since 2016, AI mentions in legislative discussions

conducted an analysis of the minutes or proceedings

have risen almost tenfold. This data suggests that theof legislative sessions in 80 countries that contain theemergence of AI systems such as ChatGPT in 2023

keyword “artificial intelligence” from 2016 to 2023.

has notably captured policymakers’ attention.

Figure 7.2.12 reveals a significant increase in the

6

Number of mentions of AI in legislative proceedings in 80 select countries, 2016–23

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2,175

Number of mentions

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0

2016

2017

2018

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Figure 7.2.12

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In 2023, the United Kingdom led in AI mentions within

When legislative mentions are aggregated fromits legislative proceedings (405), followed by the2016 to 2023, a somewhat similar trend emerges

United States (240) and Australia (227) (Figure 7.2.13).

(Figure 7.2.14). The United Kingdom is first, with 1,490

Out of 80 countries analyzed, 48 mentioned AI at leastmentions, followed by Spain (886) and the United

once. Moreover, AI discussions reached legislative

States (868).

platforms in at least one country from every continent
in 2023, underscoring the truly global reach of AI
policy discourse.

Number of mentions of AI in legislative proceedings by country, 2023
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1–55
56–120
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Figure 7.2.15 shows the frequency of AI mentions in

Mentions of artificial intelligence in committee

U.S. committee reports by legislative session from

reports by House and Senate committees serve as2001 to 2023. Mentions of AI have decreased for the

another indicator of legislative interest in AI in thecurrent 118th session; however, it is important to note

United States. Typically, these committees focus

that this session is only about halfway through, withon legislative and policy issues, investigations, andan end date set for January 2025. Continuing at theinternal matters.

current rate, the 118th legislative session is poised tosurpass all previous sessions in terms of AI mentions.

Mentions of AI in US committee reports by legislative session, 2001–23
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Figure 7.2.16 depicts AI mentions in the committee reports of the U.S. House of Representatives during the ongoing
118th congressional session. The Appropriations and Science, Space, and Technology committees feature thehighest number of AI mentions. Meanwhile, Figure 7.2.17 highlights AI mentions in Senate committee reports, with
Appropriations leading (9), followed by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (3).

Mentions of AI in committee reports of the US House of Representatives for the 118th congressionalsession, 2023
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Appropriations

7

Science, Space, and Technology

7

Rules

4

Energy and Commerce

3

Transportation and Infrastructure

2

Agriculture

1

Armed Services

1

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Appropriations

9

Homeland Security andGovernmental A airs

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2

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Figures 7.2.18 and 7.2.19 show the total number of mentions in committee reports from congressional sessions
occurring since 2001. The House and Senate Appropriations committees, which regulate expenditures of moneyby the federal government, lead their respective lists.

Mentions of AI in committee reports of the US House of Representatives, 2001–23 (sum)Source: AI Index, 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

52

Appropriations
34

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18

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12

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10

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9

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7

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6

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5

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25

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This section offers an overview of national AI strategies, which are policy plans created by governments to guidethe development and deployment of AI within their country. Monitoring trends in these strategies is important forassessing how countries prioritize the development and regulation of AI technologies. Sources include national orregional government websites, the OECD AI Policy Observatory (oecd.ai), and news reports.7

7.3 National AI Strategies
By Geographic Area

Figure 7.3.1 identifies countries that have either

Canada initiated the first national AI strategy inreleased or are in the process of developing a national

March 2017. To date, 75 national AI strategies have

AI strategy as of January 2024. Figure 7.3.2 lists the

been unveiled. The peak year was 2019, whencountries that are in the process of developing an AI

24 strategies were released. In 2023, eight new

strategy within the past three years. The list of new

strategies were added, from countries in the Middle

countries developing national AI strategies include:

East, Africa, and the Caribbean, showcasing the

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belarus, Costa Rica,

worldwide expansion of AI policymaking discourse.

Jamaica, Pakistan, and Senegal. Figure 7.3.3 provides atimeline of the release of national AI strategies.

Countries with a national strategy on AI, 2023
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ReleasedIn development
Not released
Figure 7.3.1

7 The AI Index research team made efforts to identify whether there was a national AI strategy that was released or in development for every nation in the world. It is possible that somestrategies were missed.

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AI national strategies in development by country
and year
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Year

Country2021

Andorra, Armenia, Cuba, Iceland, Morocco, New Zealand

2022

Kenya

2023

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belarus, Costa Rica, Jamaica,
Pakistan, Senegal

Yearly release of AI national strategies by country
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Year

Country

2017

Canada, China, Finland

2018

France, Germany, India, Mauritius, Mexico, Sweden

2019

Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Japan, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Romania,
Russia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovak Republic, United ArabEmirates, United States of America, Uruguay

2020

Algeria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Latvia,
South Korea, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Spain,
Switzerland

2021

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Peru,
Philippines, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom, Vietnam2022

Belgium, Ghana, Iran, Italy, Jordan, Thailand

2023

Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Benin, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia,
Iraq, Israel, Rwanda

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The advent of AI has garnered significant attention from regulatory agencies—federal bodies tasked with regulating
sectors of the economy and steering the enforcement of laws. This section examines AI regulations within the UnitedStates and the European Union. Unlike legislation, which establishes legal frameworks within nations, regulations aredetailed directives crafted by executive authorities to enforce legislation. In the United States, prominent regulatory
agencies include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Federal
Communications Commission (FCC). Since the specifics of legislation often manifest through regulatory actions,
understanding the AI regulatory landscape is essential in order to develop a deeper understanding of AI policymaking.

7.4 AI Regulation
U.S. Regulationfrom nearly all branches of the American government,
encompassing more than 436 agencies.8

This section examines AI-related regulations enacted
by American regulatory agencies between 2016 andOverview

2023. It provides an analysis of the total number of

The number of AI-related regulations has risen

regulations, as well as their topics, scope, regulatory

significantly, both in the past year and over the last fiveintent, and originating agencies. To compile thisyears (Figure 7.4.1). In 2023, there were 25 AI-relateddata, the AI Index team performed a keyword search

regulations, a stark increase from just one in 2016. Last

for “artificial intelligence” on the Federal Register, ayear alone, the total number of AI-related regulations

comprehensive repository of government documents

grew by 56.3%.

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example is the Securities and Exchange Commission’s

The AI Index categorized AI-related regulations—

Cybersecurity Risk Management Strategy, Governance,

those mentioning AI—into three levels of relevance:and Incident Disclosure, which establishedlow, medium, and high. In 2023, the number ofstandardized disclosure practices for public companies

high and medium relevance AI-related regulations

concerning cybersecurity risk management, strategy,

increased compared to 2022. For instance, a highgovernance, and incidents.

9relevance AI regulation was the Copyright Office

Figure 7.4.2 categorizes AI-related regulations in theand Library of Congress’ Copyright Registration

United States based on their relevance to AI. A growing

Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated byproportion of these regulations is highly relevant to

Artificial Intelligence. This policy statement clarified

AI. Among the 25 AI-related regulations enacted inregistration practices for works incorporating AIgenerated material. Meanwhile, a medium-relevance2023, four were identified as being highly relevant, thegreatest amount since tracking began in 2016.

Number of AI-related regulations in the United States by relevance to AI, 2016–23

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9 A high relevance regulation focuses entirely on AI or AI-related issues. A medium relevance regulation includes meaningful mentions of AI but is not solely centered on it. A low relevance
regulation mentions AI in passing, without a significant focus on AI-related matters.

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Which agencies are the primary sources of AI(Figure 7.4.3). Furthermore, the number of agencies

regulations? In 2023, the Executive Office of theissuing AI regulations increased from 17 in 2022 to 21 in

President and the Commerce Department led with

2023, indicating a growing need for clarity and concern

five AI-related regulations each, followed by theregarding AI among a broader array of American

Health and Human Services Department and theregulatory bodies.

Industry and Security Bureau, with each issuing four

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10 Regulations can originate from multiple agencies, so the annual totals in Figure 7.4.3 may exceed those in Figure 7.4.1.

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restriction (Figure 7.4.4). In 2023, there were 10

The AI Index categorized regulations based on theirrestrictive AI regulations compared to just three thatapproach: whether they expanded or restricted AI

were expansive. Conversely in 2020, there were fourcapabilities. Over time, the trend in AI regulations

regulations that were expansive and one that wasin the United States has shifted significantly toward

restrictive.

11

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11 Expansive regulations refer to actions by regulatory agencies or governments aimed at augmenting AI capacity, including investments in supercomputing infrastructure. Restrictive
regulations involve steps to curtail AI capabilities, such as imposing restrictions on the use of facial recognition algorithms. Restrictive AI regulations may also be intended to address
underlying policy concerns, such as AI’s potential impact on citizens’ civil liberties. According to this coding typology, a regulation can be classified as both expansive and restrictive, or it may
fit neither category. The AI Index assigned the labels “expansive” or “restrictive” only to regulations deemed to have medium to high relevance to AI. Therefore the regulation totals in Figure
7.4.4 are less than those reported earlier in the section.

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By Subject MatterIn 2023, American AI regulations were categorized by

topics tied for second place, with two occurrences

primary subject matter. The most prevalent subject

each: health; commerce; and science, technology, andmatter in AI-related regulation was foreign trade andcommunications (Figure 7.4.5).

international finance, with three instances. Three

Number of AI-related regulations in the United States by primary subject matter, 2016–23

Primary subject matter

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12 The AI Index team used Congress’ policy categorization typology. Only regulations that have medium and high AI relevance were coded for their primary subject matter.

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regulatory authority. The search for AI-related regulation

The AI Index also gathered information on AI-related
regulations enacted in the European Union between
2017 and 2023. To compile this data, the Index
team conducted a keyword search for “artificial

in the European Union was limited to legal acts,
international agreements, and consolidated texts. The
same methodological approach was used to code EU
regulations, as was used to code U.S. regulations.13

intelligence” on EUR-Lex, a comprehensive database

Overview

of EU legislation, regulations, and case law. EUR-

The number of AI-related regulations passed by theLex provides access to a wide range of regulatory

European Union increased from 22 in 2022 to 32 indocuments, such as legal acts, consolidated texts,

2023 (Figure 7.4.6). Despite this increase, the number

international agreements, preparatory documents,of AI-related regulations passed by the European

and legislative procedures. The analysis in this section

Union peaked in 2021 with 46.

focused exclusively on documents with binding

Number of AI-related regulations in the European Union, 2017–23
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Horizon Europe, a framework program for research

In 2021, the European Union passed its first highly

and innovation. Of the 32 regulations passed in

relevant AI-related regulations. These regulations

2023, two had high relevance to AI, 13 had medium

established the Digital Europe Programme andrelevance, and 17 had low relevance (Figure 7.4.7).

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The two most prominent originator agencies for European Union AI regulations in 2023 were the Council of theEuropean Union (13) and European Parliament (9) (Figure 7.4.8).14

Number of AI-related regulations in the European Union by institution and body, 2017–23

Institution and body

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Council of the European Union
DG Competition (EC)DG Connect (EC)
DG DEFIS (EC)
DG ECFIN (EC)
DG Energy (EC)DG FISMA (EC)DG GROW (EC)DG HOME (EC)DG JUST (EC)DG MOVE (EC)DG SANTE (EC)DG Trade (EC)EU-Egypt Association Council
EU-Moldova Association Council
Euratom
EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly
European Commission
European Parliament
Eurostat (EC)
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In recent years, AI-related regulation in the European Union has tended to take a more expansive approach (Figure
7.4.9). In 2023, there were eight regulations with a restrictive focus compared to 12 with an expansive one.

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By Subject MatterIn 2023, the most common subject matters forand resilient electoral processes in the Union and

AI-related regulations in the European Union wereenhancing the European nature and efficient conduct

science, technology, and communications (5);of the elections to the European Parliament. This

followed by government operations and politics (3)regulation acknowledged that AI could be used

(Figure 7.4.10). Regulations concerning government

to generate political misinformation and outlined

operations and politics involve setting rules forsteps the Commission has taken to ensure AI does

how governments and associated governmental

not challenge the legitimacy of elections. Evidently,

processes operate. One such regulation was theEuropean Union legislators are considering how AI

Commission Recommendation (EU) on inclusive

will impact their government’s work.

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7.5 U.S. Public Investment in AI
Federal Budget for AI R&D

information on classified AI R&D investment.

Every year in December, the National Science andAccording to the 2023 report, in the fiscal year 2023,

Technology Council publishes a report on the public

U.S. government agencies allocated a total of $1.8 billion

sector AI R&D budget across various departments

to AI research and development spending (Figure 7.5.1).

and agencies that participate in the Networking and

The funding for AI R&D has risen annually since FY 2018,

Information Technology Research and Development

more than tripling since then. For FY 2024, a larger(NITRD) Program and National Artificial Intelligencebudget of $1.9 billion has been requested.15

Initiative. These reports, however, do not include

US federal NITRD budget for AI, FY 2018–24
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Figure 7.5.2 details the breakdown of NITRD AI R&D budget requests by agency. For FY 2024, the National
Science Foundation (NSF) had the highest request at $531 million, followed by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) at $322.1 million, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at $284.5 million.
15 Previous editions of the NITRD report have included spending figures for past years that differ slightly from those reported in the most recent edition. The AI Index reports the spending
amounts documented in the latest NITRD reports.

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Budget Requests

development, test, and evaluation. According to its
2023 report, the DoD requested $1.8 billion in FY 2024,

Every year the DoD releases the amount of fundinga significant increase from the $1.1 billion that wasthey request for nonclassified AI-specific research,requested in FY 2023 (Figure 7.5.3).

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Contract Spending

volumes of federal contracts data, including prime
contracts, grants, and other transaction authority(OTA) awards. The use of AI models enables Govini toanalyze data that is otherwise often inaccessible.

Public investment in AI can also be measured byfederal government spending on the contracts

AI Contract Spending

awarded to private companies for goods andFigure 7.5.4 highlights total U.S. government spending

services. Such contracts typically occupy the largest

on AI, subdivided by various AI segments. From

share of an agency’s budget.

2022 to 2023, total AI spending increased marginally

Data in this section comes from Govini, which createda taxonomy of spending by the U.S. government on
critical technologies including AI. Govini applied
supervised machine learning and natural language
processing to parse, analyze, and categorize large

from $3.2 billion to $3.3 billion.16 Since 2018, total
spending has increased nearly 2.4 times. In 2023,
the AI subsegments that saw the greatest amount ofgovernment spending included machine learning ($1.5
billion) and computer vision ($1.0 billion).

US government spending in AI/ML and autonomy by segment, FY 2018–23
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Computer vision

Autonomy

Natural language processing

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Figure 7.5.5 shows U.S. government spending by AI segment in FY 2022 and FY 2023. Spending significantly
increased for machine learning. Computer vision and natural language processing spending also rose, albeit lessprominently.

US government spending in AI/ML and autonomy by segment, FY 2022 vs. 2023

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1.51 (+72%)

Machine learning
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In FY 2023, the majority of federal AI contracts were prime contracts (50.6%), followed by grants (47.6%) (Figure
7.5.6). In the last year, the share of contracts has declined, while the share of grants has increased.

Total value of contracts, grants, and OTAs awarded by the US government for AI/ML and autonomy,
FY 2018–23

Total value awarded (in billions of U.S. dollars)

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FIgure 7.5.7 visualizes U.S. government spending

Govini also monitors U.S. government

microelectronics has grown significantly in the last

microelectronics spending, which is becoming

year, increasing to $3.9 billion from $2.5 billion inincreasingly vital due to the crucial role that

2022. The large majority of American government

semiconductors, like GPUs, have played in powering

microelectronic spending is allocated as contracts

recent AI technical improvements. The way(Figure 7.5.8).

on microelectronics by segment. Total spending on

governments allocate funds for semiconductors is
poised to increase in geopolitical significance.

US government spending in microelectronics by segment, FY 2018–23
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4.00

Memory and processing

3.89

Semiconductor

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North America

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CS Bachelor’s Graduates

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CS Master’s Graduates

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CS PhD Graduates

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Disability Status of CS, CE, and Information Students

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CS, CE, and Information Faculty422

Europe425

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Women in Machine Learning (WiML) NeurIPS Workshop

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The demographics of AI developers often differ from those of users. For instance, aconsiderable number of prominent AI companies and the datasets utilized for model training
originate from Western nations, thereby reflecting Western perspectives. The lack of diversity
can perpetuate or even exacerbate societal inequalities and biases.
This chapter delves into diversity trends in AI. The chapter begins by drawing on data fromthe Computing Research Association (CRA) to provide insights into the state of diversity in
American and Canadian computer science (CS) departments. A notable addition to this year’s
analysis is data sourced from Informatics Europe, which sheds light on diversity trends within
European CS education. Next, the chapter examines participation rates at the Women in
Machine Learning (WiML) workshop held annually at NeurIPS. Finally, the chapter analyzes
data from Code.org, offering insights into the current state of diversity in secondary CS
education across the United States.
The AI Index is dedicated to enhancing the coverage of data shared in this chapter.
Demographic data regarding AI trends, particularly in areas such as sexual orientation, remains
scarce. The AI Index urges other stakeholders in the AI domain to intensify their endeavors to
track diversity trends associated with AI and hopes to comprehensively cover such trends infuture reports.

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1. U.S. and Canadian bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD CS students continue to grow more
ethnically diverse. While white students continue to be the most represented ethnicity among new resident
graduates at all three levels, the representation from other ethnic groups, such as Asian, Hispanic, and Black or
African American students, continues to grow. For instance, since 2011, the proportion of Asian CS bachelor’s
degree graduates has increased by 19.8 percentage points, and the proportion of Hispanic CS bachelor’s degree
graduates has grown by 5.2 percentage points.

2. Substantial gender gaps persist in European informatics, CS, CE, and IT graduates atall educational levels. Every surveyed European country reported more male than female graduates inbachelor’s, master’s, and PhD programs for informatics, CS, CE, and IT. While the gender gaps have narrowed inmost countries over the last decade, the rate of this narrowing has been slow.

3. U.S. K–12 CS education is growing more diverse, reflecting changes in both gender andethnic representation. The proportion of AP CS exams taken by female students rose from 16.8% in 2007 to
30.5% in 2022. Similarly, the participation of Asian, Hispanic/Latino/Latina, and Black/African American students
in AP CS has consistently increased year over year.

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8.1 AI Postsecondary Education
North America

CS Bachelor’s Graduates

Data on American and Canadian postsecondary CS

reached 22.2% in 2022, continuing a decade-longand AI postsecondary education comes from the

The percentage of female CS bachelor’s graduatesrise (Figure 8.1.1). Nonbinary/other-identifying CS

Computing Research Association’s (CRA) annual

bachelor’s graduates accounted for 0.1% in 2022.

Taulbee Survey.1 2

Gender of new CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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90%

New CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total)

80%

77.70%, Male

70%
60%
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40%
30%
22.20%, Female

20%
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Over the past decade, the number of CS bachelor’s graduates of all ethnicities has grown, notably 4.7 timesfor Hispanics and 2.5 times for African Americans (Figure 8.1.2). As a proportion of ethnicities among all CS
bachelor’s graduates, Asians have risen the fastest, doubling in the last 10 years (Figure 8.1.3).
1 The charts in this section look only at the ethnicity of domestic or native CS students and faculty. Although the CRA reports data on the proportion of nonresident aliens at each educational
level (i.e., bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, and faculty), data on the ethnicity of nonresident aliens is not included.
2 Not all PhD-granting departments targeted in the survey provided responses. Of the 297 departments targeted, only 182 responded, resulting in an overall response rate of 61%. The AI Index
advises against making per capita comparisons between the CRA North American data and the data on European CS graduates detailed in the subsequent sections due to the European data
being collected from national statistical offices, which affords it broader coverage.

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10,970, White

Number of new CS bachelor’s graduates

10,0008,795, Asian
8,000

6,000

4,000
2,708, Hispanic (any race)
2,000
1,072, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
1,004, Black or African American
33, American Indian or Alaska Native
28, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander

0
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Ethnicity of new resident CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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70%

New CS bachelor’s graduates (% of total)

60%

50%
44.58%, White40%
35.74%, Asian30%

20%
11.00%, Hispanic (any race)
4.36%, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
4.08%, Black or African American
0.13%, American Indian or Alaska Native
0.11%, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander

10%

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The proportion of female CS master’s graduates has seen minimal growth in the last decade, increasing
to 26.3% in 2022 from 24.6% in 2011. Additionally, in 2022, 0.08% of CS master’s graduates identified asnonbinary/other (Figure 8.1.4).

Gender of new CS master’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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80%
73.65%, Male

New CS master’s graduates (% of total)

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%
26.26%, Female
20%

10%
0.08%, Nonbinary/Other

0%
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Among North American students, the most represented ethnicities are white (47.9%), Asian (35.8%), andHispanic (8.2%) (Figure 8.1.5 and Figure 8.1.6). Similar to CS bachelor’s graduates, the pool of CS master’s
graduates has become increasingly ethnically diverse over the last decade.

Ethnicity of new resident CS master’s graduates in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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3,050, White

3,000

Number of new CS master’s graduates

2,500
2,278, Asian
2,000

1,500

1,000

522, Hispanic (any race)

500

269, Black or African American
222, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
22, American Indian or Alaska Native
8, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander

0
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Ethnicity of new resident CS master’s graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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New CS master’s graduates (% of total)

60%

50%

47.87%, White40%
35.76%, Asian
30%

20%

8.19%, Hispanic (any race)
4.22%, Black or African American
3.48%, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
0.35%, American Indian or Alaska Native
0.13%, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander

10%

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In 2022, the percentage of female PhD graduates in CS slightly decreased to 22.1% (Figure 8.1.7), but the longterm trend is unchanged.

Gender of new CS PhD graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2010–22
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80%

77.78%, Male

New CS PhD graduates (% of total)

70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
22.10%, Female

20%
10%

0.12%, Nonbinary/Other

0%
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From 2011 to 2022, the diversity among CS PhD graduates significantly increased (Figure 8.1.8 and Figure
8.1.9). In 2022, 41.1% of CS PhD graduates were Asian, Black, Hispanic, multiracial, American Indian, or Native
Hawaiian, marking a considerable rise from 2011.

Ethnicity of new resident CS PhD graduates in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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500

Number of new CS PhD graduates

400

327, White
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200
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100
28, Black or African American
26, Hispanic (any race)
7, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
2, American Indian or Alaska Native
1, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander

0
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Figure 8.1.8

Ethnicity of new resident CS PhD graduates (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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70%

New CS PhD graduates (% of total)

60%

58.92%, White

50%

40%

30%

29.55%, Asian20%
5.05%, Black or African American
4.68%, Hispanic (any race)
1.26%, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
0.36%, American Indian or Alaska Native
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Disability Status of CS, CE, and Information
Students

relatively low: 4.1% of bachelor’s, 1.5% of master’s,

For the second consecutive year, the CRA requested

accommodations (Figure 8.1.10). Year over year,

departments to report the number of students at eachthe proportion of students requesting disability

degree level who received disability accommodations

accommodations has remained consistent.

and 1.1% of PhD students indicated a need forover the preceding year. The reported numbers were

CS, CE, and information students (% of total) with disability accomodations in United States and Canada,
2021 vs. 2022
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2022

2021
4.10%

4.10%

CS, CE, and information students (% of total)

4%

3%

2%
1.50%

1%

0%

1.10%

1.00%

0.80%

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male (75.6%), with women comprising 24.3% andData regarding the ethnicity and gender of faculty

nonbinary individuals accounting for 0.1% (Figure

in CS, CE, and information fields highlight diversity

8.1.11). Although the proportion of female faculty intrends in academic AI and CS. As of 2022, a majority

these fields has risen since 2011, the increase hasof faculty members in CS, CE, and information are

been small.

Gender of CS, CE, and information faculty (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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75.60%, Male
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70%
60%
50%
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30%
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20%
10%
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While the majority of new faculty hires in CS, CE, and information at American and Canadian universities
remain male (71.7%), the proportion of women reached 28.0% in 2022 (Figure 8.1.12), well above the proportionof new female PhDs.

Gender of new CS, CE, and information faculty hires (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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New CS, CE, and information faculty hires (% of total)

80%
71.67%, Male

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

28.00%, Female

20%

10%

0%

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As of 2022, the majority of resident faculty in CS, CE, and information were white (57.3%), with Asian faculty
following at 30.1% (Figure 8.2.13 and Figure 8.1.14). The ethnic diversity gap is gradually closing: In 2011, the difference
between white faculty and the next largest ethnic group was 46.1%, but by 2021, it had narrowed to 27.2%.

Ethnicity of resident CS, CE, and information faculty in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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4,000

3,997, White

3,500
3,000
2,500
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2,000
1,500
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406, Unknown
207, Hispanic (any race)
176, Black or African American
47, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
29, Native Hawaiian or Paci c Islander
17, American Indian or Alaska Native

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Ethnicity of resident CS, CE, and information faculty (% of total) in the United States and Canada, 2011–22
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CS, CE, and information faculty (% of total)

60%
57.27%, White
50%

40%

30.09%, Asian

30%

20%
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2.97%, Hispanic (any race)
2.52%, Black or African American
0.67%, Multiracial (not Hispanic)
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EuropeData on diversity trends about European CS graduates

In all surveyed European countries, informatics,

comes from Informatics Europe.3

CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates are predominantly

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT Bachelor’s
Graduates
In the majority of surveyed European nations, there
is a persistent gender disparity among bachelor’slevel graduates in informatics, computer science,computer engineering, and information technology.

male. However, in nations such as the United
Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland, the gender
gap has narrowed over the last decade, with womenconstituting a growing share of PhD graduates (Figure
8.1.17).4 In contrast, countries like Finland and Spain
have seen the gap slightly widen.

Despite some narrowing since 2011, men continue todominate. For example, France (14.8%), the United
Kingdom (17.8%), and Germany (21.5%) show relatively
low proportions of female graduates in these fields(Figure 8.1.15). Bulgaria stands out among the surveyedcountries with the highest proportion of female
graduates (35.2%).

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT Master’s Graduates
Similar gender disparities are observed among
European informatics, CS, CE, and IT master’s
graduates, with a significantly greater proportion ofmales than females in most surveyed countries. As of2022, Estonia (42.0%), Romania (41.9%), and Bulgaria(40.4%) reported the greatest proportion of female
master’s graduates (Figure 8.1.16). In contrast, Belgium(13.7%), Italy (14.1%), and Switzerland (15.8%) reported
the smallest proportion of female master’s graduates.

Informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD Graduates

3 The year label refers to the year in which an academic year ends. For example, the figures visualizing new graduates for 2022 reflect the number of graduates reported for the 2021/2022
academic year. For the sake of visual simplicity, the Index opts to focus on the year in which students graduated.
4 In countries where the number of PhD graduates is relatively small, trends in gender proportions can be prone to sudden year-over-year changes. For example, in 2022 Bulgaria produced 24
total PhDs, Latvia 12, and Estonia 26.

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100%

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100%

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New informatics, CS, CE, and IT bachelor’s graduates (% of total)

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2013 2016 2019 2022

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85.53%
50%

2013 2016 2019 2022

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50%

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50%

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2013 2016 2019 2022

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85.68%

2013 2016 2019 2022

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2013 2016 2019 2022

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Portugal
81.24%

50%

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50%

2013 2016 2019 2022

18.49%
0%84.19%
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81.41%

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78.98%

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New informatics, CS, CE, and IT PhD graduates (% of total)

100%

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2013 2016 2019 2022
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France100%

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Germany

100%

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2013 2016 2019 2022

38.46%

2013 2016 2019 2022
Ireland82.31%

76.92%
50%

23.06%
0%2013 2016 2019 2022

0%76.94%

15.79%

61.54%

50%
18.67%

100%

50%

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81.33%

25.00%
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84.21%

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23.08%

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2013 2016 2019 2022
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86.11%

85.83%

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2013 2016 2019 2022
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68.09%

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100%

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Attendance at NeurIPS Women in Machine Learning
workshop, 2010–23
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1,400

Women in Machine Learning (WiML), founded in
2006, is an organization dedicated to supporting

714
600
400

Workshop Participants
Despite a decline in participation over the last200

two years, the 2023 NeurIPS WiML workshop

The recent drop in WiML workshop attendance
may be linked to the overall decrease in NeurIPS
attendance, which could be attributed to the shift
away from a purely virtual format.5 As a share of total

2023

2022

2021

2019

2020

2018

2017

2016

2010

than the attendance of 89 in 2010 (Figure 8.2.1).

2015

0

attendance of 714 was nearly eight times higher

2014

at NeurIPS.

800

2012

from the WiML annual technical workshop, hosted

1,000

2013

learning. This section of the AI Index presents data

Number of attendees

and increasing the impact of women in machine

1,200

2011

Women in Machine Learning(WiML) NeurIPS Workshop

Figure 8.2.1

Attendance at NeurIPS Women in Machine Learning
workshop (% of total), 2010–23
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10%

8%

6%
4.36%

4%

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

0%

2011

2%

2010

represented 4.4% of attendees (Figure 8.2.2).

Attendees at NeurIPS WiML (% of total)

conference attendance, the 2023 WiML workshop

Figure 8.2.2
5 Figure 8.1.1 accounts for total attendance, which in some conference years comprised both in-person and virtual attendance.

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where they live. Among respondents, 56.4% hailed

The data in the subsequent figures is derived fromfrom North America, followed by Europe (21.8%), Asia

a survey completed by participants who agreed to(11.4%), and Africa (8.9%) (Figure 8.2.3). At this year’s

aggregate their information. One component of theworkshop, there was a greater proportion of North

WiML survey asked attendees at the WiML workshop

American attendees than in 2022.

Continent of residence of participants at NeurIPS Women in Machine Learning workshop, 2022 vs. 2023
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56.43%

North
America

41.50%
21.79%

Europe34.20%
11.43%

Asia

17.10%
8.93%

Africa

3.40%
1.07%

Australia/
Oceania

1.40%

South 0.36%
America
1.60%
2023
Antarctica

0.00%

2022

0.20%

0%

10%

20%

30%
% of respondents

40%

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60%
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The majority of participants at the 2022 WiML workshop were female-identifying (84.2%), another 10.0% weremale-identifying, and 3.2% were nonbinary-identifying (Figure 8.2.4).

Gender breakdown of participants at NeurIPS Women in Machine Learning workshop, 2022 vs. 2023
Source: Women in Machine Learning, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

84.23%

Female37.00%
10.04%

Male

25.80%

Nonbinary/
3.23%
Genderqueer/
Third gender 0.50%

Prefer not to say

Questioning

1.43%
36.30%
0.72%

2023

Gender uid/ 0.36%
Gendernonconforming 0.40%
0%

2022

10%

20%

30%

40%
50%
% of respondents

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90%
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This section uses data from Code.org, a U.S. nonprofit dedicated to advancing CS education in K–12 schools across thecountry, to paint a picture of how AI diversity trends are reflected at the K–12 level.

8.3 K–12 Education
AP Computer Science: Gender
In 2022, male students accounted for 68.9% of AP CS

8.3.1).6 While male students continue to dominate

exam-takers, female students 30.5%, and students

AP CS exam participation, the proportion of female

identifying as neither male nor female 0.7% (Figure

students has nearly doubled over the past decade.

AP computer science exams taken (% of total) by gender, 2007–22
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AP computer science exams taken (% of total)

80%
70%

68.87%, Male

60%
50%
40%
30.46%, Female

30%
20%
10%

0.67%, Other

0%
2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022
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On a percentage basis, thestates with the highest numberof female AP CS test-takers
in 2022 were Mississippi

AP computer science exams taken by female students (% of total),
2022
Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report
ME
22%

AK
26%

(41%), Alabama (37%), andWashington, D.C. (37%) (Figure
8.3.2). California, Texas, andWashington, states known for
significant CS and AI activity,
also saw notable participation,

CA
31%

VT
23%

NH
26%

MA
31%

NY
36%

CT
29%

RI
23%

WA
31%

MT
33%

ND
18%

SD
20%

MN
24%

WI
22%

MI
29%

OR
26%

ID
27%

WY
23%

NE
25%

IA
18%

IL
33%

IN
24%

OH
27%

PA
28%

NJ
31%

NV
32%

UT
22%

CO
25%

KS
16%

MO
22%

KY
28%

WV
30%

DC
37%

MD
33%

DE
23%

AZ
25%

NM
25%

OK
26%

AR
30%

TN
30%

VA
29%

NC
30%

TX
31%

LA
34%

MS
41%

AL
37%

GA
29%

SC
33%

with approximately 30% of AP
CS exam-takers being female.

HI
30%

FL
31%
Figure 8.3.2

AP Computer Science:
Ethnicity

the largest group, the participation of Asian, Hispanic/
Latino/Latina, and Black/African American students
in AP CS exams has grown over time (Figure 8.3.3). In

Code.org’s data highlights the evolving ethnic

2022, white students constituted the largest share ofdiversity among AP CS test-takers. Similar to trends

exam-takers (38.2%), followed by Asian (27.8%) andin postsecondary CS, the ethnic diversity of AP CS

Hispanic/Latino/Latina students (17.6%) (Figure 8.3.3

test-takers is increasing. While white students remain

and Figure 8.3.4).

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AP computer science exams taken by race/ethnicity, 2007–22
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80,00077,070, White

Number of AP computer science exams taken

70,00060,00056,098, Asian
50,00040,00035,528, Hispanic/Latino/Latina
30,00020,00013,577, Black/African American
10,0009,293, Two or more races
1,285, Native American/Alaskan
295, Native Hawaiian/Paci c Islander0, Other02007 2008 2009 2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019 2020 2021

2022
Figure 8.3.3

AP computer science exams taken (% of total responding students) by race/ethnicity, 2007–22

AP computer science exams taken (% of total responding students)

Source: Code.org, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

60%

50%

40%

38.23%, White30%

27.82%, Asian20%

17.62%, Hispanic/Latino/Latina

10%

6.73%, Black/African American
4.61%, Two or more races
0.64%, Native American/Alaskan
0.15%, Native Hawaiian/Paci c Islander
0.00%, Other0%2007 2008 2009 2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

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2019 2020 2021

2022
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AI Products and Services439

AI and Jobs

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AI and Livelihood

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Overview
As AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous, it is important to understand how public
perceptions regarding the technology evolve. Understanding this public opinion is vital inbetter anticipating AI’s societal impacts and how the integration of the technology may
differ across countries and demographic groups.
This chapter examines public opinion on AI through global, national, demographic, andethnic perspectives. It draws upon several data sources: longitudinal survey data from Ipsos
profiling global AI attitudes over time, survey data from the University of Toronto exploring
public perception of ChatGPT, and data from Pew examining American attitudes regarding
AI. The chapter concludes by analyzing mentions of significant AI models on Twitter, using
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1. People across the globe are more cognizant of AI’s potential impact—and more nervous.
A survey from Ipsos shows that, over the last year, the proportion of those who think AI will dramatically affecttheir lives in the next three to five years has increased from 60% to 66%. Moreover, 52% express nervousness
toward AI products and services, marking a 13 percentage point rise from 2022. In America, Pew data suggeststhat 52% of Americans report feeling more concerned than excited about AI, rising from 38% in 2022.

2. AI sentiment in Western nations continues to be low, but is slowly improving. In 2022,
several developed Western nations, including Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Canada, andthe United States, were among the least positive about AI products and services. Since then, each of thesecountries has seen a rise in the proportion of respondents acknowledging the benefits of AI, with the Netherlands
experiencing the most significant shift.

3. The public is pessimistic about AI’s economic impact. In an Ipsos survey, only 37% of
respondents feel AI will improve their job. Only 34% anticipate AI will boost the economy, and 32% believe it will
enhance the job market.

4. Demographic differences emerge regarding AI optimism. Significant demographic
differences exist in perceptions of AI’s potential to enhance livelihoods, with younger generations generally
more optimistic. For instance, 59% of Gen Z respondents believe AI will improve entertainment options,versus only 40% of baby boomers. Additionally, individuals with higher incomes and education levels are more
optimistic about AI’s positive impacts on entertainment, health, and the economy than their lower-income andless-educated counterparts.

5. ChatGPT is widely known and widely used. An international survey from the University of Toronto
suggests that 63% of respondents are aware of ChatGPT. Of those aware, around half report using ChatGPT atleast once weekly.

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near future, while 54% believe AI’s benefits surpass

This section explores global differences in AI opinions

companies’ data-protection capabilities.

its drawbacks. About half of the respondents trust AI

through surveys conducted by Ipsos in 2022 and 2023.
These surveys reveal that public perceptions of AI vary
widely across countries and demographic groups.

The figure also contrasts Ipsos survey responses
from 2022 and 2023, highlighting a shift in public
AI sentiment following the release of ChatGPT—amilestone in public AI recognition. Over the last

AI Products and Services
In 2023, Ipsos ran a survey on global attitudes toward AI

year, there has been a noticeable 6 percentage point

products and services. The survey consisted of interviews

increase in those who think AI will dramatically affectwith 22,816 adults ages 16 to 74 in 31 countries.1

their lives in the next three to five years. Moreover,Figure 9.1.1 shows the percentage of respondents
who agree with specific statements. A significant
66% anticipate AI will greatly change their lives in the

52% now express nervousness toward AI products andservices, marking a 13 percentage point rise from 2022.
The public across the globe is becoming increasingly
cognizant of and nervous about AI’s growing impact.

Global opinions on products and services using AI (% of total), 2022 vs. 2023

Source: Ipsos, 2022–23 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

67%

I have a good understanding of what
arti cial intelligence is

64%

Products and services using arti cialintelligence will profoundly change
my daily life in the next 3–5 years

66%
60%

Products and services using arti cialintelligence have more bene ts thandrawbacks

54%
52%

I know which types of products andservices use arti cial intelligence

51%
50%

I trust companies that use arti cialintelligence as much as I trust othercompanies

52%
50%

Products and services using arti cialintelligence have profoundly changed
my daily life in the past 3–5 years

49%
49%
52%

Products and services using arti cialintelligence make me nervous

39%

I trust arti cial intelligence to notdiscriminate or show bias towards
any group of people

56%

2023

I trust that companies that use
arti cial intelligence will protect
my personal data

0%

2022

50%

10%

20%

30%
40%
% of respondents that “Agree”

50%

60%

70%
Figure 9.1.1

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Perceptions of AI’s benefits versus drawbacks varydeveloped Western nations, including Germany,

considerably by country, according to the Ipsos survey.

the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Canada, and

78% of Indonesian, 74% of Thai, and 73% of Mexican

the United States, were among the least positive

respondents view AI products and services as more

about AI products and services. Since then, each of

beneficial than harmful (Figure 9.1.2). In contrast, only

these countries has seen a rise in the proportion of

37% of Americans agree with this perspective. Amongrespondents acknowledging the benefits of AI, withthe 31 countries surveyed, the United States and France

the Netherlands experiencing the most significant

exhibited the most skepticism.

shift. By 2023, 43% of Dutch respondents viewed AI

Attitudes toward AI are becoming more positive incountries that were previously critical. In 2022, several

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‘Products
and 2024
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2022–23 | Chart:
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report AI have more benets than drawbacks,’ by country (% of total), 2022 vs. 2023

Source: Ipsos, 2022–23 | Chart: 2024 AI Index reportIndonesia

Mexico Mexico

73%

65%

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69%

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Peru
Turkey70%

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62%71%

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Brazil

Italy

Japan

50%

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Netherlands
Germany

Australia

37%

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33%

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31%
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40% 40%50%% of respondents that “Agree”

60%

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Figure 9.1.3 shows responses to Ipsos’ survey on

Conversely, Japanese respondents show the least

AI products and services by country. Indonesian

understanding of AI (43%) and also report the lowest

respondents are notably optimistic: 84% claim a solid

level of nervousness about AI (23%). Meanwhile,

understanding of AI, 79% believe AI will significantly

Thai respondents exhibit the highest trust in AI’schange their lives in the next three to five years, and 75%

impartiality, believing it will not discriminate or show

express excitement about AI products and services.

bias toward any group.

Opinions about AI by country (% agreeing with statement), 2023
Source: Ipsos, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

I have a good understanding of what
67% 59% 56% 74% 59% 70% 73% 58% 61% 64% 73% 64% 84% 58% 53% 43% 65% 75% 71% 62% 73% 69% 77% 67% 78% 76% 66% 67% 78% 73% 67%
arti cial intelligence is
Products and services using arti cialintelligence will profoundly change 64% 62% 52% 70% 54% 71% 67% 51% 56% 58% 62% 65% 79% 53% 63% 65% 78% 71% 63% 61% 76% 59% 73% 78% 70% 82% 61% 55% 79% 81% 57%
my daily life in the next 3–5 years
I trust arti cial intelligence to notdiscriminate or show bias towards 61% 44% 41% 66% 44% 60% 61% 37% 47% 47% 66% 66% 76% 41% 59% 43% 68% 72% 42% 45% 72% 59% 63% 63% 65% 55% 51% 33% 83% 63% 38%
any group of people
Products and services using arti cialintelligence have more bene ts than 57% 40% 39% 64% 38% 59% 65% 37% 42% 46% 48% 65% 78% 40% 55% 52% 69% 73% 43% 44% 67% 47% 61% 64% 59% 66% 50% 39% 74% 67% 37%
drawbacks
Products and services using arti cial
46% 40% 35% 66% 37% 51% 62% 36% 43% 42% 45% 66% 75% 38% 50% 51% 74% 74% 42% 43% 72% 50% 62% 65% 59% 76% 50% 32% 80% 74% 36%
intelligence make me excited
I trust companies that use arti cialintelligence as much as I trust other 52% 42% 39% 60% 39% 51% 56% 37% 45% 45% 46% 67% 69% 39% 53% 44% 70% 66% 44% 43% 60% 50% 62% 57% 55% 55% 49% 42% 73% 65% 36%
companies
Products and services using arti cial
46% 69% 50% 51% 63% 54% 45% 52% 46% 65% 46% 58% 48% 62% 50% 23% 55% 48% 50% 63% 47% 38% 50% 53% 53% 44% 51% 53% 57% 54% 63%
intelligence make me nervous
I know which types of products and
44% 38% 35% 62% 38% 58% 53% 37% 39% 43% 37% 62% 76% 36% 50% 38% 68% 61% 42% 35% 65% 46% 62% 57% 60% 68% 46% 36% 73% 71% 35%
services use arti cial intelligence
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arti cial intelligence will protect 45% 38% 41% 56% 34% 44% 53% 32% 44% 42% 60% 64% 68% 38% 59% 32% 61% 66% 47% 42% 60% 55% 61% 54% 58% 40% 49% 39% 72% 57% 32%
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my daily life in the past 3–5 years

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A large majority of the countries surveyed by Ipsos in(24 percentage points), France (19), Chile (18), and2022 were surveyed again in 2023, enabling cross-

Australia (18).

year comparisons. Figure 9.1.4 highlights the year-over-

Likewise, except for South Africa, all countries in theyear percentage point change in answers to particularsurvey sample are now more inclined to believe that

AI-related questions. For every country surveyed

AI will significantly impact their lives in the next three

in both 2022 and 2023, an increase was reported

to five years. The highest increase of 12 percentage

in the degree to which AI products make people

points was reported in Japan, Great Britain, Germany,

nervous. The sharpest increases were reported in Italy

and Australia.

Percentage point change in opinions about AI by country (% agreeing with statement), 2022–23

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I trust companies that use arti cialintelligence as much as I trust other -3% 6%
companies-1%

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intelligence make me nervous

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Italy

Japan

Malaysia

MexicoPoland2%

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Peru

2%

Hungary

1%

Netherlands

Products and services using arti cialintelligence have profoundly changed -8% 4% -6% 12% 2% -4% -5% -1%
my daily life in the past 3–5 years
France-1%

Colombia

7%

Chile

5%

Canada4%

Brazil0%Belgium

6%

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2%

Great Britain

7% 10% 14% 12%-1% -9% 3%

Argentina

1%

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I know which types of products-3% -1% -3% 4%
and services use AI

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United States

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drawbacks

11%

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my daily life in the next 3–5 years

9%

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South Korea

0% -4% 5%South Africa

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AI and Jobs
This year’s Ipsos survey included more questions aboutof respondents think AI is likely to change how they

how people perceive AI’s impact on their current jobs.

perform their current job within the next five years,

Figure 9.1.5 illustrates the various global perspectives

and 36% fear AI may replace their job in the sameon the expected impact of AI on employment. 57%

time frame.

Global opinions on the impact of AI on current jobs, 2023
Source: Ipsos, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

LikelyDon’t know

AI will change how you do yourcurrent job in the next 5 years

AI will replace your current job
in the next 5 years

0%

Not likely

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Opinions on whether AI will significantly impact anSpecifically, 66% of Gen Z compared to 46% of

individual’s job vary significantly across demographic

boomer respondents agree with the statement thatgroups (Figure 9.1.6). Younger generations, such as

AI will likely affect their current jobs. Additionally,

Gen Z and millennials, are more inclined to agree

individuals with higher incomes, more education, andthat AI will change how they do their jobs compareddecision-making roles are more likely to foresee AI

to older generations like Gen X and baby boomers.

impacting their current employment.

Global opinions on the impact of AI on current jobs by demographic group, 2023

Source: Ipsos, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

70%
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Yes

Higher education

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Middle income

Lower income

BoomerGen X

Millennial

Gen Z

0%

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Male% of respondents

60%

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66%

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AI and Livelihood
The Ipsos survey explored the impact respondents

and 37% think it will improve their job. Only 34%

believe AI will have on various aspects of their lives,

anticipate AI will boost the economy, and just 32%

such as health and entertainment. On topics like time

believe it will enhance the job market.

management and entertainment, the majority viewed

Similar to questions about AI products and services,

AI positively (Figure 9.1.7). For instance, 54% of global

responses showed intracountry consistency, withrespondents agree that AI will improve the efficiency

Japanese, Swedes, and Americans generallyof their tasks, and 51% believe AI will enhance

pessimistic about AI’s potential to improveentertainment options like TV, movies, music, andlivelihoods, whereas Brazilians, Indonesians, andbooks. However, skepticism was more prominent in

Mexicans were more optimistic.

other areas. Only 39% feel AI will benefit their health,Global opinions on the potential of AI improving life by country, 2023
Source: Ipsos, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

The amount of time it takes
54% 62% 44% 39% 67% 39% 60% 65% 45% 37% 46% 54% 57% 72% 42% 48% 33% 62% 68% 55% 50% 70% 48% 51% 64% 71% 61% 48% 38% 71% 62% 46%
me to get things done
My entertainment options(television/video content, 51% 63% 43% 37% 64% 42% 63% 64% 32% 39% 45% 41% 57% 71% 44% 45% 33% 57% 68% 50% 47% 71% 40% 46% 57% 66% 54% 51% 37% 68% 60% 40%
movies, music, books)

My health 39% 47% 29% 28% 55% 29% 47% 50% 37% 25% 33% 28% 50% 58% 29% 37% 16% 49% 61% 30% 31% 55% 23% 43% 40% 49% 38% 33% 25% 56% 47% 32%

My job 37% 36% 30% 21% 55% 25% 36% 41% 26% 23% 32% 24% 48% 62% 24% 32% 19% 47% 52% 25% 30% 56% 30% 30% 41% 51% 23% 27% 28% 66% 47% 28%

The economy in my country 34% 28% 26% 18% 51% 20% 31% 40% 24% 27% 31% 25% 54% 58% 25% 29% 22% 50% 48% 27% 28% 46% 29% 34% 50% 39% 34% 25% 21% 62% 39% 23%

TurkeyUnited States

Thailand

Spain

SwedenSouth Korea

South Africa

Romania

Singapore

Peru

PolandNetherlands

New Zealand

MexicoJapan

Malaysia

Italy

IrelandIndonesia

India

Hungary

Great Britain

FranceGermany

Colombia

Chile

BrazilCanadaBelgium

Australia

GlobalArgentina

The job market 32% 38% 20% 18% 49% 19% 32% 38% 21% 20% 21% 24% 49% 50% 22% 30% 22% 39% 54% 23% 22% 54% 26% 33% 37% 38% 17% 23% 21% 53% 50% 21%

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Significant demographic differences also exist inentertainment, health, and the economy compared toperceptions of AI’s potential to enhance livelihoods,

their lower-income and less-educated counterparts.

with younger generations generally expressing greater

In general, members of Gen Z, those in higher

optimism. For instance, 59% of Gen Z respondents

income brackets, and those with more education are

believe AI will improve entertainment options,the most optimistic about AI’s potential to improve

versus only 40% of baby boomers. Additionally,

life, while those from the boomer generation, lower

individuals with higher incomes and education levels

income brackets, and with less education are theare more optimistic about AI’s positive impacts onleast optimistic.

Global opinions on the potential of AI improving life by demographic group, 2023
53%

63%

57%

52%

43%

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61%

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50%

My entertainment options(television/video content,
movies, music, books)

52%

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The economy in my country

37%

31%

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FemaleGen Z

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Gen X

BoomerLower income

Middle income

Upper income

Lower education

Medium education

Higher education

Gender

Generation

Household income

Education

Nonemployed55%

Employed

The amount of time it takes me
to get things done

MaleSource: Ipsos, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Employment status

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Attitudes on ChatGPT

Toronto. In October and November 2023, researchers

Many argue that the launch of ChatGPT by OpenAIfrom SRI and PEARL conducted a 21-country survey

in November 2022 was a watershed moment inexamining global attitudes toward AI.

familiarizing the public with AI. While AI encompasses
much more than ChatGPT or LLMs, the prominenceof ChatGPT as one of the most well-known AI
tools makes gauging public sentiment toward it aninteresting approach for better understanding broader
opinions on AI.

awareness of ChatGPT. Among global respondents,
63% claim awareness of ChatGPT. Countries with thehighest awareness rates include India (82%), Kenya(81%), Indonesia (76%), and Pakistan (76%). Polandreported the lowest awareness, at 43%.

Global Public Opinion on Artificial Intelligence(GPO-AI) is a report created by the Schwartz
Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)in collaboration with the Policy, Elections andRepresentation Lab (PEARL) at the Munk School of
Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of

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who report being familiar with ChatGPT use the tool.
Globally, 17% of users utilize it daily, 36% weekly, and
16% monthly. India (36%), Pakistan (28%), and Kenya(27%) report the highest levels of daily usage.

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Global awareness of ChatGPT (% of total), 2023
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Yes

UnsureNo

Global63%

Argentina

7%67%

Australia

30%
7%

60%

26%

5%

36%

Brazil

64%

7%

30%

Canada

64%

7%

28%

Chile

52%

11%

38%

China

60%

9%

France

60%

7%

33%

Germany

60%

7%

33%

India

82%

Indonesia

6%

52%

8%

Japan

17%

41%

61%

12%

Kenya

15%

3%

76%

Italy

27%

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Mexico

17%

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10%

Pakistan
Poland

31%

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Portugal

41%

59%South Africa

18%

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Spain

61%

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32%

United Kingdom

61%

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United States
0%

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20%

7%

40%

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Daily
Global9%Australia

8%

36%

38%

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39%

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27%

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China

Japan

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CanadaItaly

Rarely33%

BrazilGermanyMonthly17%

Argentina

Chile

Weekly

42%
21%

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60%

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100%

% of respondents

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AI Concerns

purposes (49%), its impact on jobs (49%), and

GPO-AI also reported on respondents’ AI-related

its potential to violate citizens’ privacy (45%). In

concerns. Figure 9.1.11 presents the percentage ofcontrast, global citizens were comparatively lesssurvey respondents who expressed concern about

concerned about issues of unequal access to AI

11 specific impacts. Globally, individuals were most(26%), AI’s potential for bias and discrimination

concerned about AI being misused for nefarious(24%), and their own ability to use AI (22%).

Global concerns on the impacts of AI in the next few years, 2023
63%

45%

46%

52%

56%

39%

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57%

34%

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47%

52%

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Impact of AI49%
on jobs

53%

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Violation of45%
citizens’ privacy

53%

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Dehumanization of41%
services

52%

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44%

49%

54%

22%

51%

40%

28%

28%

42%

38%

37%

47%

21%

27%

59%

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54%

44%

39%

Lack of transparency
34%
in decision-making

35%

42%

35%

38%

35%

27%

30%

33%

36%

36%

31%

24%

36%

33%

28%

32%

41%

47%

35%

35%

32%

Impact of AI
33%
on education

32%

28%

33%

34%

33%

26%

28%

27%

41%

35%

24%

25%

47%

30%

43%

28%

37%

43%

33%

27%

27%

Ethical implications 30%

32%

38%

28%

37%

34%

25%

22%

27%

32%

23%

25%

24%

33%

29%

23%

25%

37%

30%

34%

35%

32%

Accuracy of results
28%
and analysis

23%

38%

18%

32%

24%

24%

23%

24%

39%

30%

20%

29%

43%

25%

34%

20%

22%

38%

20%

31%

30%

Uneven access
26%
to AI

35%

21%

35%

24%

32%

23%

23%

23%

29%

29%

19%

27%

22%

30%

19%

20%

32%

28%

28%

18%

19%

Potential for bias
24%
and discrimination

20%

34%

26%

30%

23%

20%

17%

22%

29%

33%

18%

18%

28%

23%

18%

16%

27%

29%

24%

32%

26%

My own ability
22%
to use AI

22%

18%

20%

18%

24%

18%

19%

16%

36%

30%

17%

16%

33%

27%

31%

14%

22%

29%

18%

19%

19%

Australia

BrazilCanada

Chile

China

FranceGermany

India

Indonesia

Italy

Japan

Kenya

MexicoPakistan

PolandPortugal

South Africa

Spain

United Kingdom

United States

GlobalMisuse/use for49%
nefarious purposes

Argentina

Source: Global Public Opinion on Arti cial Intelligence (GPO-AI), 2024 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

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Americans’ feelings toward increased use of AI
in daily life (% of total), 2021–23

U.S. Public Opinion

Source: Pew Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Since 2021, Pew Research Center has been

More excited than concerned

investigating sentiment toward AI in the United

Equally concerned and excitedMore concerned than excited

100%

States. They received 11,000 responses to their mostrecent 2023 survey.

37%

80%

38%

Figure 9.1.12 shows that over the last year, Americans
AI in their daily lives. In 2021 and 2022, only 37% and
38% of Americans, respectively, reported feelingmore concerned than excited about AI technology.
By 2023, this figure had risen to 52%, indicating that% of respondents

have grown increasingly concerned about the use of

52%
60%
18%

15%
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20%

45%

46%

2021

2022

36%

a majority of Americans now feel more concerned
than excited about AI technology.

0%

2023
Figure 9.1.12

Pew also surveyed Americans’ opinions on whether they believed AI helped or hindered in specific contexts(Figure 9.1.13). Respondents reported that AI was more likely to be beneficial, particularly in assisting people tofind products or services online, with 49% expressing this view. However, 53% of respondents indicated that AI
was more likely to be detrimental than beneficial in safeguarding personal information privacy.

Americans’ opinions of whether AI helps or hurts in speci c settings (% of total), 2023

Source: Pew Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Helps more than it hurts
People nding products, services
they are interested in online

Not sure

Hurts more than it helps

49%

35%

Doctors providing quality careto patients

37%

42%

Companies making safe cars
and trucks

37%

44%

People nding accurate
information online

33%

People taking care of their health33%

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customer service

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People keeping their personal
information private

20%

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28%

Police maintaining public safety

15%

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Pew further segmented the data by educationlevel degrees are more likely to report that AI canlevel (Figure 9.1.14). Across various use categories,

significantly aid doctors in delivering quality care to

Americans with higher education levels are morepatients and assist people in discovering products

likely to believe in AI’s potential to help rather thanand services online that interest them.

harm. For instance, individuals with college or higher-

Di erences in Americans’ view of AI’s impact by education level (% of total), 2023
Source: Pew Research, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

People nding products and services they are interested in online
College degree+

60%

Some college or less

27%

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Companies making safe cars and trucks
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Police maintaining public safety

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Dominant Models

sentiment score expresses the ratio of positive tonegative sentiment around a given topic. A net

Public attitudes toward AI can be assessed throughsentiment score of +100 means that all conversation

both quantitative and qualitative analyses ofis positive; a score of -100 means that all conversation

posts made on social media. Quid analyzed social

is negative. Many models released in 2023 received

conversations surrounding AI models across various

positive social media sentiment. Some of the models

sectors from January to December 2023, examiningthat garnered the highest degree of positive attention

over 7 million social media posts.

were GraphCast, a new AI-powered weather

Figure 9.2.1 shows the net sentiment score of various

forecasting system from DeepMind, and Claude 2.1,

AI models released throughout the year. The net

one of Anthropic’s most recent LLMs.

Net sentiment score of AI models by quarter, 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

2023/Q1

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Stable Di�usion

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Figure 9.2.2 highlights the proportion of AI-related

the fourth quarter of 2023, GPT-4 still captured 45%

social media conversation that was dominated by theof social media attention. Other models that garnered

release of particular models. GPT-4 remained a dom-significant attention included Grok, Stable Diffusion,

inant topic of consumer conversation throughout theand Gemini.

2

year. Despite the release of numerous new models bySelect models’ share of AI social media attention by quarter, 2023
Source: Quid, 2023 | Chart: 2024 AI Index report

Stable Di�usion

2023/Q1

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2 The figures in this section consider all AI-related social media conversation. The percentage associated with a model in a quarter in Figure 9.2.2 represents the share of all AI-related social
media conversation in that quarter that was concerned with that model.

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Highlight:

AI-Related Social Media Discussion in 2023
The following section, featuring data from Quid,

In Q4 2023, discussions surrounding the release ofprofiles specific narratives surrounding the

GPT-4 Turbo, launched in November, saw a significant

discussion of AI that occurred on social media

increase. Positive sentiment centered around its

in 2023. GPT-4 gathered most of the discussion

innovative features and upgrades that could transformvolume in Q2 after its launch on March 14,

programmers’ workflows. These enhancements

2023. Positive sentiment was primarily driven byincluded longer conversation capabilities, improved

its improvements, including faster processing

contextual understanding, and multimodal ability to

speed, improved accuracy, and praise for its

generate images. However, some negative feedback

ability to enhance productivity across different

arose due to disappointment with the model’s

types of work tasks, such as coding, corporate

knowledge cutoff in April 2023 and slower loadingcollaboration, and content creation. Negative

speeds compared to GPT-4. Some of the sample social

sentiment primarily stemmed from complaints

media posts from this time included:

about occasional crashes of the ChatGPT
website, along with an open letter led by Elon
Musk and supported by over 1,300 artificial
intelligence experts, urging AI laboratories topause training of powerful AI systems. Moreover,there was disagreement regarding the “openletter” and the suggestion to halt AI research,“This is just insane… My GPT-4 coding assistantcan now: - build and design a frontend - create abackend with working db - correctly hook them up- upload code to GitHub - deploy it to Vercel[.] I cannow build *complete* apps with nothing more thanmy voice. The future is here!” — @mckaywrigley

particularly considering its potential to have

“Trying to make my LinkedIn profile more

a positive impact across multiple fields. Forinteresting if a recruiter is using a large language

example, Andrew Ng posted:

model like GPT-4 to send me a message. Looks like

“1/The call for a 6 month moratorium
on making AI progress beyond GPT-4

it works on the public version of my profile!”— @brdskggs

is a terrible idea. I’m seeing many new“GPT-4 Turbo has knowledge of the world up

applications in education, healthcare, food,to April 2023. @sama says the team is ‘just as... that’ll help many people. Improving GPT-4

annoyed as you, maybe more’ that the knowledge

will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is

is not more updated and that @openai will work tocreating vs. realistic risks.” — @AndrewYNg

make sure it never gets that outdated again.”— @VentureBeat

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Highlight:

AI-Related Social Media Discussion in 2023 (cont’d)
Discussions about Stable Diffusion were more

“Stable Diffusion XL with ControlNet is insane

prominent in the first half of 2023, but decreased

Discover the future of AI with Stability AI’s

toward the year’s end. More posts mentioned

latest innovation: Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) 1.0!

Stable Diffusion XL models than Stable Diffusion

This powerful text-to-image generation model

2.0 (around 16 times more). Positive sentiment

improves image quality and makes it easier for

was mainly driven by the tool’s rapid increase inusers to create highly detailed images. Built on a

popularity, the potential benefits of AI in enhancing

massive 3.5 billion-parameter base model, SDXL

creativity, and the excitement surrounding technical

1.0 boasts better accuracy and understanding ofadvancements and improvements (e.g., enhanced

various concepts. Want to know more? Checkaccuracy, better understanding of various concepts,

out my video where I delve deeper into thisand higher resolution). On the other hand, negative

groundbreaking technology!” — @work.with.ai

sentiment revolved around concerns about legal andethical issues related to AI-generated content, suchas copyright violations, ownership of AI-createdmaterial, and the possible replacement of humanartists by AI. Additionally, worries were expressed
about the risks and threats linked to artificial
intelligence, like its potential harmful effects, thespread of misinformation, and the possibility of AI
being used for academic cheating.
“Very happy about sharing smashed Stable
Diffusion models! - In one line of code, we
compressed popular text-to-image Stable
Diffusion models for A100. - Evaluations across

Both Gemini (from Google) and Grok (from xAI)saw an increase in conversations during Q4 dueto their late year launches. Positive feedback for
Gemini focused on its improved accuracy andmultilingual capabilities, as well as its potential
to enhance various Google services like Searchand Ads. On the other hand, negative opinions
stemmed from concerns about inaccurate results,
disappointment over Gemini’s delayed release, andskepticism toward the Gemini AI demo.
“WHAT IS GOOGLE GEMINI AND HOW CANYOU USE IT?” — Erik Hyrkas

various metrics show significant speedup“Gemini Ultra (if Google is honest) Will Blow Our

improvements, energy savings, and CO2

Minds” — Tina Huang

emissions savings. Now looking forward [to]sharing more compression results :) Feel free
to contact us to achieve the same on your own
models https://pruna.ai/contact ;)”— @Bertrand_Charp

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Acknowledgments

Technology Observatory’s website.1 Using CAT, users

The AI Index would like to acknowledge Ben Cottierand investment data.2

and Robi Rahman from Epoch for leading the work
analyzing machine learning training costs; Robi Rahman
for leading work regarding the national affiliation of
notable systems; and James da Costa, for doing coding
work instrumental to the sectoral and national affiliation
analysis of foundation models.

AI Conference Attendance
The AI Index reached out to the organizers of various
AI conferences in 2023 and asked them to provide
information on total attendance. Some conferences
posted their attendance totals online; when this was thecase, the AI Index used those reported totals and did
not reach out to the conference organizers.

can also interact with country bibliometric, patent,

Publications From CSET Merged Corpus of
Scholarly Literature
Sources
CSET’s merged corpus of scholarly literature
combines distinct publications from Clarivate’s Web
of Science, OpenAlex, The Lens, Semantic Scholar,
arXiv, and Papers With Code.
Updates: The source list of scholarly literature for
CSET’s merged corpus has been changed from prioryears, with the inclusion of OpenAlex, the Lens,
and Semantic Scholar, and the exclusion of Digital
Science’s Dimensions and the Chinese National
Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI).
Methodology

CSET

To create the merged corpus, CSET deduplicatedPrepared by Autumn Toney
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology(CSET) is a policy research organization within
Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign
Service that produces data-driven research at theintersection of security and technology, providing
nonpartisan analysis to the policy community.
For more information about how CSET analyzes
bibliometric and patent data, see the Country Activity
Tracker (CAT) documentation on the Emerging

across the listed sources using publication metadata,
and then combined the metadata for linked
publications. For analysis of AI publications, CSET
used an English-language subset of this corpus
published since 2010. CSET researchers developed
a classifier for identifying AI-related publications byleveraging the arXiv repository, where authors andeditors tag papers by subject.3
Updates: The AI classifier was updated from theversion used in prior years; Dunham, Melot, andMurdick4 describe the previously implemented

1 https://eto.tech/tool-docs/cat/
2 https://cat.eto.tech/
3 Christian Schoeberl, Autumn Toney, and James Dunham, “Identifying AI Research” (Center for Security and Emerging Technology, July 2023), https://doi.org/10.51593/20220030.
4 James Dunham, Jennifer Melot, and Dewey Murdick, “Identifying the Development and Application of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Text,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2002.07143 (2020).

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classifier; and Schoeberl, Toney, and Dunham describe

publication type (e.g., academic journal articles,

the updated classifier used in this analysis.

conference papers) were provided where available.

CSET matched each publication in the analytic corpus
with predictions from a field-of-study model derived

These publication types were disaggregated byaffiliation country as described above.

from Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)’s taxonomy,

CSET also provided publication affiliation sector(s)which yields hierarchical labels describing thewhere, as in the country attribution analysis, sectors

published research field(s) of study and corresponding

were associated with publications through authors’scores. CSET researchers identified the most common

affiliations. Not all affiliations were characterized infields of study in our corpus of AI-relevant publications

terms of sectors; CSET researchers relied primarily

since 2010 and recorded publications in all other fields

on ROR for this purpose, and not all organizations canas “Other AI.” English-language AI-relevant publications

be found in or linked to ROR.6 Where the affiliation

were then tallied by their top-scoring field andsector is available, papers were counted toward thesepublication year.

sectors, by year.

Updates: The methodology to assign MAG fields of

CSET counted cross-sector collaborations as distinct

study was updated from the methodology used in priorpairs of sectors across authors for each publication.

years. Toney and Dunham describe the field of study

Collaborations are only counted once: For example,

assignment pipeline used in this analysis; prior years

if a publication has two authors with an academic

used the original MAG implementation.

affiliation and two with an industry affiliation, it is5

CSET also provided publication counts and year-by-

counted as a single academic-industry collaboration.

country. A publication is associated with a country

Patents From CSET’s AI and Robotics Patents
Datasetif it has at least one author whose organizational

Sourceaffiliation(s) is located in that country. If there is

CSET’s AI patents dataset was developed by CSET

no observed country, the publication receives anand 1790 Analytics and includes data from The Lens,“Unknown/Missing” country label. Citation counts

1790 Analytics, and EPO’s PATSTAT. Patents relevant

aren’t available for all publications; those without

to the development and application of AI and robotics

counts weren’t included in the citation analysis. Over

were identified by their CPC/IPC codes and keywords.

year citations for AI-relevant work associated with each

70% of English-language AI papers published between
2010 and 2022 have citation data available.
Additionally, publication counts by year and by

Methodology
In this analysis, patents were grouped by year andcountry, and then counted at the “patent family”

5 These scores are based on cosine similarities between field-of-study and paper embeddings. See Autumn Toney and James Dunham, “Multi-Label Classification of Scientific Research
Documents Across Domains and Languages,” Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022): 105–14, https://aclanthology.org/2022.sdp-1.12/.
6 See https://ror.org/ for more information about the ROR dataset.
7 Patents are analyzed at the “patent family” level rather than “patent document” level because patent families are a collective of patent documents all associated with a single invention and/or innovation by the same inventors/assignees. Thus, counting at the “patent family” level mitigates artificial number inflation when there are multiple patent documents in a patent family or ifa patent is filed in multiple jurisdictions.

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level.7 CSET extracted year values from the first

3. All of the landmark publications are

publication date within a family. Countries are assigned

aggregated within time periods (e.g., monthly

to patents based on the country or filing office whereor yearly) with the national contributions

a patent is first filed (e.g., if a patent is filed with theadded up to determine what each country’s

USPTO on January 1, 2020, and then with the German

contribution to landmark AI research was

Patenting Office on January 2, 2020, the patent isduring each time period.

classified as a patent with U.S. inventors). Note that

4. The contributions of different countries are

the same patent may have multiple countries (but notcompared over time to identify any trends.

8

years) attributed to it if the inventors filed their patentin multiple countries on the same first filing date (e.g.,
if a patent is filed with the USPTO on January 1, 2020,
and then with the German Patenting Office on January
1, 2020, the patent is classified as a patent with U.S.
inventors and as a patent with German inventors).

Epoch Notable Models
Analysis
The AI forecasting research group Epoch maintains
a dataset of landmark AI and ML models, along withNote that patents filed with supranational

accompanying information about their creators andorganizations, such as patents filed under WIPO (thepublications, such as the list of their (co)authors,

World Intellectual Property Organization), EP (European

number of citations, type of AI task accomplished,

Patent Organization), and EA (a special area of Spainand amount of compute used in training.

not included in the European Union), also fall under the“Rest of World” category.

The nationalities of the authors of these papers haveimportant implications for geopolitical AI forecasting.

Ecosystems Graph Analysis

As various research institutions and technology

To track the distribution of AI foundation models by

global distribution of future AI development may shiftcountry, the AI Index team took the following steps:

or concentrate in certain places, which in turn affects

1. A snapshot of the Ecosystems Graph was taken inearly January 2024.
2. Authors of foundation models are attributed tocompanies start producing advanced ML models, thethe geopolitical landscape because AI is expected
to become a crucial component of economic andmilitary power in the near future.

countries based on their affiliation credited on

To track the distribution of AI research contributions

the paper/technical documentation associatedon landmark publications by country, the Epochwith the model. For international organizations,dataset is coded according to the following

authors are attributed to the country where themethodology:

organization is headquartered, unless a more
specific location is indicated.

8 In CSET’s data analysis for the 2022 AI Index, we used the most recent publication date for a patent family. This method has the advantage of capturing updates within a patentfamily (such as amendments). However, to remain consistent with CSET’s other data products, including the Country Activity Tracker (available at https://cat.eto.tech/), we opted touse the first filing year instead in this data analysis.

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1. A snapshot of the dataset was taken on

Mapping AI Projects to Geographic Areas

January 1, 2024. This includes papers

Public AI projects are mapped to geographic areas

about landmark models, selected using theusing IP address geolocation to determine the mode

inclusion criteria of importance, relevance,

location of a project’s owners each year. Each projectand uniqueness, as described in the Computeowner is assigned a location based on their IP address

Trends dataset documentation.

when interacting with GitHub. If a project owner

2. The authors are attributed to countries basedchanges locations within a year, the location for theon their affiliation credited on the paper.

project would be determined by the mode location

For international organizations, authorsof its owners sampled daily in the year. Additionally,

are attributed to the country where thethe last known location of the project owner isorganization is headquartered, unless a morecarried forward on a daily basis even if no activities

specific location is indicated.

were performed by the project owner that day. For

3. All of the landmark publications areexample, if a project owner performed activities

aggregated within time periods (e.g., monthly

within the United States and then became inactive foror yearly) with the national contributions

six days, that project owner would be considered to

added up to determine what each country’s

be in the United States for that seven-day span.

contribution to landmark AI research was
during each time period.
4. The contributions of different countries arecompared over time to identify any trends.

Training Cost Analysis
To create the dataset of cost estimates, the Epoch
database was filtered for models released during the

GitHublarge-scale ML era9 that were above the median of

Identifying AI Projects
In partnership with researchers from Harvard Business
School, Microsoft Research, and Microsoft’s AI for
Good Lab, GitHub identifies public AI repositories
following the methodologies of Gonzalez, Zimmerman,

training compute in a two-year window centered on
their release date. This filtered for the largest-scale
ML models. There were 138 qualifying systems basedon these criteria. Of these systems, 48 had sufficient
information to estimate the training cost.

and Nagappan, 2020, and Dohmke, Iansiti, andFor the selected ML models, the training time andRichards, 2023, using topic labels related to AI/ML

the type, quantity, and utilization rate of the training

and generative AI, respectively, along with the topics

hardware were determined from the publication,“machine learning,” “deep learning,” or “artificial

press release, or technical reports, as applicable.

intelligence.” GitHub further augments the dataset with

Cloud rental prices for the computing hardware used

repositories that have a dependency on the PyTorch,by these models were collected from online historicalTensorFlow, or OpenAI libraries for Python.

archives of cloud vendors’ websites.10

9 The selected cutoff date was September 1, 2015, in accordance with Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning (Epoch, 2022).
10 Historic prices were collected from archived snapshots of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform price catalogs viewed through the Internet Archive
Wayback Machine.

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Training costs were estimated from the hardware type,
quantity, and time by multiplying the hourly cloud rental
cost rates (at the time of training)11 by the quantity of
hardware hours. This yielded the cost to train eachmodel using the same hardware used by the authors
to train the same model at the time. However, somedevelopers purchased hardware rather than renting
cloud computers, so the true costs incurred by thedevelopers may vary.
Various challenges were encountered while estimating
the training cost of these models. Often, the developers
did not disclose the duration of training or the hardwarethat was used. In other cases, cloud compute pricing
was not available for the hardware. The investigationof training cost trends is continued in a forthcoming
Epoch report, including an expanded dataset with moremodels and hardware prices.

11 The chosen rental cost rate was the most recent published price for the hardware and cloud vendor used by the developer of the model, at a three-year commitment rental rate, after
subtracting the training duration and two months from the publication date. If this price was not available, the most analogous price was used: the same hardware and vendor at a different
date, otherwise the same hardware from a different cloud vendor. If a three-year commitment rental rate was unavailable, this was imputed from other rental rates based on the empirical
average discount for the given cloud vendor. If the exact hardware type was not available, e.g., “NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB,” then a generalization was used, e.g., “NVIDIA A100.”

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Acknowledgments
The AI Index would like to acknowledge Andrew Shi for
his work doing a literature review on the environmental
impact of AI models; Emily Capstick for her work studying
the use of RLHF in machine learning models; Sukrut Oakfor his work generating sample Midjourney generations;and Emma Williamson for her work identifying significant
AI technical advancements for the timeline.

HEIM, please read the original paper.
8. HELM: Data on HELM was taken from the HELM
leaderboard in January 2024. To learn more about
HELM, please read the original paper.
9. HumanEval: Data on HumanEval was taken fromthe HumanEval Papers With Code leaderboard inJanuary 2024. To learn more about HumanEval,
please read the original paper.
10. M
 ATH: Data on MATH was taken from the MATH

Benchmarks

Papers With Code leaderboard in January 2024.

1. AgentBench: Data on AgentBench was taken fromoriginal paper.

the AgentBench paper in January 2024. To learn more
about AgentBench, please read the original paper.
2. BigToM: Data on BigToM was taken from the BigToM
paper in January 2024. To learn more about BigToM,
please read the original paper.
3. C hatbot Arena Leaderboard: Data on the Chatbot
Arena Leaderboard was taken from the Chatbot
Arena Leaderboard in January 2024. To learn more
about the Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, please readthe original paper.
4. EditVal: Data on EditVal was taken from the EditVal
paper in January 2024. To learn more about EditVal,
please read the original paper.
5. G
 PQA: Data on GPQA was taken from the GPQA
paper in January 2024. To learn more about GPQA,
please read the original paper.
6. GSM8K: Data on GSM8K was taken from the
GSM8K Papers With Code leaderboard in January
2024. To learn more about GSM8K, please read theoriginal paper.
7. HEIM: Data on HEIM was taken from the HEIM
leaderboard in January 2024. To learn more about

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2024. To learn more about MLAgentBench, please
read the original paper.
12. MMLU: Data on MMLU was taken from the
MMLU Papers With Code leaderboard in January
2024. To learn more about MMLU, please read theoriginal paper.
13. MMMU: Data on MMMU was taken from the
MMMU leaderboard in January 2024. To learn
more about MMMU, please read the original paper.
14. MoCa: Data on MoCa was taken from the MoCa
paper in January 2024. To learn more about
MoCa, please read the original paper.
15. PlanBench: Data on PlanBench was taken from the
PlanBench paper in January 2024. To learn more
about PlanBench, please read the original paper.
16. S
 WE-bench: Data on SWE-bench was taken fromthe SWE-bench leaderboard in January 2024. To
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17. TruthfulQA: Data on TruthfulQA was taken fromthe TruthfulQA Papers With Code leaderboard inJanuary 2024. To learn more about TruthfulQA,
please read the original paper.
18. UCF101: Data on UCF101 was taken from the
UCF101 Papers With Code leaderboard in January
2024. To learn more about UCF101, please read theoriginal paper.
19. VCR: Data on VCR was taken from the VCR
leaderboard in January 2024. To learn more about
VCR, please read the original paper.
20. VisIT-Bench: Data on VisIT-Bench was taken fromthe VisIT-Bench leaderboard in January 2024. To
learn more about VisIT-Bench, please read theoriginal paper.

Environmental Impact
To assess the environmental impact of AI models, theAI Index team surveyed technical reports of prominent
foundation models to determine whether the model
developers disclosed carbon emissions. The Index
also reviewed papers by researchers that estimatedthe carbon footprint of various models. The technicalreports surveyed, as well as the papers estimating thecarbon impact of various models, are included in theworks cited for this chapter.

RLHF
To identify foundation models using RLHF, the AI Index
team reviewed the technical documentation of every
foundation model included in the Ecosystem Graph,and searched for evidence that RLHF had been used in
the model’s development process. The year in which amodel is said to have used RLHF refers to the year themodel was released.

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Acknowledgments
The AI Index would like to acknowledge Amelia Hardyfor her work contributing as a research assistant tovisualizations and supplementary analysis for thischapter, and Andrew Shi for his work spearheading
the analysis of responsible AI-related conference
submissions. The AI Index also acknowledges that
the Global State of Responsible AI analysis wasdone in collaboration with Accenture. The AI Index
specifically wants to highlight the contributions of Arnab
Chakraborty, Patrick Connolly, Jakub Wiatrak, Ray EitelPorter, Dikshita Venkatesh, and Shekhar Tewari to thedata collection and analysis.

The keywords searched include:
Fairness and bias: algorithmic fairness, bias detection,
bias mitigation, discrimination, equity in AI, ethicalalgorithm design, fair data practices, fair ML, fairness
and bias, group fairness, individual fairness, justice,non-discrimination, representational fairness, unfair,
unfairness.
Privacy and data governance: anonymity,
confidentiality, data breach, data ethics, data
governance, data integrity, data privacy, dataprotection, data transparency, differential privacy,

Conference Submissions
Analysis

inference privacy, machine unlearning, privacy by

For the analysis on responsible AI-related conference

Security: adversarial attack, adversarial learning, AI

submissions, the AI Index examined the number ofincident, attacks, audits, cybersecurity, ethical hacking,responsible AI–related academic submissions at theforensic analysis, fraud detection, red teaming, safety,

following conferences: AAAI, AIES, FAccT, ICML,

security, security ethics, threat detection, vulnerability

ICLR, and NeurIPS. Specifically, the team scraped theassessment.

design, privacy-preserving, secure data storage,
trustworthy data curation.

conference websites or repositories of conference
submissions for papers containing relevant keywords

Transparency and explainability: algorithmic

indicating they could fall into a particular responsible

transparency, audit, auditing, causal reasoning,

AI category. The papers were then manually verified

causality, explainability, explainable AI, explainable

by a human team to confirm their categorization. It ismodels, human-understandable decisions,

possible that a single paper could belong to multiple

interpretability, interpretable models, model

responsible AI categories.

explainability, outcome explanation, transparency, xAI.

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Consistency of Responsible AI
Benchmark Reporting
For each of the analyzed models (GPT-4, Gemini,
Claude 2, Llama 2, Mistral 7B), the AI Index reviewed
the official papers published by the model developers
at the time of model release for reported academic
benchmarks. The AI Index did not consider subsequent
benchmark reports by the model developers or external
parties. The AI Index also did not include benchmarkson academic or professional exams (e.g., the GRE),benchmarks for modalities other than text, or internal
evaluation metrics.

Given the limited scalability of user interviews, theresearchers opted for a questionnaire-based approachto ensure broad coverage of organizations in different
countries and industries. They contracted McGuire
Research to run the recruitment and data collection.
The team received more than 15,897 responses from22 countries and 19 industries. The respondents wereasked 10 qualifier questions in the survey. Companies
were excluded if their global annual revenue was lessthan 500 million USD and/or the respondent had no
visibility into the RAI decision-making process of thecompany. Included in the final sample were morethan 1,000 organizations. The survey had a total of 38
questions, including the 10 qualifier questions.

Global Responsible State of
AI Survey

Below is the full list of measures respondents wereasked about in the survey and which were referenced
in the AI Index subchapters. The organizations could

Researchers from Stanford conducted a global

answer on a scale from Not applied, Ad-hoc, Rolling

responsible AI (RAI) survey in collaboration without, or Fully operationalized. The companies wereAccenture. The objective of the questionnaire wasfurther given the option to select Other and provide

to gain an understanding of the current level of RAI

information on mitigation measures not listed.

adoption globally and allow for a comparison of RAI
activities across 19 industries and 22 countries. The

Fairness measures:

survey is further used to develop an early snapshot•C ollection of representative data based on theof current perceptions around the responsible
development, deployment, and use of generative AI

anticipated user demographics•M aking methodology and data sources accessible

and how this might affect RAI adoption and mitigation

to third parties (auditors/general public) for

techniques. The survey covers a total of 10 RAI

independent oversightdimensions: Reliability; Privacy and Data Governance;
Fairness and Nondiscrimination; Transparency andExplainability; Human Interaction; Societal andEnvironmental Well-Being; Accountability; Leadership/
Principles/Culture; Lawfulness and Compliance; andOrganizational Governance. Only some of the survey
findings are presented in the AI Index, with a moredetailed report, the Global State of Responsible AI• Involvement of diverse stakeholders in model
development and/or review process• Assessment of performance across different
demographic groups• Use of technical bias mitigation techniques duringmodel development• Other (selection of this option opened an optional
free-text field)

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Data governance measures:

Reliability measures:• Checks to ensure that the data complies with all• Mitigation measures for model errors and handling

relevant laws and regulations and is used withconsent, where applicable• Data collection and preparation include assessmentof the completeness, uniqueness, consistency, andaccuracy of the data

low confidence outputs• Failover plans or other measures to ensure thesystem’s/model’s availability• Evaluation of models/systems for vulnerabilities orharmful behavior (i.e., red teaming)• Checks to ensure that the data is representative with• Measures to prevent adversarial attacks

respect to the demographic setting within which the• Confidence scoring for model outputs

final model/system is used• Comprehensive test cases that cover a wide range of• Regular data audits and updates to ensure therelevancy of the data

scenarios and metrics• Other (selection of this option opened an optional• Process for dataset documentation and traceability
throughout the AI life cycle• Remediation plans for and documentation of datasetswith shortcomings• Other (selection of this option opened an optional
free-text field)

free-text field)
Security measures:• Basic cybersecurity hygiene practices (e.g.,multifactor authentication, access controls, andemployee training)• Vetting and validation of cybersecurity measures ofTransparency and explainability:• Documentation of the development process, detailingalgorithm design choices, data sources, intended use
cases, and limitations

third parties in the supply chain• Dedicated AI cybersecurity team and/or personnel
explicitly trained for AI-specific cybersecurity• Technical AI-specific cybersecurity checks and• Training programs for stakeholders (incl. users)
covering the intended use cases and limitations of themodelmeasures, e.g., adversarial testing, vulnerability
assessments, and data security measures• Resources dedicated to research and monitoring• Prioritization of simpler models where highinterpretability is crucial, even if it sacrifices some
performanceof evolving AI-specific cybersecurity risks andintegration in existing cybersecurity processes• Other (selection of this option opened an optional• Use model explainability tools (e.g., saliency maps) tofree-text field)

elucidate model decisions• Other (selection of this option opened an optional
free-text field)

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Acknowledgments
The AI Index would like to acknowledge James da Costa
for his work collecting information on significant AIrelated economic events, and Emma Williamson for her
work collecting data from the Stack Overflow survey.

International Federation of
Robotics (IFR)

removes duplicates, and extracts data from job
postings text. This includes information on job title,
employer, industry, and region, as well as required
experience, education, and skills.
Job postings are useful for understanding trends inthe labor market because they allow for a detailed,real-time look at the skills employers seek. To assess
the representativeness of job postings data, Lightcast
conducts a number of analyses to compare theData presented in the Robot Installations section was

distribution of job postings to the distribution ofsourced from the “World Robotics 2023” report.

official government and other third-party sources in
the United States. The primary source of government

Lightcastdata on U.S. job postings is the Job Openings

Prepared by Cal McKeever, Julia Nitschke, andand Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) program,

Layla O’Kane

conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. BasedLightcast delivers job market analytics that empower

on comparisons between JOLTS and Lightcast, theemployers, workers, and educators to make datadriven decisions. The company’s artificial intelligence
technology analyzes hundreds of millions of job
postings and real-life career transitions to provide
insight into labor market patterns. This real-time
strategic intelligence offers crucial insights, suchas what jobs are most in demand, the specific skills
employers need, and the career directions that offer
the highest potential for workers. For more information,
visit www.lightcast.io.

labor market demand captured by Lightcast data
represents over 99% of the total labor demand. Jobs
not posted online are usually in small businesses (theclassic example being the “Help Wanted” sign in therestaurant window) and union hiring halls.

Measuring Demand for AI
In order to measure the demand by employers of
AI skills, Lightcast uses its skills taxonomy of over
30,000 skills. The list of AI skills from Lightcast data
are shown below, with associated skill clusters. Whilesome skills are considered to be in the AI cluster

Job Postings Data
To support these analyses, Lightcast mined its datasetof millions of job postings collected since 2010.
Lightcast collects postings from over 51,000 online job
sites to develop a comprehensive, real-time portrait

specifically, for the purposes of this report, all skills
below were considered AI skills. A job posting wasconsidered an AI job if it mentioned any of these skillsin the job text.

of labor market demand. It aggregates job postings,

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Artificial Intelligence: AI/ML Inference, AIOps

Natural Language Understanding, Optical Character(Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations), Applications

Recognition (OCR), Screen Reader, Semanticof Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence,

Analysis, Semantic Parsing, Semantic Search,

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

Sentiment Analysis, Seq2Seq, Speech Recognition,

Development, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language

Speech Recognition Software, Speech Synthesis,(AIML), Artificial Intelligence Systems, Azure Cognitive

Statistical Language Acquisition, Text Mining, Text-

Services, Baidu, Cognitive Automation, Cognitive

to-Speech, Tokenization, Voice Assistant Technology,

Computing, Computational Intelligence, Cortana,

Voice Interaction, Voice User Interface, Word

Ethical AI, Expert Systems, Explainable AI (XAI),

Embedding, Word2Vec Models, fastText

IPSoft Amelia, Intelligent Control, Intelligent Systems,
Interactive Kiosk, Knowledge Engineering, KnowledgeBased Configuration, Knowledge-Based Systems,
Multi-agent Systems, Open Neural Network Exchange(ONNX), OpenAI Gym, Operationalizing AI, Reasoning
Systems, Watson Conversation, Watson Studio, Weka

Neural Networks: Apache MXNet, Artificial
Neural Networks, Autoencoders, Caffe2, Chainer(Deep Learning Framework), Convolutional Neural
Networks, Cudnn, Deep Learning, Deep Learning
Methods, Deeplearning4j, Evolutionary Acquisitionof Neural Topologies, Fast.ai, Keras (Neural Network

Autonomous Driving: Advanced Driver Assistance

Library), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM),

Systems, Autonomous Cruise Control Systems,

OpenVINO, PaddlePaddle, Recurrent Neural Network

Autonomous System, Autonomous Vehicles, Guidance(RNN), TensorFlow

Navigation and Control Systems, Light Detection andRanging (LiDAR), OpenCV, Path Analysis, Path Finding,
Remote Sensing, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

Machine Learning: AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting),
Adversarial Machine Learning, Apache MADlib,
Apache Mahout, Apache SINGA, Apache Spark,

Generative Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT,

Association Rule Learning, Automated Machine

Generative Adversarial Networks, Generative Artificial

Learning, Autonomic Computing, AWS SageMaker,

Intelligence, Large Language Modeling, Prompt

Azure Machine Learning, Boosting, CHi-Squared

Engineering, Variational Autoencoders

Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID),

Natural Language Processing (NLP): AI Copywriting,
ANTLR, Amazon Textract, Apache OpenNLP, BERT(NLP Model), Chatbot, Computational Linguistics,
Conversational AI, Dialog Systems, Fuzzy Logic,
Handwriting Recognition, Hugging Face (NLP
Framework), Hugging Face Transformers, Intelligent
Agent, Intelligent Virtual Assistant, Kaldi, Language
Model, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Lexalytics, MachineTranslation, Microsoft LUIS, Natural Language
Generation, Natural Language Processing, Natural
Language Programming, Natural Language Toolkits,

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Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Cluster
Analysis, Collaborative Filtering, Confusion Matrix,
Cyber-Physical Systems, Dask (Software), DataClassification, Dbscan, Decision Models, Decision
Tree Learning, Dimensionality Reduction, Dlib (C++
Library), Ensemble Methods, Feature Engineering,
Feature Extraction, Feature Learning, Feature
Selection, Gaussian Process, Genetic Algorithm,
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Machine Learning Algorithms, Machine Learning
Methods, Machine Learning Model Monitoring And

LinkedIn
Prepared by Murat Erer, Carl Shan, and Akash Kaura

Evaluation, Machine Learning Model Training, Markov

Country Sample

Chain, Matrix Factorization, Meta Learning, Microsoft

Included countries represent a select sample of

Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), MLflow, MLOps (Machine

eligible countries with at least 40% labor force

Learning Operations), mlpack (C++ Library), ModelOps,

coverage by LinkedIn and at least 10 AI hires in

Naive Bayes Classifier, Perceptron, Predictive

any given month. India, despite not reaching 40%

Modeling, PyTorch (Machine Learning Library), PyTorchcoverage, was included in this sample because of its

Lightning, Random Forest Algorithm, Recommenderincreasing importance in the global economy.

Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Scikit-Learn (Python

Skills (AI Engineering and AI Literacy skills)

Package), Semi-supervised Learning, Soft Computing,Sorting Algorithm, Supervised Learning, Support
Vector Machine, Test Datasets, Theano (Software),Torch (Machine Learning), Training Datasets, Transfer
Learning, Transformer (Machine Learning Model),Unsupervised Learning, Vowpal Wabbit, Xgboost
Robotics: Advanced Robotics, Bot Framework,
Cognitive Robotics, Motion Planning, Nvidia Jetson,
Robot Framework, Robot Operating Systems, Robotic
Automation Software, Robotic Liquid Handling
Systems, Robotic Programming, Robotic Systems,
Servomotor, SLAM Algorithms (Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping)
Visual Image Recognition: 3D Reconstruction,
Activity Recognition, Computer Vision, Contextual
Image Classification, Digital Image Processing, Eye

LinkedIn members self-report their skills on theirLinkedIn profiles. Currently, more than 41,000
distinct, standardized skills are identified by LinkedIn.
These have been coded and classified by taxonomists
at LinkedIn into 249 skill groupings, which are the skill
groups represented in the dataset.
Skill groupings are derived by expert taxonomists
through a similarity-index methodology thatmeasures skill composition at the industry level.
LinkedIn’s industry taxonomy and their corresponding
NAICS codes can be found here.
This year LinkedIn made updates to the AI skills list
and categorized them into “AI Engineering” and “AI
Literacy” skills. See “AI Skills List Update Comparedto Last Year” section for more details.

Tracking, Face Detection, Facial Recognition, Gesture

Skills Genome

Recognition, Image Analysis, Image Matching, Image

For any entity (occupation or job, country, sector,

Recognition, Image Segmentation, Image Sensor,etc.), the skill genome is an ordered list (a vector) of

Imagenet, Machine Vision, Motion Analysis, Object

the 50 “most characteristic skills” of that entity. These

Recognition, OmniPage, Pose Estimation

most characteristic skills are identified using a TF-IDF
algorithm to identify the most representative skills of
the target entity, while down-ranking ubiquitous skills
that add little information about that specific entity(e.g., Microsoft Word).

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TF-IDF is a statistical measure that evaluates how

members’ profiles. If four of the skills that engineers

representative a word (in this case, a skill) is to a selected

possess belong to the AI skill group, this measureentity). This is done by multiplying two metrics:

indicates that the penetration of AI skills is estimated

1. The term frequency of a skill in an entity (“TF”).
2. The logarithmic inverse entity frequency of theskill across a set of entities (“IDF”). This indicates
how common or rare a word is in the entire entity
set. The closer IDF is to 0, the more common aword is.

to be 8% among engineers (e.g., 4/50).

Jobs or Occupations
LinkedIn member titles are standardized and grouped
into approximately 15,000 occupations. These are
not sector- or country-specific. These occupations
are further standardized into approximately

So, if the skill is very common across LinkedIn entities,

3,600 occupation representatives. Occupation

and appears in many job or member descriptions, therepresentatives group occupations with a common

IDF will approach 0. If, on the other hand, the skill isrole and specialty, regardless of seniority.

unique to specific entities, the IDF will approach 1.

AI Jobs or Occupations

Details are available at LinkedIn’s Skills Genome andLinkedIn–World Bank Methodology note.

An “AI” job is an occupation representativethat requires AI skills to perform the job. Skills
penetrations are used as a signal for whether AI skills

AI Skills Penetration
The aim of this indicator is to measure the intensity ofAI skills in an entity (in a particular country, industry,
gender, etc.) through the following methodology:• Compute frequencies for all self-added skills by
LinkedIn members in a given entity (occupation,industry, etc.) in 2015–2023.
• Re-weight skill frequencies using a TF-IDF model
to get the top 50 most representative skills inthat entity. These 50 skills compose the “skill
genome” of that entity.
• Compute the share of skills that belong to
the AI skill group out of the top skills in theselected entity.

are prevalent in an occupation representative, in any
sector where the occupation representative may
exist. Examples of such occupations include (but are
not limited to): Machine Learning Engineer, Artificial
Intelligence Specialist, Data Scientist, and Computer
Vision Engineer.

AI Talent
A LinkedIn member is considered AI talent if they
have explicitly added AI skills to their profile
and/or they are occupied in an AI occupation
representative. The counts of AI talent are used to
calculate talent concentration metrics. For example,
to calculate the country-level AI talent concentration,

Interpretation: The AI skill penetration rate signals
the prevalence of AI skills across occupations, or theintensity with which LinkedIn members utilize AI skillsin their jobs. For example, the top 50 skills for theoccupation of engineer are calculated based on the

we use the counts of AI talent at the country levelvis-a-vis the counts of LinkedIn members in therespective countries. Note that concentration metrics
may be influenced by LinkedIn coverage in thesecountries and should be utilized with caution.

weighted frequency with which they appear in LinkedIn

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Relative AI Skills Penetration

countries’ male/female AI skill penetrations to the

To allow for skills penetration comparisons acrossglobal average of the same gender. Since the global

countries, the skills genomes are calculated and aaverages are distinct for each gender, this metricrelevant benchmark is selected (e.g., global average).

should only be used to compare country rankings

A ratio is then constructed between a country’s andwithin each gender, and not for cross-gender

the benchmark’s AI skills penetrations, controllingcomparisons within countries.

for occupations.

Interpretation: A country’s AI skills penetration forInterpretation: A country’s relative AI skills penetration

women of 1.5 means that female members in thatof 1.5 indicates that AI skills are 1.5 times as frequent

country are 1.5 times more likely to list AI skills thanas in the benchmark, for an overlapping set ofthe average female member in all countries pooled

occupations.

together across the same set of occupations thatexist in the country/gender combination.

Global Comparison
For cross-country comparison, we present the relative

Global Comparison: Across Genders

penetration rate of AI skills, measured as the sum of

The “Relative AI Skills Penetration Across Genders”

the penetration of each AI skill across occupations

metric allows for cross-gender comparisons withinin a given country, divided by the average global

and across countries globally, since we compare thepenetration of AI skills across the overlapping

countries’ male/female AI skill penetrations to theoccupations in a sample of countries.

same global average regardless of gender.

Interpretation: A relative penetration rate of 2 means

Relative AI Talent Hiring Rate YoY Ratio

that the average penetration of AI skills in that country• L inkedIn Hiring Rate or Overall Hiring

is two times the global average across the same set

Rate is a measure of hires normalized byof occupations.

LinkedIn membership. It is computed as the

Global Comparison: By Industry

percentage of LinkedIn members who added

The relative AI skills penetration by country for industry
provides an in-depth sectoral decomposition of AI skill
penetration across industries and sample countries.
Interpretation: A country’s relative AI skill penetration
rate of 2 in the education sector means that the average
penetration of AI skills in that country is two times theglobal average across the same set of occupations in

a new employer in the same period the job
began, divided by the total number of LinkedIn
members in the corresponding location.
• A
 I Hiring Rate is computed following theoverall hiring rate methodology, but only
considering members classified as AI talent.
• R elative AI Talent Hiring Rate YoY Ratio isthat sector.

the year-over-year change in AI Hiring Rate

Global Comparison: By Gender

relative to Overall Hiring Rate in the same

The “Relative AI Skills Penetration by Gender”
metric provides a cross-country comparison of AI
skill penetrations within each gender, comparing
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then calculate YoY change of this ratio, and thenand destination countries, are normalized based ontake the 12-month moving average using the last

LinkedIn membership in country A at the end of each

12 months.

year and multiplied by 10,000. Hence, this metricInterpretation: In 2023 in India, the ratio of AI talenthiring relative to overall hiring has grown 16.8% year

indicates relative talent migration from all countries toand from country A.

AI Skills List Update Compared to Last Yearover year.

1. LinkedIn introduced “AI Literacy” skills.

AI Talent Migration
Data on migration comes from the World Bank Group–
LinkedIn “Digital Data for Development” partnership(please see Zhu et al. [2018]).
LinkedIn migration rates are derived from the selfidentified locations of LinkedIn member profiles. For
example, when a LinkedIn member updates his or
her location from Paris to London, this is counted asa migration. Migration data is available from 2019
onward. LinkedIn data provides insights into countries
on the AI Talent gained or lost due to migration trends.
AI Talent migration is considered for all memberswith AI Skills/holding AI jobs at time t for country A
as the country of interest and country B as the sourceof inflows and destination for outflows. Thus, net AI
Talent migration between country A and country B—for
country A—is calculated as follows:a. The following skills were added to the list andcategorized as “AI Literacy” skills: ChatGPT,DALL-E, GPT-3, GPT-4, Generative Art, Github
Copilot, Google Bard, Midjourney, Prompt
Engineering, and Stable Diffusion.
2. LinkedIn updated the former AI skills list andcategorized them as “AI Engineering” skills:
a. The following skills were excluded fromthe list: Alexa, Common Lisp, Data
Structures, Gaussian 03, Graph Theory, IBM
Watson, Information Retrieval, Jena, Julia(Programming Language), Linked Data, Lisp,
Pandas (Software), Parallel Algorithms, Perl
Automation, Resource Description Framework,
Smalltalk, and dSPACE.
b. The following skills were added to thelist: Apache Spark ML, Applied Machine
Learning, Audio Synthesis, Autoencoders,
Automated Clustering, Automated Feature

Net flows are defined as total arrivals minus departures
within the given time period. LinkedIn membershipvaries considerably between countries, which makes
interpreting absolute movements of members fromone country to another difficult. To compare migration
flows between countries fairly, migration flows arenormalized for the country of interest. For example,
if country A is the country of interest, all absolute net
flows into and out of country A, regardless of origin

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Trees, Deep Convolutional Generative
Adversarial Networks (DCGAN), Deep Neural
Networks (DNN), Generative AI, Generative
Adversarial Imitation Learning, Generative
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Design Optimization, Generative Flow Models,

PostgreSQL database delivery, and so on.

Generative Modeling, Generative Neural

Quid applies best-in-class AI and NLP to reveal

Networks, Generative Optimization, Generative

hidden patterns in large datasets, enabling users

Pre-training, Generative Query Networks

to make data-driven decisions accurately, quickly,(GQNs), Generative Replay Memory, Generativeand efficiently.

Synthesis, Google Cloud AutoML, Graph
Embeddings, Graph Networks, Hyperparameter
Optimization, Hyperparameter Tuning, Image
Generation, Image Inpainting, Image Synthesis,
Image-to-Image Translation, Large Language
Models (LLM), MLOps, Machine Learning
Algorithms, Machine Translation, Meta-learning,
Model Compression, Model Interpretation,
Model Training, Music Generation, Neural
Network Architecture Design, Predictive
Modeling, Probabilistic Generative Models,
Probabilistic Programming, Random Forest,
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Responsible
AI, Style Transfer, StyleGAN, Synthetic
Data Generation, Text Generation, Text-toImage Generation, Time Series Forecasting,Transformer Models, Variational Autoencoders,
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Video
Generation, and k-means clustering.

Search, Data Sources, and Scope
Over 8 million global public and private company
profiles from multiple data sources are indexed tosearch across company descriptions, while filteringand including metadata ranging from investment
information to firmographic information, such as
founded year, HQ location, and more. Company
information is updated on a weekly basis. The Quidalgorithm reads a large amount of text data fromeach document to make links between different
documents based on their similar language. This
process is repeated at an immense scale, which
produces a network with different clusters identifying
distinct topics or focus areas. Trends are identified
based on keywords, phrases, people, companies,
and institutions that Quid identifies, and the othermetadata that is put into the software.

Data
Companies

Quid

Organization data is embedded from Capital IQ and

Quid Insights prepared by Bill Valle and Heather English

organizations (private, public, operating, operating as

Crunchbase. These companies include all types of

Quid uses its own in-house LLM and other smart
search features, as well as traditional Boolean query,to search for focus areas, topics, and keywords withinmany datasets: social media, news, forums and blogs,
companies, patents, as well as other custom feeds ofdata (e.g., survey data). Quid has many visualization
options and data delivery endpoints, including networka subsidiary, out of business) throughout the world.
The investment data includes private investments,
M&A, public offerings, minority stakes made by PE/
VCs, corporate venture arms, governments, andinstitutions both within and outside the United States.
Some data is simply unreachable—for instance, wheninvestors’ names or funding amounts are undisclosed.

graphs based on semantic similarity, in-platform

Quid embeds Capital IQ data as a default anddashboarding capabilities, as well as programmatic

adds in data from Crunchbase for the data points

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that are not captured in Capital IQ. This not only

AI” OR “generative artificial intelligence”) for

yields comprehensive and accurate data on all global

companies that have received over $1.5M fororganizations, but it also captures early-stage startups

the last 10 years (January 1, 2013, to December

and funding events data. Company information is31, 2023).

updated on a weekly basis.

Target Event Definitions• P rivate investments: A private placement is a

Earnings Calls
Quid leverages earnings call transcript data embedded

private sale of newly issued securities (equityfrom Seeking Alpha. For this report, Quid has analyzed

or debt) by a company to a selected investor or

mentions of AI-related keywords across all earnings calla selected group of investors. The stakes thattranscripts from Fortune 500 companies from Januarybuyers take in private placements are often

2018 through December 2023. New earnings callminority stakes (under 50%), although it istranscript data is updated in Quid on the 1st and 15th ofpossible to take control of a company throughevery month.

a private placement as well, in which case theprivate placement would be a majority stake

Search Parameters
Boolean query is used to search for focus areas, topics,
and keywords within the archived company database,within their business descriptions and websites. We canfilter out the search results by HQ regions, investment
amount, operating status, organization type (private/public), and founding year. Quid then visualizes thesecompanies by semantic similarity. If there are more than
7,000 companies from the search result, Quid selects
the 7,000 most relevant companies for visualization
based on the language algorithm.
Boolean search: “artificial intelligence” or “AI” or“machine learning” or “deep learning”

investment.
• M inority investment: These refer to minority
stake acquisitions in Quid, which take placewhen the buyer acquires less than 50% of
the existing ownership stake in entities, asset
products, and business divisions.
• M
 &A: This refers to a buyer acquiring morethan 50% of the existing ownership stake inentities, asset products, and business divisions.

McKinsey & Company
Data used in the Corporate Activity–Industry
Adoption section was sourced from the McKinsey

Companies• Global AI and ML companies that have received
investments (private, IPO, M&A) from January 1,
2013, to December 31, 2023.

Global Survey “The State of AI in 2023: Generative
AI’s Breakout Year.”
The online survey was in the field April 11, 2023, to• Global AI and ML companies that have received

April 21, 2023, and garnered responses from 1,684

over $1.5M for the last 10 years (January 1, 2013,

participants representing the full range of regions,

to December 31, 2023).

industries, company sizes, functional specialties,• Global data was also pulled for a Generative AI
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and were asked questions about their organization’s AI
use. To adjust for differences in response rates, the data
is weighted by the contribution of each respondent’s
nation to global GDP.
The AI Index also considered data from previous
iterations of the survey. More specifically, the AI index
made use of data from:The State of AI in 2022—and a Half Decade in Review
The State of AI in 2021
The State of AI in 2020
AI Proves Its Worth, But Few Scale Impact (2019)
AI Adoption Advances, But Foundational Barriers
Remain (2018)

Stack Overflow
Data on the use of AI by developers was sourced fromthe 2023 Developer Survey. The survey was conductedfrom May 8, 2023, to May 19, 2023, and incorporates
the insights of 89,184 software developers from 185
countries around the world.

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Chapter 5: Science and Medicine
Acknowledgments
The AI Index would like to acknowledge Emma
Williamson for her work surveying the literature on
significant AI-related science and medicine trends.

Benchmarks
1. MedQA: Data on MedQA was taken from the
MedQA Papers With Code leaderboard in January
2024. To learn more about MedQA, please read theoriginal paper.

FDA-Approved AI-Medical
Devices
Data on FDA-approved AI-medical devices issourced from the FDA website that tracks artificial
intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)–enabled
medical devices.

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Code.org
State-Level Data

Computing Research Association (CRA) members

The following link includes a full description of theare 200-plus North American organizations active

methodology used by Code.org to collect its data. The

in computing research: academic departments

staff at Code.org also maintains a database of the stateof computer science and computer engineering;of American K–12 education and, in this policy primer,

laboratories and centers in industry, government, andprovides a greater amount of detail on the state ofacademia; and affiliated professional societies (AAAI,

American K–12 education in each state.

ACM, CACS/AIC, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM

AP Computer Science Data
The AP Computer Science data is provided to Code.org
as per an agreement the College Board maintains withCode.org. The AP Computer Science data comes fromthe college board’s national and state summary reports.

Access to Computer Science Education
Data on access to computer science education was
drawn from Code.org’s State of Computer Science
Education 2023 report.

USENIX). CRA’s mission is to enhance innovation
by joining with industry, government, and academia
to strengthen research and advance education incomputing. Learn more about CRA here.
The CRA Taulbee Survey gathers survey data during thefall of each academic year by reaching out to over 200
PhD-granting departments. Details about the Taulbee
Survey can be found here. Taulbee doesn’t directly
survey the students. The department identifies each
new PhD’s area of specialization as well as their typeComputing Research
Association(CRA Taulbee Survey)of employment. Data is collected from September toNote: This year’s AI Index reused the methodologicaldepartments of computer science, computer

notes that were submitted by the CRA for previous
editions of the AI Index. For more complete delineationsof the methodology used by the CRA, please consult theindividual CRA surveys that are linked below.

January of each academic year for PhDs awarded in theprevious academic year. Results are published in May
after data collection closes.
The CRA Taulbee Survey is sent only to doctoral
engineering, and information science/systems.
Historically, (a) Taulbee covers one-quarter to one-thirdof total BS CS recipients in the United States; (b) thepercentage of women earning bachelor’s degrees
is lower in the Taulbee schools than overall; and (c)Taulbee tracks the trends in overall CS production.

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The AI Index used data from the following iterations ofand concepts provided by these national agencies

the CRA survey:

and reflects the national situation in the countries
considered. Those aspects that are not exposed by the

CRA, 2022

consulted agencies are not part of the dataset. A full list

CRA, 2021

of definitions and concepts used can be found in the

CRA, 2020

footnotes shown at the bottom of the Statistics section.

CRA, 2019
CRA, 2018

Since each national data repository has its own

CRA, 2017

structure and quite often provides all supporting

CRA, 2016

information in the national language, Informatics

CRA, 2015

Europe consults with its members—academics,

CRA, 2014active and knowledgeable in the informatics field

CRA, 2013

from respective countries—who help to interpret the

CRA, 2012

statistics available and who understand the specificities

CRA, 2011of these countries’ higher education systems. Oneof the main challenges in integrating the statistical

Impact Researchdata is the identification of terms used to define theData on the usage of ChatGPT in schools among

is known under different names in different European

teachers and students came from two Impact Researchlanguages and countries, and in English as well. A good

surveys released in 2023. To learn more about thedozen terms (presented in the Data Portal section

methodology employed for the surveys, please visit the“Subjects”) are used to denote what is fundamentally

following links: March 2023 and July 2023.

the same discipline, and the role of national experts

Informatics Europe

informatics discipline in different countries. Informatics

here is to help with screening the terms and programs
and identifying which part of them is pertinent to the

The statistics are annually collected by Informatics

informatics field.

Europe and published on the Informatics Europe

The data covers the degrees delivered by bothHigher Education Data Portal, which is updated withtraditional Research Universities (RU) and University ofthe most recent data at the end of the year (typically

Applied Science (UAS) for the countries where thesein December). In the interest of reliability, Informatics

institutions also offer bachelor’s and master’s studies

Europe collects the data from countries where a solid

in informatics. The full list of institutions covered canand reasonably complete picture could be drawn

be found in the Data Portal section “Institutions &from official sources such as national statistical

Academic Units.”

offices, educational agencies, or ministries. The fulllist of sources can be found in the Data Portal section“Data Sources.” The Data Portal follows the definitions

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Studyportals

Studyportals categorizes the study programs on its

Studyportals is the world’s most comprehensive study

disciplines are broad categories of educational fields

choice platform. It lists over 200,000 English-taught

to help navigate the portals. The 284 subdisciplines

programs from more than 3,500 institutions, helping

are narrower topics, subdivisions, or specialized

over 50 million students per year. The Studyportals

areas of disciplines. Paying clients can provide input,

analytics and consulting team uses the resulting data

but ultimately, data processors manually choose theto provide higher education organizations with real-

one-to-three closest fitting subdisciplines according

time market insights.

to the following scenarios, listed in decreasing order

portals into disciplines and subdisciplines. The 15

of likelihood.

1. Classic scenario: When the study name closely matches one subdiscipline name.
		a. “Chemistry” -> subdiscipline Chemistry.
2. C lassic interdisciplinary scenario: When the study name closely matches two or three subdiscipline names.
		a. 
“International Fashion Management and Marketing” -> subdisciplines Fashion Management + Marketing.
3. Specializations scenario: When not all the subdisciplines are mentioned in the study name, but they arelisted as specific specializations, concentrations, or tracks.
		a. 
“Business Administration with specializations in Finance and International Business” -> subdisciplines
Business Administration + Finance + International Business
4. Mixed scenario: When the study name does not closely match any specific subdiscipline but can be
represented by combining two or three subdisciplines.
		a. 
“Financial Economics” -> subdisciplines Finance + Economics
5. Last resort scenario: When the study name does not closely match any specific subdiscipline and/or
combination, it is instead approximated as closely as possible.
		a. “UK, EU, and US Copyright Law” -> subdisciplines Patent & Intellectual Property Law + International Law+ European Law

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Scenario

Example study nameExample assigned
subdisciplines

Study name closely matches one
subdiscipline name.

BSc Chemistry

Chemistry

Study name closely matches two or
three subdiscipline names.

BA International Fashion
Management and Marketing

Fashion Management +Marketing

Not all the subdisciplines are mentioned
in the study name, but they are listed as
specific specializations, concentrations,or tracks.

MBA Business Administration withspecializations in Finance andInternational BusinessBusiness
Administration +Finance + International
Business

Study name does not closely match
any specific subdiscipline but can be
represented by combining two or threesubdisciplines.

MSc Financial Economics

Finance + Economics

Study name does not closely match
any specific subdiscipline and/or combination and is instead
approximated as closely as possible.

LLM UK, EU, and US Copyright Law

Patent and Intellectual
Property Law +International Law +European Law

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Chapter 7: Policy and GovernanceAcknowledgments

SAR, China, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta,

The AI Index would like to acknowledge Simba Jonga

Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Pakistan,for his work collecting information on significant
AI policy events and conducting a survey of AI
national strategies. Additionally, the Index would liketo acknowledge the efforts of Ethan Duncan He-Li
Hellman, Julia Betts Lotufo, Alexandra Rome, andEmma Williamson in collecting, coding, and analyzing
AI-related legislation and regulations. The Index isalso grateful for the guidance provided by Caroline
Meinhardt on AI legislation and regulation tracking.

Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New
Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Russia, Samoa, San Marino,
Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovenia, South
Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden,
Switzerland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine,
United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Zambia,
Zimbabwe

Global AI Mentions

Global Legislation Records
on AI

For mentions of AI in AI-related legislative proceedings

For AI-related bills passed into laws, the AI Index

around the world, the AI Index performed searches of
the keyword “artificial intelligence” on the websitesof 80 countries’ congresses or parliaments (in therespective languages), usually under sections named“minutes,” “hansard,” etc. In some cases, databases
were only searchable by title, so site search functions
were deployed. The AI Index team surveyed thefollowing databases:

performed searches of the keyword “artificial
intelligence” on the websites of 128 countries’
congresses or parliaments (in the respective
languages) in the full text of bills. Note that only laws
passed by state-level legislative bodies and signed
into law (i.e., by presidents or through royal assent)from 2016 to 2023 are included. Laws that wereapproved but then repealed are not included in the

Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan,

analysis. In some cases, there were databases that

Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Bhutan, Brazil, Cabo,

were only searchable by title, so site search functions

Verde, Canada, Cayman Islands, China,12 Czech

were deployed. Future AI Index reports hope to

Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El

include analysis on other types of legal documents,

Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, The Gambia,

such as regulations and standards, adopted by state-

Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, India,

or supranational-level legislative bodies, government

Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo,

agencies, etc. The AI Index team surveyed databases

Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macao

for the following countries:

12 The National People’s Congress is held once per year and does not provide full legislative proceedings. Hence, the counts included in the analysis only searched mentions of “artificial
intelligence” in the only public document released from the Congress meetings, the Report on the Work of the Government, delivered by the premier.

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Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola,
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia
Austria, Azerbaijan The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh,
Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda,
Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China,
Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland,
France, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar,
Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala,
Guyana, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran
Islamic Republic, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy,
Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea
Republic, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lebanon,
Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao SAR
China, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico,
Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Nauru,
The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger,
Northern Marina Islands, Norway, Panama, Papua New
Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa,
Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Sweden,
Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tongo, Turkey,
Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United
Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Yemen,

EU AI Regulation
The AI Index also gathered information on AI-related
regulations enacted in the European Union between
2017 and 2023. To compile this data, the Index
team conducted a keyword search for “artificial
intelligence” on EUR-Lex, a comprehensive databaseof EU legislation, regulations, and case law. EURLex provides access to a wide range of regulatory
documents, such as legal acts, consolidated texts,
international agreements, preparatory documents,and legislative procedures. The analysis in thissection focused exclusively on documents withbinding regulatory authority. The search for AI-related
regulation in the European Union was limited to legal
acts, international agreements, and consolidated texts.
The regulation was then coded by a team of two
human coders for: (1) relevance to AI, (2) regulatory
approach, and (3) subject matter. The relevance
to AI categories were low, medium, and high. The
regulatory approach categories were expansive or
restrictive. For the subject matter categories, theIndex employed the Congress policy typology. In
cases where there were disagreements on the coding
schemas, a third coder was brought in to settle theZambia, Zimbabwe

differences.

The legislation was then coded by a team of two
approach, and (3) subject matter. The relevance to AI

Federal Budget for
Nondefense AI R&D

categories were low, medium, and high. The regulatory

Data on the federal U.S. budget for nondefense

approach categories were expansive or restrictive. For

AI R&D was taken from previous editions of thethe subject matter categories, the Index employed the

AI Index (namely the 2021 and 2022 versions) andCongress policy typology. In cases where there werefrom the following National Science and Technology

disagreements on the coding schemas, a third coder

Council reports:

human coders for: (1) relevance to AI, (2) regulatory

was brought in to settle the differences.

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Supplement to the President’s FY 2024 Budget

terms that yield erroneous results, Govini delivers

Supplement to the President’s FY 2023 Budget

a comprehensive yet discriminant taxonomy ofSupplement to the President’s FY2022 Budget

subsegments that are mutually exclusive. Repeatedkeyword searches and filters allow a consensus,

Govinidata-driven taxonomy to come into focus. Govini

Govini is a defense technology company. Ark, Govini’s

complement this iterative, data-driven process.

SMEs conduct final review of taxonomic structure to

flagship software, is a suite of AI-enabled applications,powered by integrated government and commercial

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and supervised

data, that accelerate the Defense Acquisition Process.

ML models enables analysis of the large volumesof irregular data contained in federal contracts—

With Ark, the acquisition community eliminates

data that often is inaccessible through regularslow, manual processes and gains the ability

government reporting processes or human-intensive

to rapidly imagine, produce, and field criticalanalytical approaches.

warfighting capabilities. Analysts and decisionmakers are equipped to solve challenges across theMoreover, beyond simply making usable anentire spectrum of Defense Acquisition, including

expansive body of data sources, Govini’s Ark

Supply Chain, Science and Technology, Production,

platform and National Security Knowledge Graph

Sustainment, and Modernization.

establishes high-fidelity standards in categorized andfused data to produce a comprehensive and accurate

Govini curated USG AI spend data from their annual

depiction of federal spending, and the supporting

Scorecard Taxonomy by applying supervised machine

vendor ecosystem, over time.

learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP)
techniques to parse, analyze, and categorize large
volumes of federal contracts data, including prime

National AI Strategies

contracts, grants, and other transaction authority (OTA)

The AI Index did a web search to identify national

awards. Govini’s most recent Scorecard focused on

strategies on AI. Below is a list of countries that were

Critical Technologies, of which AI/ML Technologies andidentified as having a national AI strategy, including a

Microelectronics were segments. The AI/ML segmentlink to said strategy. For certain counties, noted withconsisted of five subsegments: Data Integration,

an asterisk (*), the actual strategy was not found, andComputer Vision, Machine Learning, Autonomy,

a news article confirming the launch of the strategy

and Natural Language Processing. Microelectronics

was linked instead.

is divided into two subsegments: Memory andProcessing, and Semiconductors. By initially generating
search terms and then subsequently excluding specific

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The regulation was then coded by a team of two

Algeria,* Argentina, Azerbaijan,* Australia, Austria,

human coders for: (1) relevance to AI, (2) regulatory

Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin,* Botswana,* Brazil,

approach, and (3) subject matter. The relevance

Belgium,* Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia,

to AI categories were low, medium, and high. The

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican

regulatory approach categories were expansive or

Republic,* Egypt, Arab Republic, Ethiopia, Estonia,

restrictive. For the subject matter categories, theFinland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong,

Index employed the Congress policy typology.

Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran,* Iraq,* Ireland, Israel,*

In cases where there were disagreements on the

Italy, Japan, Jordan,* Kenya, Korea Republic, Latvia,

coding schemas, a third coder was brought in to

Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Malaysia, Mauritius,settle differences.

Mexico, The Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Peru,
Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia,
Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore,
Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Thailand, Tunisia,* Turkey, Ukraine, United ArabEmirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay,
VietnamData on the DoD nonclassified AI-related budget
requests was taken from previous editions of the AI
Index (namely the 2021 and 2022 versions) and fromCountries with AI Strategies in Development
Andorra,* Antigua and Barbuda,* Barbados,* Armenia,*
Belarus,* Costa Rica,* Cuba,* Iceland, Jamaica,*
Kenya, Morocco, New Zealand,* Nigeria,* Pakistan,*
Senegal,* Uzbekistan

the following reports:
Defense Budget Overview United States Departmentof Defense Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request
Defense Budget Overview United States Departmentof Defense Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request

US AI Regulation
This section examines AI-related regulations enacted
by American regulatory agencies between 2016 and2023. It provides an analysis of the total number ofregulations, as well as their topics, scope, regulatory
intent, and originating agencies. To compile thisdata, the AI Index team performed a keyword searchfor “artificial intelligence” on the Federal Register, acomprehensive repository of government documentsfrom nearly all branches of the American government,
encompassing more than 436 agencies.

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Defense Budget Overview United States Departmentof Defense Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request

US State-Level AI Legislation
For AI-related bills passed into law, the AI Index
performed searches of the keyword “artificial
intelligence” on the legislative websites of all 50 U.S.
states in the full text of bills. Bills are only counted
as passed into law if the final version of the billincludes the keyword, not just the introduced version.
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Chapter 7: Policy and Governancelaws that were proposed and eventually passed as wellas laws that were proposed that have not yet been
passed, or are now inactive. In some cases, databases
were only searchable by title, so site search functions
were deployed. The AI Index team surveyed thefollowing databases:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico,
New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin, Wyoming

US Committee Mentions
In order to research trends on the United States’committee mentions of AI, the following search
was conducted:
Website: Congress.gov
Keyword: artificial intelligence
Filters: Committee Reports

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Chapter 8: Diversity

Chapter 8: Diversity
Code.org
To learn more about the diversity data from Code.org,
please read the methodological note on Code.org’s
data included in the Chapter 6 subsection of
the Appendix.

Computing Research
Association(CRA Taulbee Survey)
To learn more about the diversity data from the CRA,
please read the methodological note on the CRA’s data
included in the Chapter 6 subsection of the Appendix.

Informatics Europe
To learn more about the diversity data from Informatics
Europe, please read the methodological note on
Informatics Europe’s data included in the Chapter 6
subsection of the Appendix.

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Global Public Opinion on
Artificial Intelligence (GPO-AI)
In October and November 2023, researchers at the
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society(SRI) and the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab(PEARL) at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public
Policy at the University of Toronto completed a survey
project on public perceptions of and attitudes toward
AI. The survey was administered to census-targeted
samples of over 1,000 people in each of 21 countries,
for a total of 23,882 surveys conducted in 12 languages.
The countries sampled represent a majority of theworld’s population. To learn more about the survey,
please visit the survey website. The following authors

Quid Social Media Data
Quid collects social media data from over 500 million
sources in real time and analyzes this data throughAI-powered natural language processing. This processparses out language and breaks out posts by filterssuch as drivers of positive and negative sentiment,
emotions, and behaviors, allowing for deeper insights
to be reached. Quid analyzed 6.69 million social media
posts for 2023 to assess perceptions of AI model
releases. The substantial increase in new models in
2023 unveiled reactions to the technical advancements
in AI, the impact on efficiency in business operations,and ethical considerations as AI continues to be
adopted into society.

contributed to the GPO-AI survey: Peter John Loewen,
Blake Lee-Whiting, Maggie Arai, Thomas Bergeron,Thomas Galipeau, Isaac Gazendam, Hugh Needham,
Lee Slinger, Sofiya Yusypovych.

Ipsos
For brevity, the 2024 AI Index does not republish themethodology used by the Ipsos survey that featuresin the report. More details about the Ipsos survey’s
methodology can be found in the actual survey.

Pew Research
For brevity, the 2024 AI Index does not republish themethodology used by the Pew surveys that feature in
the report. Data was taken from the 2023 Pew ResearchCenter survey.

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