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The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index

Podcast: Modem Futura
Published: Apr 28, 2026
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Summary

Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard unpack Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index Report — the jagged frontier of capability, the widening gap between experts and the public, and what it means to build responsibly when a technology is spreading faster than the institutions meant to understand it.