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

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Podcast: [Modem Futura](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675)
Published: 2026-04-28T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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