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Stanford’s 2026 AI Index documents AI surpassing human baselines on some structured benchmarks while remaining substantially weaker on analog-clock reading and real household tasks; this supports a claim of domain-specific superiority but qualifies the broad claim that humans are no longer the smartest overall. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Technical Performance — The 2026 AI Index Report · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:db6a427ca8ef4adf6733138306dfe68a8dea3928cf4d193f295568c35d081fef

AI capability is outpacing the benchmarks designed to measure it, and surpassing human-level performance. ... AI models can win a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad but still can’t reliably tell time, illustrating what researchers call jagged intelligence. ... Robots succeed in only 12% of real household tasks.