Stanford AI100 Report Finds Scaling Limits as AI’s Impact Widens

Stanford HAI announced the third One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence report on November 10, 2026. It concludes that the scaling strategy behind generative AI is encountering data and cost limits as AI’s effects spread through science, security and public institutions. Titled AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI, the study follows reports in 2016 and 2021. AI100 launched in 2014 and convenes a study panel every five years. University of Oxford professor...