Claim LD06-SL-C02 (v1.0)
The 2026 AI Index states that the benchmark scores in its technical-performance chapter come from leaderboards, public repositories and company disclosures, including papers, blog posts and product releases, and that it “assumes that company-reported results are accurate”, while its introduction says that “independent testing does not always confirm what developers report”.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- A claim that any particular company-reported score is wrong, or how many of the index’s figures are company-reported
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026
- Source type (field 7)
- INDEPENDENT_RESEARCH_REPORT (as printed: “Annual index report”)
- Institutional position
- University-based index (Stanford HAI)
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- MATURE (as printed: “MATURE”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-10-15
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD06-SL-C02--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026” → SRC-SL-AI-INDEX-2026-ANNUAL-REPORT--v1.0 — Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026; class INDEPENDENT_RESEARCH_REPORT (explicit public provenance pin)
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD06-SL-C02 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | The 2026 AI Index states that the benchmark scores in its technical-performance chapter come from leaderboards, public repositories and company disclosures, including papers, blog posts and product releases, and that it “assumes that company-reported results are accurate”, while its introduction says that “independent testing does not always confirm what developers report”. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | FACT | base_types: FACT |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | B — Leaderboards, judges and disclosure | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | MATURE | states: MATURE |
| 6 | SOURCE | Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026 | source_ids: SRC-SL-AI-INDEX-2026-ANNUAL-REPORT |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Annual index report | classes: INDEPENDENT_RESEARCH_REPORT |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | University-based index (Stanford HAI) | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | The technical-performance chapter of the 2026 report | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Statement of method in the report | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Benchmark scores reported as of early 2026 | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | Not applicable | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | None | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | “Scores are sourced from leaderboards, public repositories, and company disclosures, including papers, blog posts, and product releases. The AI Index assumes that company-reported results are accurate.” | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Whether a widely relayed index verifies developers’ own benchmark scores | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | A claim that any particular company-reported score is wrong, or how many of the index’s figures are company-reported | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Covers one chapter of one edition; the share of the chapter’s scores that are company-reported was not counted | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | The same chapter notes cases where models did worse in independent testing than developers reported; on falling developer disclosure, LD06-SL-C17 | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | Global / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | Not analysed in this claim | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | LD-06, D4b | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | A later edition that verifies or marks company-reported scores | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER | state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-10-15 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: LD-06 (LIVING_DEBATE); D4b (SUB_AREA)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 71df6b9d2e0d21c7fee35bdee5658618c93d543cca072dbd8847035e832b0bfd.
Repository-authored inputs (not Drive exports)
- SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C02 v1.0 (v1.0) — written in the SocioLens repository by Project Lead (Claude, AI) on 2026-10-15; no Drive identity exists. Authority: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts. Block “ENTRY 02 — LD06-SL-C02” SHA-256
95f35a5f492872212587a230dd97f5366f59551642b1624492acaea7ab2959da; fixturefixtures/authored/claims/LD06-SL-C02--v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the repository-authored claim fixture version (SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C02 v1.0); the first version of a new Claim of the LD-06 debate
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: repository-authored claim "SocioLens claim — LD06-SL-C02 v1.0" (Project Lead (Claude, AI), 2026-10-15); basis: AGENTS.md "Authority" (the Project Lead decides research content within the research-integrity rules) and the Owner's choice in the SocioLens project chat on 15 October 2026 to build the LD-06 debate; a new Claim, first version, written from the project's LD-06 source notes, checked against full texts or official abstracts
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-SL-AI-INDEX-2026-ANNUAL-REPORT--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 02 — LD06-SL-C02 cites "Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026"; the only field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's repository-authored ledger block.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-SL-AI-INDEX-2026-ANNUAL-REPORT--v1.0 — basis: explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion (Amendment v1.2 §6): the pinned field-6 Source record "Sajadieh, Fattorini, Perrault, Gil, Parli et al., “The AI Index 2026 Annual Report,” AI Index Steering Committee, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University, April 2026".