A Coruña, April 11, 2025 – The Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) at Stanford University (USA) has just released its latest global AI report. This document provides an overview of the global AI situation and analyzes data related to eight major areas of the economic and social fabric: research and development, technical performance, responsible AI, economics, science and medicine, politics, education and public opinion; covering 75 geographic areas and extracted from multiple sources.
Some of the highlights of the report are:
- The most advanced AI systems are related to the generation of high-quality videos or language model agents.
- Companies continue to bet on AI, which drives investment and record use as research shows a strong impact on productivity.
- The United States continues to lead the production of AI models, but China is narrowing the gap.
- AI and computer science training is expanding, but gaps in access and preparedness persist.
- AI is becoming increasingly efficient, affordable and accessible. Energy efficiency, for example, has improved by 40% per year.
- Complex reasoning remains a challenge for artificial intelligence models.
In this global context, Spain occupies a prominent place in certain areas, such as the integration of robots into its economy (4th country with the highest annual growth after India, the United Kingdom and Canada in 2023 compared to 2022), public spending on AI-related contracts (among the top 5 European countries) or the percentage of job vacancies requiring AI skills (close to the United Kingdom and above the Netherlands).
In education, the United States remains a global leader in graduate training in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at all levels, but followed by Spain, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
Special mention should be made of chapters 3 and 6, which highlight the need for responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence. According to the report, AI-related incidents are dramatically increasing and tools are needed to assess their safety and reliability; issues on which the Spanish Agency for Artificial Intelligence Supervision (AESIA) is working very actively in close cooperation with other European institutions. In this regard, in 2024, global cooperation between governments on AI governance was intensified and frameworks focusing on transparency, reliability and other fundamental principles of responsible AI were published, with the European Union taking a prominent place.
The report also focuses on the role that different governments are playing within the AI ecosystem, in particular in relation to investment and regulation. Worldwide, legislative references to AI increased by 21.3% in 75 countries since 2023. From 2016 to 2024, Spain is the sixth country with the largest number of bills approved in relation to AI, and ranks first in legislative citations for that period. However, AI legislation is led by the United States: in 2016 it only had a state law passed on it, but in 2023 it reached 49 and only last year it reached 131.
Another aspect highlighted by the report is the large-scale investment that governments are making in this technology. In this ranking, Spain is the fourth European country with the highest public investment in AI (after the UK, Germany and France), and for the period from 2013 to 2023 it is one of the countries, together with Belgium and France, with a more steady growth.
The challenge for Spain, according to data extracted from the report, revolves around the reduction of the gender gap, both in terms of the penetration of skills in AI and the concentration of talent around this technology. There is also an important road ahead in terms of the perception of the population about artificial intelligence, since Spain remains in a position that tends more towards nervousness than towards optimism when it comes to evaluating the products and services that use AI.
All of these areas where Spain in general and AESIA in particular, continue to work on a daily basis to harness the benefits of AI for society as a whole and to reduce its potential risks in the interests of protecting citizens and their fundamental rights.
The full report is available at the following link:
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