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id: "entity-stanford-ai-index-2025"
type: "entity"
source_timestamps: ["\\\"§ Why China", "and Why Now?\\\""]
tags: ["research-report", "consumer-sentiment"]
related: ["framework-conditions-for-agentic-scale"]
entityType: "other"
canonicalName: "Stanford AI Index 2025"
aliases: ["Stanford HAI AI Index Report", "AI Index Report 2025"]
sources: ["geo"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-geo"
originDay: 3
articleStem: "hbr-ext-15-china-ai-agents-commerce"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/research-what-chinas-ai-agents-reveal-about-the-future-of-commerce"
sourceTitle: "Research: What China’s AI Agents Reveal About the Future of Commerce"
---
# Stanford AI Index 2025

## Profile
A research index cited in the article. Canonical publication (enrichment): the **Stanford HAI AI Index Report**, a widely cited annual benchmark on AI trends, adoption, and perception.

## Role in this source
It supplies the source's headline consumer-readiness statistic: **83% of respondents in China** see AI-powered products and services as offering more benefits than drawbacks, versus **only 39% in the United States** — evidence for condition #4 (consumer readiness) in [[framework-conditions-for-agentic-scale]] and support for [[claim-china-edge-is-plumbing]].

> Enrichment — VALIDATE: the specific China/U.S. statistic should be validated against the report text before being quoted as authoritative.