Is AI development slowing down?

Short answer, updated 2026-11-06: the news says Race dominant. The Race Index (military integration, centralization, economic dependency) stands at 2.47; the Slowdown Index (model governance, compute control, international cooperation, public narrative) stands at 1.59, on a scale from 0 to 3. The gap is 0.88 and the alert level is DANGER.

Which brakes are working, which accelerators are not

• Military Integration (accelerator): 2.65 / 3, stable
• Centralization (accelerator): 2.61 / 3, stable
• Public Narrative (brake): 2.34 / 3, stable
• Model Governance (brake): 2.12 / 3, decreasing
• Economic Dependency (accelerator): 2.09 / 3, decreasing
• International Cooperation (brake): 1.18 / 3, stable
• Compute Control (brake): 0.79 / 3, stable

How this answer is built

Every hour we read 14 international tech, defense and policy news feeds. A language model assigns each relevant article to one of seven dimensions with a score from -1 to +1, and each dimension is recomputed over the last 90 days with recent news weighing more. It measures what the news reports, not what is happening inside labs: it is a monitoring instrument, not a forecast. Full explanation: methodology.

Use the data

The daily history is free through a public JSON API, no key needed, CC BY 4.0, credit "AI-mageddon (ai27.org)": ai27.org/api/v1/history. Back to the live dashboard.