UNDP's 2025 Human Development Report examines what distinguishes this new era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from previous digital transformations and what those differences could mean for human development including how AI can enhance or subvert human agency. People are already interacting with AI in different ways at different stages of life, in effect scoping out possibilities good and bad and underscoring how context and choices can make all the difference. Human agency is the price when people buy into AI hype, which can exacerbate exclusion and harm sustainability A global survey for this Report found that at all levels of the Human Development Index (HDI), AI use is already substantial (for about 20 percent of respondents) and is expected to shoot up fast. About two-thirds of respondents in low, medium and high HDI countries expect to use AI in education, health and work—the three HDI dimensions. HDR 2025 includes the Human Development Index, a development ranking of 198 countries.