AI Predictions for 2026

Having AI autonomously work for you in the background will be the dominant trend, think of "digital twins" meet promises of Her/Jarvis.

• First major wave of "hacks" targetting these users. Too much power over their lives, too little guardrails.
• Opus 5 release will cause a major ethical and geopolotical freak-out, Anthropic will be forced to temporary block access to it. Heavy users will become acutely aware of the fragility of their situation and their dependency to these companies.
• People will get fully bamboozled by AI thinking that it is more than a stochastic parrot, a trend of "believers" in AI/AGI overlord will emerge, this will be intense and exploited.

Then it will crash.