We predicted the future of AI in 2025…were we right? Plus our 2026 predictions | Human in the Loop Episode 16

Today on Human in the Loop, Sam Denton, Emily Xue, and Dani Gorman are reviewing predictions the team made 6 months ago and seeing if they came true or not. They end by making some predictions for 2026.

The predictions they made 6 months ago are:

• Agents will finally hit production in enterprises within six months.

• Work-life balance will improve because people will trust agents to run jobs asynchronously
• Enterprises will eventually adopt fully autonomous, long-running agents (with new UX/UI paradigms)
• Enterprise AI evaluations will flip from mostly text-based to mostly action-based.
• A meaningful chunk of companies will temporarily give up on AI, not because AI fails, but because they chose the wrong use cases.

What do you think? Did they get any of them right? Let us know in the YouTube comments.

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