My predictions about AI in 2026

[Jason Voorhees]

I've posted about AI and Tech industry and it's implications like a broken record at this point. Just search for my name with AI in the title and you'll see dozens of threads.

I've been tracking the finance plays, stocks(NVDA) OpenAl drama, and all the hype vs reality threads. 2025 was wild. We saw the rise of Deepseek giving western firms a run for their money in early 2025. The meteroic rise of Geminie, chatgpt closing deals after deals and GPT-5.2 just dropped a few days ago btw also massive layoffs which was blamed on Al efficiency and tbe bubble fears that grew everywhere even as funding hit records in Al.

Here's my educated guesses for next year

1. Al Bubble Partial Shakeout. Suprise to noeone I know but 2025 saw Al grab 50-80% of global VC ($200B+ poured in) but the hype is definitely cooling down as reports of zero ROl on trillions spent. Expect this mindless spending to die. 60-80% of those "Al wrapper" startups raised billions on promises, delivered nothing to either fold, get acquired cheap, or pivot.


2. OpenAI Ships Next Big Leap GPT-6 or o-series.GPT-5.2 just landed a few days back Dec 2025 and it's now stronger on coding/math/ professional tasks. Internal leaks confirmed Sam Altman issued a Code Red to ship it early because Google Gemini 3 in Nov 2025 had overtaken GPT-5 on the leaderboards it is still behind Google Gemini 3 but not by much. Altman has also teased about a big upgrade Q1 2026. We are now seeing a pullback from General Purpose Agents to a pivot to Narrow Agents like an agent that only does supply chain invoicing and nothing else. These will be the new META moving forward. Expect to see these multimodal agents that actually work autonomously like 8+ hour workflows coming soon


3. Entry level White-Collar Automation 2025 proved my old threads right. Al hit entry level office jobs hard: 55k+ US layoffs directly tied to it. All mostly entry level and repetitive account type work got eaten up by AI. There was Reduction in 40-50% of new openings in the US while AI benefited the skilled professionals by making them more efficient and made them more money and helped ship products faster. There were big winners and big losers. So with introduction of agentic AI and multimodal agents expect this trend to continue and the gap to widen


4. Deepfake Scandals Force Heavy Regulations 2025 saw deepfakes exploding eveywhere. There was election fraud, porn, fraud losses over $300M+. EU Al Act was enforced making labeling/ watermarks mandator US states/fed bills also had the famous TAKE IT DOWN Act implemented i expect this to continue in 2026 forcing bias audits, deepfake bans in ads/media. Also expect the rrhe Rise of "small language models" (SLMs). With the hardware like the iPhone 17 or Pixel 10 and new NPU laptops. I geel 2026 will be the year most consumer Al moves to on device. As Privacy concerns and cloud costs pile up and will force Apple/Google to run the daily driver Al locally.


These are my predictions what are yours? What do you think is the future of AI?

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@SplashJuice @Glorious King @Swarthy Knight @BigBallsLarry @Insomnia

 

[spanishmog]

how realistic are sex robots replacing women in 20-25 yrs

 

[BigBallsLarry]

I've posted about AI and Tech industry and it's implications like a broken record at this point. Just search for my name with AI in the title and you'll see dozens of threads.

I've been tracking the finance plays, stocks(NVDA) OpenAl drama, and all the hype vs reality threads. 2025 was wild. We saw the rise of Deepseek giving western firms a run for their money in early 2025. The meteroic rise of Geminie, chatgpt closing deals after deals and GPT-5.2 just dropped afew days ago btw Altman's code red agents finally shipped also massive layoffs which was blamed on Al efficiency and tbe bubble fears that grew everywhere even as funding hit records in Al.

Here's my educated guesses for next year

1. Al Bubble Partial Shakeout. Suprise to noeone I know but 2025 saw Al grab 50-80% of global VC ($200B+ poured in) but the hype is definitely cooling down as reports of zero ROl on trillions spent. Expect this mindless spending to die. 60-80% of those "Al wrapper" startups raised billions on promises, delivered nothing to either fold, get acquired cheap, or pivot.


2. OpenAI Ships Next Big Leap GPT-6 or o-series.GPT-5.2 just landed a few days back Dec 2025 and it's now stronger on coding/math/ professional tasks but still behind Google Gemini 3. Altman has also teased about a big upgrade Q1 2026. Expect multimodal agents that actually work autonomously like 8+ hour workflows coming soon


3. Entry level White-Collar Automation 2025 proved my old threads right. Al hit entry level office jobs hard: 55k+ US layoffs directly tied to it. All mostly entry level and repetitive account type work got eaten up by AI. There was Reduction in 40-50% of new openings in the US while AI benefited the skilled professionals by making them more efficient and made them more money and helped ship products faster. There were big winners and big losers. So with introduction of agentic AI and multimodal agents expect this trend to continue and the gap to widen


4. Deepfake Scandals Force Heavy Regulations 2025 saw deepfakes exploding eveywhere. There was election fraud, porn, fraud losses over $300M+. EU Al Act was enforced making labeling/ watermarks mandator US states/fed bills also had the famous TAKE IT DOWN Act implemented i expect this to continue in 2026 forcing bias audits, deepfake bans in ads/media.


These are my predictions what are yours? What do you think is the future of AI?

My prediction is

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@BeanCelll @MouthBreathingElite @imontheloose @Gomez

 

[BigBallsLarry]

how realistic are sex robots replacing women in 20-25 yrs

Replacing women? Never on a large scale.

Ultra-Realistic sex robots being here? Maybe a decade or two, Bladerunner with its 2049 timeline was actually pretty accurate.

 

[lalalanotlistening]

sora 3 or an even better video generator i hope

 

[SplashJuice]

how realistic are sex robots replacing women in 20-25 yrs

Perhaps not 20-25 years but when it does come it won't be a total replacement, but rather a huge niche that can't be ignored.

 

[unknownincel]

Intrigued

 

[SplashJuice]

Great predictions. There's going to be a crash then correction like the dot com era. Hard to say where jobs are going with this it's too early to predict about making more jobs or ceasing jobs in the long run.

 

[MouthBreathingElite]

Perhaps not 20-25 years but when it does come it won't be a total replacement, but rather a huge niche that can't be ignored.

Doubt itll be a niche, people will only grow uglier

 

[DrunkenSailor]

What do you think is the future of AI?

I hope it crashes down and all those richy richy pedo fuckers who invested trillions in it get arse fisted

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Eskorbutin @jeoyw9192 @Orka @dumb

 

[Orka]

zero ROl on trillions spent.

This is insane lol

 

[SplashJuice]

Doubt itll be a niche, people will only grow uglier

By niche I meant under 50 percent. Religious types, simps and non sub 5s are still the majority for now.

Esther Viler mentioned it in her book 'the manipulated man', every function of a woman can be replaced by a robot. When robots become advanced enough to look hyper realistic and give out babies and the quasi foid worship religion dies out. Then there is a good chance of hitting over 50 percent. For now that seems like a long way away though.

 

[dumb]

@Eskorbutin @jeoyw9192 @Orka @dumb

After seeing the progression of sora i know im 100% getting scammed by AI, i hope the development staggers rather than improve

 

[dumb]

By niche I meant under 50 percent. Religious types, simps and non sub 5s are still the majority for now.

Esther Viler mentioned it in her book 'the manipulated man', every function of a woman can be replaced by a robot. When robots become advanced enough to look hyper realistic and give out babies and the quasi foid worship religion dies out. Then there is a good chance of hitting over 50 percent. For now that seems like a long way away though.

great book btw

source:
https://ia904609.us.archive.org/5/items/the-manipulated-man_202201/The Manipulated Man.pdf

 

[Eskorbutin]

Ive been doing more research for my freelancing and I feel like AI gigs are definitely in the rise too, I'll try to get some professional experience soon and try to cash in the custom agent/flow AI setup for small businesses niche as they'll want to move their infra and stuff. I feel like it's the time

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Great predictions. There's going to be a crash then correction like the dot com era. Hard to say where jobs are going with this it's too early to predict about making more jobs or ceasing jobs in the long run.

I honestly doubt we will see an abrupt crash like the 2000s era. The Dot com crash happened because companies with zero revenue like Pets.com were valued at billions. When the cash ran out they vanished overnight. These AI companies do have demand and are are already critical for many workflows i expect a rolling correction throughout 2026 and 2027 like the inflated valuations slowly deflating and non differentiated wrapper startups slowly fading away instead of dramatic crash

 

[Eskorbutin]

I honestly doubt we will see an abrupt crash like the 2000s era. The Dot com crash happened because companies with zero revenue like Pets.com were valued at billions. When the cash ran out they vanished overnight. These AI companies do have demand and are are already critical for many workflows i expect a rolling correction throughout 2026 and 2027 like the inflated valuations slowly deflating and non differentiated wrapper startups fading away instead of dramatic crash

If there is any crash I believe it will be landed "softly" indeed, they can't really say it's a crash neither.

 

[yesimog420]

ai can stay aslong as it’s banned for commercial use

 

[dumb]

@Jason Voorhees What's your opinion on the recent spike in RAM prices? do you think it will affect other hardware components or return to normal

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Jason Voorhees What's your opinion on the recent spike in RAM prices? do you think it will affect other hardware components or return to normal

It already has bro. Nvidia has openly declared that it's cutting shot the production of its consumer GPUs to make AI chips instead. Many storage/RAM and other companies are also trying to eat the slice of the AI pie. Crucial already cut down its consumer branch to only cater to enterprise customers. This won't change until 2027 imo

 

[Gomez]

These are my predictions what are yours? What do you think is the future of AI?

Even greater commercialization
There won't be any big breakthrough in 26 it will be just slowly progressing
definietly some new laws regarding it being used "for bad purposes" when the government has the most developed versions of ai that collects data and indoctrinates people even better that it has ever before
in 10/15 years some new weapon of mass destruction will be made with using ai
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[MouthBreathingElite]

By niche I meant under 50 percent. Religious types, simps and non sub 5s are still the majority for now.

Esther Viler mentioned it in her book 'the manipulated man', every function of a woman can be replaced by a robot. When robots become advanced enough to look hyper realistic and give out babies and the quasi foid worship religion dies out. Then there is a good chance of hitting over 50 percent. For now that seems like a long way away though.

A good portion of people already use ai for their social needs, very sad but its a sign of whats to come

 

[ryuken]

It already has bro. Nvidia has openly declared that it's cutting shot the production of its consumer GPUs to make AI chips instead. Many storage/RAM and other companies are also trying to eat the slice of the AI pie. Crucial already cut down its consumer branch to only cater to enterprise customers. This won't change until 2027 imo

Do u think rams price will keep going up?

 

[dumb]

It already has bro. Nvidia has openly declared that it's cutting shot the production of its consumer GPUs to make AI chips instead. Many storage/RAM and other companies are also trying to eat the slice of the AI pie. Crucial already cut down its consumer branch to only cater to enterprise customers. This won't change until 2027 imo

Big corps will do anything for a dollar bill. I do hope to see more scandals like builder.ai. I just hate how everything is forced down our throat, AI search engines, AI in my operating system (If youre a wincuck), AI in my phone, AI in your video editor. Just keep AI out of anything moderation or security related. I'm calling it plantir will do CrowdStrike 2.0

 

[LXR]

AI will be used in gaming more and more. They will only admit after 30% of their departments are using AI. Asset creation for repetitive modular and well defined parametric assets is gonna be taken over by AI. Expedition 33 used AI, so its already normalised

 

[Nectar]

Should take over Uber too

 

[R@m@]

Hope my dick still works by then

 

[Swarthy Knight]

Saw this comment on Reddit recently. Do you think it's cope? @Jason Voorhees

 

[Glorious King]

@SplashJuice @Glorious King @Swarthy Knight @BigBallsLarry @Insomnia

ANOTHER POINT TO ADD

RISE OF SENIOR ENGINEERS TRYING TO SWITCH TO AI ROLES

I DONT KNOW IF U HAVE NOTICED IT OR NOT BUT A LOT OF DEVS WITH 4-5 EXP AND A MASTERS DEGREE ARE TAKING A PAYCUT AND JOINING THE AI RIDE

JUST MEANS THAT IT'S GOING TO GET EVEN MORE TOUGHER FOR NEWBIES

 

[Glorious King]

Saw this comment on Reddit recently. Do you think it's cope? @Jason Voorhees

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THATS ONE DUMB NIGGA RIGHT THERE

WAIT TILL HE SEES AGI

 

[Swarthy Knight]

THATS ONE DUMB NIGGA RIGHT THERE

WAIT TILL HE SEES AGI

Redditors when it comes to anything anti AI:

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Saw this comment on Reddit recently. Do you think it's cope? @Jason Voorhees

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I disagree with the part that it isn't developing quickly and it has peaked but it is true that LLMs aren't all AI and AI is often used as some kind of buzz word.

Like I've mentioned many times before AI is just a advanced probability/ pattern recognition machine nothing more than that. It still suffers from hallucinations and stochastic parroting. So we have essential reached the peak of brute force methods but we have already started moving away from just throwing more data and processors at the problem and toward Chain of Thought processing to mitigate hallucinations and overcome other problems

We are seeing a shift from just bigger, do it all AI agents to more efficient, domain specific stuff like Small Language Models (SLMs) and Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures.