AI in 2026: What's Actually Happening
What every major AI leader is saying about the future of knowledge work, the displacement timeline, and your 5-step playbook to stay ahead.
The AI Predictions Guide by What About AI? summarizes predictions from Suleyman (12-18 months for full knowledge work automation), Amodei (country of geniuses in a data center in 2-3 years), Altman (~2 years for AGI), Musk (AGI in 2025-2026), and Hassabis (1-2 years for major breakthroughs). The guide includes the displacement timeline showing who is affected when, and a 5-step playbook: automate yourself first, become an agent director, build agent management skills, test the limits now, and reframe your career path.
Source: What About AI?
Key Insights from This Guide
Here are some of the most important findings. Download the full guide for the complete comparison table and playbook.
Suleyman: 12–18 Months for Knowledge Work
Microsoft AI's CEO named lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers as immediately vulnerable. His argument: if you sit at a computer to do your job, AI will do most of it within the next year to year and a half.
Amodei: A Country of Geniuses in a Data Center
Within 2–3 years, AI clusters running millions of instances at superhuman speed — each one at or above Nobel Prize winner level. AI that picks up your job from a single prompt with no follow-up.
90% Automatable Today
Write your daily tasks on paper. How many can current AI handle? There may be 10% that really can't be done by AI. If you spent about a week of your time, you can automate most of your work. That's with today's tools.
From Worker to Agent Director
Don't wait for the company to automate your job. Coaching clients have compressed five days of work into one day using the agent director approach — managing teams of AI agents instead of waiting to be managed out.
What's Inside the Guide
The Predictions Table
What Suleyman, Amodei, Altman, Musk, and Hassabis each predict — timelines, roles affected, and key quotes side by side.
The Convergence Signal
Why every major AI leader independently landing on the same 12-month to 3-year window is the strongest signal you can get.
Displacement Timeline
Five phases from “90% automatable now” to robotics — who gets affected, when, and what happens at each stage.
Country of Geniuses
Amodei's vision of millions of AI instances at superhuman speed — what it means when AI picks up your job from a single prompt.
5-Step Playbook
Automate yourself first, become an agent director, build management skills, test the limits, and reframe your career path.
1 Trillionfold Compute
15 years produced a 1 trillionfold increase in training compute. The next 3 years bring another 1,000x. The exponential isn't slowing.
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