2026: The Year of AI That Works
· Scott Felten
2026: The Year of AI That Works
Coming soon.
If 2025 was about getting serious, 2026 will be about getting results. The organizations that figured out governance, trust, and human oversight last year are now positioned to scale. Everyone else is playing catch-up.
This post will cover our predictions for the year ahead:
- Certified AI goes mainstream — Why human-verified outputs become the enterprise standard
- The BPO renaissance — How business process outsourcing reinvents itself for the AI era
- Agentic workflows mature — From demos to production deployments
- The skills gap widens — And what smart organizations are doing about it
- Regulatory clarity arrives — What the EU AI Act and US frameworks mean in practice
Full predictions coming soon.