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A roundup of some AI predictions for 2026: Varun Mohan, Ronak Malde (Google DeepMind), and Sholto Douglas (Scaling RL Anthropic): There is probably going to be huge progress on continual learning. Hieu Pham (OpenAI): 2026 will witness a millenium problem being solved majorly by AI. Brett Adcock (Figure): Humanoid robots will perform unsupervised, multi-day tasks in homes they’ve never seen before - driven entirely by neural networks. These tasks will span long time horizons, going straight from pixels to torques. Logan Kilpatrick (Google AI): 2026 is going to be a huge year for embodied AI / or put differently, we are going to see a lot more robots in the real world soon. David A. Dalrymple (Programme Director at the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency): By about December 2026, AI will likely be able to do most of the work of improving AI algorithms itself. The time it takes for capabilities to double could drop to around 70–80 days. Stephen McAleer (AI researcher at Anthropic): We will have automated AI research very soon and it's important that alignment can keep up during the intelligence explosion. Jack Clark (Anthropic): By summer of 2026 it will be as though the digital world is going through some kind of fast evolution, with some parts of it emitting a huge amount of heat and light and moving with counter-intuitive speed relative to everything else.

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