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Ep 873: The Next 12 months of AI: 19 Predictions Every Business Leader Needs to Hear (Replay)

October 1, 2026

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"The pace of AI is measurably two to three times faster today than it was just nine months ago," Jordan Wilson argues on the Everyday AI Podcast. This acceleration means that the typical end-of-year predictions cycle is obsolete. Instead, Wilson offers 19 immediate, actionable predictions for the coming school year, intended to serve as a roadmap for business leaders. The central thesis is that the next 12 months will be defined by a shift away from isolated, reactive AI use toward proactive, multi-agent, and deeply integrated systems—a transition that will reshape how companies measure value, allocate resources, and even handle controversy.

The End of Reactive Chat and the Rise of New Interfaces

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (02:34) **The Premise: Why This Episode Matters** - Jordan Wilson introduces the show as an answer sheet for the entire school year, laying out 19 AI predictions that are more urgent than ever due to the accelerating pace of model releases.
  • 2 (06:58) **#19: Reactive Chat is Dying, Proactive Agents Take Over** - The first prediction argues that the era of one-off prompting is ending, replaced by autonomous agents that work around the clock.
  • 3 (08:41) **#18: Voice and Mobile Become the Default AI Interface** - Wilson predicts that talking to AI will become the primary control surface, with ChatGPT's advanced voice mode as the key example.
  • 4 (12:49) **#17: Manager Threads Replace One-Off Chats** - The concept of isolated chat threads is obsolete; the new paradigm is a single "manager" or "chief of staff" thread that controls all sub-conversations.
  • 5 (15:06) **#16: Multiplayer AI – Humans and Agents Share the Same Workspace** - The next interface is a shared workspace where entire teams can collaborate with the same agent simultaneously.
  • 6 (17:32) **#15: Vibe Operations – The Whole Company Starts Building** - Low-code/no-code "vibe" platforms, specifically ChatGPT Sites, will allow entire companies to build simple apps and dashboards without engineering support.
  • 7 (20:31) **#14: Everything You Make Goes Agent-Native** - Just as the web became mobile-responsive, all company resources and outputs must be repurposed into a format that agents can easily consume and reuse.

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Jordan Wilson

Show Notes

The next 12 months of AI leaked. 

Kinda. 

For the past 90ish days, we've been quietly collecting evidence of what's next.

1,030 saved posts. 90 Podcasts. Countless conversations. Every model drop, every leak, every quiet product update the big labs hoped you'd scroll past.

Then we connected the dots.

What came out the other side: 19 calls on where AI goes over the next 12 months. And some of them are uncomfortable.

We're walking through all 19. 

Bring your team's AI roadmap. You'll want to edit it. 👇

The Next 12 months of AI: 19 Predictions Every Business Leader Needs to Hear -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson (Replay)


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Topics Covered in This Episode:

  1. Reactive Chat Dies, Proactive AI Agents Rise
  2. Voice and Mobile Become AI Default Interface
  3. Manager Threads Replace One-Off AI Chats
  4. Multiplayer AI: Humans and Agents Collaborate
  5. Company-Wide Vibe Operations with ChatGPT Sites
  6. Agent Native Workflows and Resources Standardization
  7. Skill Reuse as Key Company Metric
  8. Company Reasoning Data as Strategic Gold
  9. Shift from Public Leaderboards to Private Evals
  10. Model Routing Becomes AI Industry Norm
  11. Cheaper AI Intelligence, Anthropic Competition Heats
  12. Fortune 100 AI Token Spend Efficiency
  13. Compute Power as New AI Currency
  14. Localized AI Controversies and Election Deepfakes
  15. Mainstream AI Backlash and Content Detection
  16. Math Benchmarks Solved by Advanced AI
  17. Token Maxing Returns with Cost Decline
  18. Open Agents Crash Risks and Cybersecurity
  19. Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) in AI Development




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