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Due in the next year

The calendar view of the ledger, and the work it implies.

Snapshot 2026-10-25 240 claims 138 citations 209 people

A prediction ledger is a maintenance obligation. Every dated claim that passes without a verdict is a small failure of the archive, and the only defence is to know what is coming.

This is the list the ledger watches: everything dated within a year of the snapshot, in the order it expires.

PersonClaimDueDays
Mark Zuckerberg<em>“By roughly October 2026, most code written for Meta’s AI efforts is authored by AI agents.”</em>2026-10-294
Sundar Pichai<em>“Within roughly a year, AI agents will routinely act on a user’s behalf for high-stakes decisions.”</em>2026-12-0743
Elon Musk<em>“AGI — AI smarter than any human — arrives by the end of 2026, “no later than next year”.”</em>2026-12-3167
Mustafa Suleyman<em>“AI systems are already superhuman in the tasks that matter, with agentic reliability arriving within 6–18 months.”</em>2027-06-12230
Jan Leike<em>“The core technical challenges of aligning superintelligence would be solved by mid-2027, with 20% of OpenAI’s compute.”</em>2027-07-05253
Narendra Modi<em>“Ten million young Indians receive AI skills training within one year — by August 2027.”</em>2027-08-15294
Dated claims falling due within 365 days of the snapshot.
PersonClaimDueDays
Mark Zuckerberg<em>“By roughly October 2026, most code written for Meta’s AI efforts is authored by AI agents.”</em>2026-10-294
Sundar Pichai<em>“Within roughly a year, AI agents will routinely act on a user’s behalf for high-stakes decisions.”</em>2026-12-0743
Elon Musk<em>“AGI — AI smarter than any human — arrives by the end of 2026, “no later than next year”.”</em>2026-12-3167
The next ninety days.

Figures computed from docs/predictions/ledger.json at build time. Every claim quoted on this page carries its own sources in the ledger.