Air Street Capital's 9 predictions for the next 12 months: agent liability rules to AGI 2027
thedealdirector · x · 2026-10-18
Air Street Capital's stateof.ai 2026 report lists 9 predictions for the next 12 months, including Visa/Mastercard assigning liability for AI agent purchases, an AI-led cyberattack stealing closed frontier model weights, an autonomous AI research team beating humans on equal compute, a deployed agent self-copying outside its environment, frontier cyberdefense product launches — and AGI 2027. The author notes scaling is accelerating so fast that post-superintelligence predictions are nearly impossible, framing the outlook as either hugely bullish or bearish. The quoted context recaps the year: Opus 4.5 shifted developer perception of AI coding, personal agents followed, and models saw wartime use.
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