{"id":228300,"date":"2026-01-03T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/stanford-ai-experts-predict-what-will-happen-in-2026"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:17:39","slug":"stanford-ai-experts-predict-what-will-happen-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/stanford-ai-experts-predict-what-will-happen-in-2026","title":{"rendered":"Stanford AI Experts Predict What Will Happen in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-ai-experts-predict-what-will-happen-in-20262.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After years of fast expansion and billion-dollar bets, 2026 may mark the moment artificial intelligence confronts its actual utility. In their predictions for the next year, Stanford faculty across computer science, medicine, law, and economics converge on a striking theme: The era of AI evangelism is giving way to an era of AI evaluation. Whether it\u2019s standardized benchmarks for legal reasoning, real-time dashboards tracking labor displacement, or clinical frameworks for vetting the flood of medical AI startups, the coming year demands rigor over hype. The question is no longer \u201cCan AI do this?\u201d but \u201cHow well, at what cost, and for whom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about what Stanford HAI faculty expect in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of fast expansion and billion-dollar bets, 2026 may mark the moment artificial intelligence confronts its actual utility. In their predictions for the next year, Stanford faculty across computer science, medicine, law, and economics converge on a striking theme: The era of AI evangelism is giving way to an era of AI evaluation. Whether [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}