
Anticipating 2026
London Futurists
Outro
Hosts exchange New Year wishes and close the episode with an optimistic appeal for a better 2026.
When we started this Podcast back in August 2022, we, Calum and David, announced the theme to be “Anticipating and managing exponential impact”. We talked about three sub-themes: Developing the skills of exponential foresight; Distinguishing between scenarios, whether they were plausible or implausible, and whether they were desirable or undesirable; and thirdly, Supporting the community of collaborative exponential foresight. 126 episodes later, as we reach the transition between 2025 and 2026, it’s a good time for the two of us to take stock.
Accordingly, in this episode, we each pick out a number of events from the last 12 months which we see as potential signals of larger exponential impact ahead.
Selected follow-ups:
- An MIT report that 95% of AI pilots fail spooked investors - by Jeremy Kahn
- The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients - by Ethan Mollick
- The Road To Superintelligence - by Calum
- AI Doomers, Accelerationists & Scouts - Digital Disruption
- The Economic Singularity - book by Calum
- How can better foresight actually improve the world? - Webinar in the series "From forecasts to levers"
- Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign - Anthropic
- Major Neuromorphic Computing projects - listed by Conscium
- Why AI Agent Verification Is A Critical Industry - by Calum
- Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? - LFP episode with Matt Burgess
- What's Our Problem? - book by Tim Urban
- OpenAI and Retro Biosciences achieve 50x increase in expressing stem cell reprogramming markers
- Progress at LEVF, December 2025 - by David
- UK Biobank
- The THRIVE Act - Regenerative Medicine Foundation
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
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