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19 dated predictions by 9 named people, each linked to its source: 14 open, 4 due for review, 1 judged.

2 predictions come due in the next 90 days; 4 are past due and waiting for an outcome. past due unverified

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OpenAI will have a fully automated AI researcher by 2028.Open · Unverified · Sam Altman · target Dec 2028
OpenAI will have an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026.Open · Unverified · Sam Altman · target Sep 2026
Making AI agents work like an employee will take about a decade.Open · Andrej Karpathy · target Oct 2035
2027 may see robots that can do tasks in the real world.Open · Sam Altman · target Dec 2027
2026 will likely see AI systems that can figure out novel insights.Open · Sam Altman · target Dec 2026
AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment to as much as 20% within one to five years.Open · Unverified · Dario Amodei · target May 2030
Within 12 to 18 months, most of the code for Meta's Llama efforts will be written by AI.Open · Mark Zuckerberg · target Oct 2026
The impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will exceed that of the Industrial Revolution.Open · Daniel Kokotajlo · target Apr 2035
Within three to six months, AI will be writing 90 percent of the code.Due for review · Dario Amodei · target Sep 2025
Within twelve months, AI may be writing essentially all of the code.Due for review · Dario Amodei · target Mar 2026
Powerful AI systems will emerge in late 2026 or early 2027.Open · Anthropic · target Mar 2027
In 2025 Meta and others will have an AI that can work like a midlevel engineer.Due for review · Unverified · Mark Zuckerberg · target Dec 2025
In 2025 the first AI agents may join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.Due for review · Sam Altman · target Dec 2025
Powerful AI could arrive as early as 2026.Open · Dario Amodei · target Dec 2026
Superintelligence could arrive in a few thousand days.Open · Sam Altman · target Dec 2032
AGI, defined as passing a set of tests better than most people, will arrive within 5 years.Open · Unverified · Jensen Huang · target Mar 2029
There is a 50% chance of AGI by 2028.Open · Shane Legg · target Dec 2028
Tesla will have more than one million robotaxis on the road the following year.Missed · Unverified · Elon Musk · target Dec 2020
Computers will reach human-level intelligence by 2029.Open · Unverified · Ray Kurzweil · target Dec 2029

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Sep 24, 2026Tesla will have more than one million robotaxis on the road the following year.Elon Musk · Outcome: Open to Missed. Tesla's robotaxi service began as a limited service in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025; there were no robotaxis on the road in 2020.

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What counts as a prediction here?

A public, on-the-record claim about data, AI or tech with a date attached, made by a named person or organization: "AGI by 2028", "AI will write most of our code in 12 to 18 months". Each one links to where it was said. Quotes appear only when the words were read on the source page; otherwise the source’s own words are shown as reported.

How are outcomes judged?

When the target date passes, a prediction is due for review. It is then judged came true, missed or partly, with a link to the evidence and the date it was judged. Until then it stays open. Every judgment and correction is kept in the Changes log.

What is the hit rate?

Came true divided by judged predictions, with partly counting as half. Open predictions and ones still due for review are not counted, so a person with few judged predictions has a rough rate.

Why is a prediction marked Unverified?

Because only a secondary source (a news report) was found, not the person’s own words on a page we could read, or because the weekly search found it and nobody has checked it yet.

Which AI predictions are coming due soon?

The Coming due page lists open predictions by target date, soonest first, and the strip on the home page shows them quarter by quarter.

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