It’s 2026 and AI isn’t just helping out, it’s taking over the whiteboard and your white-collar job. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down the AI Futures Project’s bold predictions for 2026: OpenBrain’s Agent-1 is coding faster than the people who made it (with better manners, too), China’s plotting a digital Oceans Eleven to catch up in the AGI race, and AI just got itself a 9-to-5. Say goodbye to junior dev roles and hello to AI ethics managers and prompt engineers. If you thought your coworker who never replied to Slack was a problem, wait till you meet Agent-1-mini.

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