Artificial intelligence models are advancing at a rapid pace and, today, this technology is used as an effective, everyday support tool: summarizing emails, retouching photographs or translating texts with acceptable precision.
It has been integrated into offices, as well as the home and many other industries, and does so as a personal assistant, an analyst of ideas that in the end, however, requires constant human supervision to function.
But the scenario is about to change drastically. If until now AI has been generative—capable of creating things—the horizon of 2026 marks the beginning of the «agentic» era, where AI models will be able to do things on their own.
Technology is about to take a qualitative leap that goes beyond processing speed. We are entering an autonomy that raises serious questions about privacy and security.
It is for this reason that we tell you the ten things that artificial intelligence will be able to do throughout 2026, which will define this new technological cycle, and that should undoubtedly concern us.
10 things that AI will be able to do in a few months
1. AI will be autonomous: This will be the great revolution, where we will go from asking AI to write a travel itinerary to asking it to organize vacations. It will go to websites, compare prices, use your credit card to book flights and hotels, and add appointments to your calendar with minimal supervision.
2. Videos impossible to distinguish from reality: Tools like Sora or Veo will be better, therefore, in 2026, it will be possible to generate high definition video clips with physical coherence starting from simple text. This will allow the creation of advertisements or movie scenes without cameras or actors, making audiovisual production cheaper but putting thousands of jobs at risk.
3. Simultaneous translation: The language barrier will almost completely collapse. Headphones and mobile devices will be able to translate conversations in real time with virtually zero latency. Most impressive will be the ability to replicate the tone of voice and intonation of the original speaker.
4. Software programming using natural language: You will no longer need to know how to write code in Python or C++ to develop a tool. You will be able to describe to the AI what you need – for example, an app to manage your warehouse stock – and the system will write, debug and compile the code to deliver the final product to you.
5. Medical diagnoses: AI will become the doctor’s best ally, because the systems will analyze clinical histories, genetic data and imaging tests (x-rays, MRIs) with greater precision than humans. This will make it possible to detect diseases such as cancer in very early stages and design personalized treatments based on specific DNA.
6. Video games with a life of their own: Game characters will stop repeating the same pre-recorded phrases. Thanks to the integrated language models, you will be able to maintain coherent and dynamic conversations with them, and they will remember your past actions, reacting emotionally as if they had a life of their own.
7. Personalized advertising: AI will know your habits, fears and desires better than you do yourself. The ads that will be shown to you will not be generic; They will be generated in real time specifically for you at that exact moment, maximizing the probability of purchase and the level of commercial manipulation.
8. Personal teachers: Each student will be able to count on a 24-hour AI tutor who knows your exact weaknesses. If a student does not understand a mathematical concept explained in one way, the AI will detect the confusion and change the pedagogical strategy instantly, adapting to the pace of learning.
9. The end of search engines: The habit of searching on Google, which involves seeing a list of blue links and browsing various websites to extract information, will become obsolete. The AI built into the browsers will read those pages for you, synthesize the information and give you the direct answer. This represents a radical change in the internet business model, and website traffic will plummet.
10. Scams that are difficult to detect: Phishing will no longer have spelling mistakes, so you will receive cloned voice calls from your boss or family asking for urgent money, or even video calls generated in real time that will appear legitimate. Verifying human identity will be the biggest security challenge.
The technology of 2026 promises brutal efficiency and unprecedented comfort, but the price to pay will be high, very high. The loss of privacy, as well as the uncertainty about what is real and what does not look worrying.