CITRIS AI experts give 2026 predictions

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Illustration by Neil Freese/UC Berkeley

In just a few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone from a tech novelty to a society-altering force. What does the new year hold? UC Berkeley News asked some of the campus’s leading AI experts — including CITRIS Executive Director Camille Crittenden and other CITRIS-affiliated researchers — to summarize developments they’ll be monitoring in 2026.

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