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As I prepare to embark on another CES in 2026, there is simply no escaping AI. It’s everywhere…or, at least as far as the tech industry is concerned, it should be everywhere…and tech companies just won’t stop talking about how AI is going to change everything until everyone believes it.
However, right now the flagship use cases we have for AI are chatbots that are increasingly problematic, whether from a mental health perspective or as a tool for harassment and abuse, or image and video generators that fill social media with so much AI garbage that “Slop” has become the Merriam-Webster word of the year for 2025, and not in a complementary way.
“Soon” – but when?
The office productivity tools we were promised would transform the workplace still seem on the horizon, as does Elon Musk’s promise of full Level 5 autonomous driving for all Teslas. The various medical advances we were supposed to achieve with AI are also still “coming,” while appearing to make our doctors less capable of diagnosing diseases that they were able to detect before they started using AI assistants.
And that doesn’t even touch on the problem of AI “hallucinations,” a buzzword in the tech industry that obscures what an AI actually does, leading to potentially disastrous mistakes because, basically, AIs just invent things that look at like that’s probably the case A respond to whatever its prompt or objective is, whether that solution or answer is correct or not.
Reports of people relying on AI, or even just using AI, in its current form and encountering professional embarrassment or possible disaster have been rife since these tools became public, with many more reports of these tools being used for truly horrific purposes. If you’ve read what Grok has been up to over the past couple of months, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
Then there is the widespread fear that these tools, despite their negligence, could still succeed in putting millions of people out of work, or the absolutely enormous environmental damage that all this causes.
I say all this as I prepare to head to the Las Vegas Convention Center for another CES, because there is only one thing I want to see: a real, workable, useful, and revolutionary use case that justifies all of this. That’s right. It was the great figures of AI who evangelized the fact that we were at the dawn of a new industrial revolution thanks to this technology, not me.
The world has poured billions of dollars into this technology over the past two years, more than enough money and resources to reap the benefits. something from the future “it’s almost there” to the present.
I’m not asking him to keep all his promises. I ask him to keep his promises A of them with a truly socially or economically beneficial product or incredible efficiency of an existing process that only AI can deliver. It’s time to create the flagship application of AI, and if we don’t get it by 2026, then we’ll have to start pulling back from what increasingly feels like a novelty that’s becoming more obsolete and expensive by the day.
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