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Verizon CEO Dan Schulman predicts that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could emerge within 18 months, driven by rapid step-function improvements in model capabilities every two months. He further forecasts that the subsequent era of quantum computing will arrive two years later, potentially compressing a century of technological progress into the next five to ten years. This outlook highlights significant implications for workforce restructuring and organizational fluidity as companies prepare for an accelerated pace of fundamental change.

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Verizon CEO Dan Schulman sees AGI within 18 months and a century of progress in a decade

GDELTSeptember 30, 20267 min read

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman offered a strikingly aggressive forecast for artificial intelligence’s development at the Ford Pro Accelerate event in Detroit, saying that an earthquake is headed our way. “The models that we see today are the worst models we’ll ever use in our lives,” Schulman said in conversation with Fortune’s Diane Brady. “Every two months, there’s a step function change in the power of the models. I think we get to some form of AGI in the next six to 18 months. I think it’s right on us.” Two years after that, he added, we will arrive at “the era of quantum,” which he described as “everything today times 1,000.” By 2030 or 2035, we will see “a pretty good form of humanoid robotics.” Summing it up, he added, “we’ve got a decade…

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