Innovation Debrief 2025–2026
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For this latest edition of our ever-popular annual debrief, we invite you to delve into 50 signals emerging from the margins. It’s there in the liminal – among the geeks, the freaks and the underdogs – that the kind of audacity that artificial intelligence has yet to replicate can still be found.
In Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future, Fortune’s AI editor Jeremy Kahn explores how AI excels at producing mainstream culture but misses the avant-garde – the unexpected, the strange, the deeply human.
In an exclusive interview with The Future Laboratory, he explains: ‘That actually may put a premium on humans who can operate as artists on the avant-garde because that will seem very refreshing to people. It will be something they cannot get from AI. But the question is, how do people discover that?’ Our Innovation Debrief 2025–2026 sets out to answer that question.
