Top Technology Predictions for 2025 and Beyond: Gartner

Through 2026, 20% of organizations will reduce labor costs by using AI to flatten their organizational structure, eliminating more than half of current middle management positions.

Technological immersion will impact populations by 2028 with digital addiction and social isolation driving 70% of organizations to implement anti-digital policies. Gartner expects 1 billion people will be affected by digital addiction by 2028

By 2029, 10% of global boards will use AI guidance to challenge executive decisions material to their business. AI-generated insights will impact executive decision making, empowering board members to challenge executives.

By 2028, 40% of large enterprises will manipulate and measure employee mood and behaviors, all in the name of profit by using AI, which can perform sentiment analysis on workplace communications. 

Licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas will be in 70% of new contracts for employees. Personal data captured by enterprise large language models will remain employment. 

Emotional-AI-related terms and conditions in technology contracts will be included in 70% of health care provider conditions by 2027, or they could risk billions in financial harm.

Generative AI labeling, such as “xxGPT, will be used by 30% of Standard and Poor’s companies by 2028, to reshape their branding while chasing new revenue.

New security and risk solutions will be needed, since by 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches will be traced back to AI agent abuse, from both external and malicious internal actors.

By 2028, 40% of CIOs will demand technology to autonomously track, oversee or contain the results of AI agent actions. New generative AI agents are poised to rapidly expand in strategic planning for product leaders. 

Fortune 500 companies will shift $500 billion from energy operating expenses to microgrids through 2027 to mitigate chronic energy risks and AI demand.