In Peter Diamandis’ latest Metatrends, he describes 5 distinct shifts to expect with artificial intelligence (AI) over the next two years. When will AI stop being a tool and become the invisible partner of our lives?
There is no doubt that AI is changing the way we interact with our digital world, becoming the interface between us and the apps we use. But Peter is talking about much more in the near future.
The adoption of AI by app developers is happening at such a rapid pace that its societal impact has yet to be fully understood.
Peter notes that AI will be no different than other transformative technologies that have become the background of our lives. For example, the telephone was miraculous in 1900 and invisible by 1950. The Internet was astonishing in 1995 and ambient by 2010. AI will follow the same arc, but compressed into a fraction of the time.
I have adapted Peter’s mindshare and divided it into several parts for subscribers to the 21st Century Tech Blog. Let me know whether you agree or disagree with this future vision as he describes it. Is he overselling AI, or describing our near-future reality?
PETER’s Prediction: In the next 2 to 3 years, AI will become ubiquitous, always on, always enabling, something that surrounds you, something that acts on your behalf, something you stop noticing, the same way you stopped noticing electricity in the walls of your home.
Part 1 – AI Becomes the Real Jarvis
1. AI gets access to your life.
For 15 years, Peter has been talking about the day every human will have their own butler, like Jarvis in the Tony Stark Iron Man movies. Your AI-equivalent Jarvis will access all your data, interactions and be clued into your desires.
The benefits of this will outweigh privacy concerns because the value will be simply too enormous to ignore.
Peter describes how he recently upgraded Skippy, his OpenClaw AI agent, connecting it to everything possible: iMessage, WhatsApp, Google Drive, Calendar, email, Granola, and all of his files, set up within an Andrej Kaparthy-style second brain. He describes this AGI sharing moment as palpable and accelerating.
Here’s what it means. Peter’s AI, which I call Jarvis, since he references the Tony Stark movie’s AI, can now:
- Listen to every phone conversation.
- Access all emails, texts, and meeting notes.
- See the visual and auditory data feeds he sees through his smart glasses.
- Tie in all the cameras in his home.
- Access every one of his wearable sensors.
- See his calendar.
- See every one of his online preferences.
- See his financial transaction, investment portfolio, and study his spending patterns.
- Access his genome, blood work, sleep architecture and every other biological signal in his body.
Peter’s Jarvis knows all of the above. It is no longer an AI chatbot, but rather, Peter’s chief of staff.
When Peter finishes breakfast and heads to the front door for work, Jarvis knows his schedule. Jarivs sees where he is going and summons a Cybercab before he takes one step outside. But there’s more. Since Jarvis cross-referenced Peter’s Oura ring data, it notes that he has not slept well. So the summoned Cybercab has reclining seats for a restorative nap during Peter’s commute. Peter has never asked for any of this or even thought about it, but Jarvis has, and adjusted the world to conform to Peter’s needs.
Peter has an upcoming board meeting today. Jarvis has read all the documents in Peter’s files and has provided a summary with talking points. Jarvis has pre-scheduled a 10-minute call with Peter’s CFO because of a discrepancy in the Second Quarter numbers that needs resolution before the meeting.
Meanwhile, Peter wakes up from his Cybercab nap with his presentation draft already prepared. No prompt. No request. Just done. This shift from an AI Peter talks to, to one that acts on his behalf before he asks, is revolutionary.
2. AI adapts the environment.
Today, when you and I walk into a room in our home or at work, we tweak it to meet our needs. We turn on the lights and adjust the thermostat. At work, we turn on computers. At home, maybe a television or audio system. We make ourselves comfortable.
In this new AI world, Jarvis senses Peter’s home and workplace. Jarvis knows biometric feeds and uses knowledge of his preferences to:
- Play music that is appropriate to Peter’s biometric status.
- Change the temperature to best suit his metabolism.
- Adjusts the lighting to cool blue for morning and warm amber for hours before biological bedtime.
- If Peter’s day has been stressful, when he walks through his front door, a favourite comedian appears on home screens.
- When his biorhythms indicate he is getting sleepy, Jarvis begins dimming lights and screens throughout the house, locks the doors, and puts Peter’s phone on “Do Not Disturb.”
Even Peter’s food regimen can be anticipated.
Jarvis adjusts Peter’s diet to his physiological needs, taste profile, and blood chemistry.
Jarvis knows when Peter plans to work out and adds extra protein and creatine to his lunch.
There is no menu, no guessing, and no asking. The meal Peter eats has been dialled in to his biochemistry.
With Jarvis, Peter’s home has become a biological dashboard, an environment that responds in real-time to what his body needs. A living space that literally keeps him healthier.
