Levie: 2026 Will Be the Year of Economically Useful AI Evals
Aaron Levie · No Priors Ep. 144 | The 2026 AI Forecast with Sarah & Elad · Dec 19, 2025 · at 34:39
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Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, predicts the emergence of benchmarks evaluating AI on economic and knowledge worker tasks in 2026.
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“And then finally, it will be the year of economically useful evals. So really starting to figure out how these models end up doing a lot more knowledge worker tasks in the economy. And that's gonna we're gonna see a lot more of that in 2026.”
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