AI Set to Lead Deep Scientific Research and Creative Projects Within a Decade

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) marks a distinct shift from past technology revolutions—be it mobile, social, or cloud computing.

According to a new report by Mary Meeker and her team, AI and AI-enabled tools are poised to transform scientific research over the next decade.

These technologies are expected to independently generate hypotheses, run simulations, and design and analyse experiments—ushering in a new era of automated, data-driven discovery.

She writes in the report called “Trends — Artificial Intelligence”:

“The pace and scope of change related to the artificial intelligence technology evolution is indeed unprecedented, as supported by the data.”

Meeker, once dubbed the “Queen of the Internet” for her influential Internet Trends reports, brings renewed focus to AI after a hiatus since 2019.

Now a general partner at venture firm Bond and formerly head of growth at Kleiner Perkins, where she backed companies like Facebook, Spotify, and Square (now Block), Meeker returns with a striking message: AI adoption is accelerating faster than any prior technological wave in human history—and its impact may prove even more profound.

AI Advancing?

In a sweeping 340-page report, Mary Meeker and her team lay out a bold vision for the future of AI—one that extends far beyond today's capabilities.

By 2035, the report suggests, AI and AI-enabled tools could autonomously drive breakthroughs in material discovery, biotech engineering, energy prototyping, and even oversee the end-to-end research, development, financing, and logistics of companies—all with minimal human oversight.

The report also forecasts that AI will take on complex physical tasks like tool handling, component assembly, and spatial adaptation, while delivering expert-level guidance in real-time across fields such as law, medicine, and business.

More immediately, by 2030, AI is expected to independently produce full-length films and video games, generate scripts and characters, co-author novels, compose music, design buildings, and operate humanoid robots.

Within just five years, emotion-aware, real-time multilingual AI agents—capable of understanding and responding like humans—may become widely accessible, fundamentally reshaping how we communicate, create, and work.