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AI and the New Age of Disruption
Article  •  March 11, 2026
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Technology has always had the power to reshape societies. But the current wave of disruption – driven by advances in artificial intelligence – is unfolding at dizzying pace and on an unprecedented scale.
Unlike previous technological revolutions, which generally took decades, AI is firing change across industries, institutions and societies in real time.
It’s a challenge just to keep up.

This Citi Institute report, which accompanies Citi’s DisrupTech conference being hosted in London in March, focuses on a few areas of disruptive technology, taking in innovations themselves, but also the shifts they will drive. 

Report Highlights

  • Autonomous driving and humanoids: Two of the biggest technological shifts gaining momentum today are autonomous mobility and the rise of humanoid and physical AI-enabled robots. They represent a structural innovation cycle with far-reaching implications for productivity, demographics, capital allocation, labor markets and competition.
  • NextGen AI companies: The new wave of AI software companies are likely to focus on integrated and agentic AI platforms and huge investments in computing infrastructures, networking and data pipelines. The challenge will be to scale responsibly.
  • The rise of quantum computing: Three themes dominate long-term strategic positioning: the physical limits of classical computing and the need for new architectures, the infrastructural intensity of AI scale-up and the disruptive trajectory of quantum capability.
     

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