Deloitte’s annual tech trends report: AI will soon be in everything

Artificial intelligence is heading toward a future where it’s so embedded in everything we do, we’ll eventually forget it’s even there. 

At least that’s according to Deloitte’s annual Tech Trends report, which pinpoints enterprise technology trends that the firm expects to take off in the coming years. The report, in its 16th year, is meant to help guide business leaders alongside an ever-changing industry. 

This year’s report highlights how artificial intelligence is being woven into the fabric of everything we do. “We’ll eventually take it (AI) for granted and think of it in the same way that we think of HTTP or electricity: We’ll just expect it to work,” the authors wrote. 

Deloitte is expecting the tech, which has taken over much of the narrative in the past two years, will be absorbed by nearly everything but have a silent presence.

“AI will perform quietly in the background, optimizing traffic in our cities, personalizing our health care, or creating adaptative and accessible learning paths in education,” the 2025 report said. “We won’t proactively use it; we’ll simply experience a world in which it makes everything work smarter, faster, and more intuitively—like magic, but grounded in algorithms.”

For this to happen, it’s crucial that businesses have the fundamentals in place. The report points out a need to align strategy, talent, architecture, and data before firms can get the full use out of AI.

“The need to invest is now, especially because some of the hard things that we need to put in place in order to take advantage of what comes next are sorely needed,” Deloitte’s Chief Technology Officer Bill Briggs said in an interview with Fast Company.

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