Jim Spohrer serves on the Board of Directors of ISSIP and previously worked at IBM, where he directed various AI and service science initiatives. He discusses the future of AI, predicting that compute costs will decrease by a factor of 1000 every 20 years, enabling digital workers to become more capable and affordable. He presents a timeline and framework for benchmarking AI progress on open leaderboards to achieve human-level performance in various tasks over time. The best way to predict the future, he says, is to inspire students to build a better future.