IBM Automation Roadmap
Digital labor automates business, IT, and security tasks. Advancements in generative AI and code generation will transform automation across all levels, across industries.
Automation
Roadmap
Strategic milestones
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2030+
Enable autonomous enterprises with trusted decision automation.
In 2030 and beyond, trusted decision-automation systems will operate most of the basic functions in an organization, with creative and strategic tasks done by humans. Automation will enforce the governance of sustainability goals.
Why this matters for our clients and the world
Furnished with robust and adaptable automation, enterprises will become autonomous in their business and IT processes, requiring minimal human management.
The technologies and innovations that will make this possible
Advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning and stochastic game theory will help enable more complex autonomous processes, agents, and decision-automation systems with decentralized management tools. To respond to incidents, trustworthy automation will initiate predictive remediation and self-heal with zero downtime.
How these advancements will be delivered to IBM clients and partners
AI-enhanced decision-automation systems will be integrated across hybrid clouds for the management of business processes and IT.