Will 2026 Be The Year AI Decision Intelligence Goes Mainstream? (43:56)
theCUBE research, Friday, January 16th, 2026
In this episode of Next Frontiers of AI, Scott Hebner sits down with Joel Sherlock, CEO of Causify, to make a forward-looking call: 2026 will be the year causal AI for Decision Intelligence goes mainstream. After the generative AI surge (2022-2024) and the rise of agents and agentic workflows (2025), enterprises are hitting a hard wall: fluent systems can act, but they often cannot justify or defend consequential decisions.
This 'wall' is highlighted by a new Carnegie Mellon study on how well LLMs and RAG answered over 1,600 questions using ~15,000 =retrieved documents. The results were sobering. Today's models struggle to deliver accurate, explainable, and trustworthy answers, especially when evidence conflicts. Most concerning, the study found a 74% 'faithfulness gap' where the model's explanation does not match what actually drove its conclusion.