In our recent article, The dual horizon, we explored a growing tension in strategic foresight: AI is transforming how we scan, sense, and shape the future, but it’s also introducing new risks around bias, blind spots, and explainability.
This shift is already reshaping how foresight professionals work. The question isn’t whether AI belongs in foresight, it’s how to use it responsibly, effectively, and strategically.
That’s exactly why we built FIBRES Foresight Agents: purpose-built, agentic AI copilots that handle the scanning and sorting while keeping human judgment firmly in control.
Because we believe the future of foresight isn’t AI versus humans. It’s humans with AI.
AI has already moved beyond simple task automation. With the rise of agentic AI systems — intelligent, autonomous agents designed for complex workflows — foresight teams can now achieve in hours what used to take weeks.
With FIBRES you get AI copilots built directly into the foresight platform that:
Scan thousands of publications and data sources for your research project
Pick and summarize the most relevant signals automatically
Cluster trends and drafts full-fledged stakeholder-ready foresight radars in a fraction of the time
These agents proactively generate insight, structure narratives, and help your team connect the dots faster than ever before.
This isn’t about replacing human foresight. It’s about freeing you to focus on what matters most: strategic sensemaking, facilitation, and guiding collective action.
It’s AI that’s designed to give you the clarity, speed, and scale to do foresight work better, not take it away.
Here’s what we know: with greater AI capability comes greater complexity. Foresight professionals can’t afford to ignore the pitfalls:
Data bias can skew your view of the future.
Overreliance on automation can dull creativity and critical thinking, or reduce fruitful and critical discussions and human-to-human collaboration.
Black-box systems make it hard to defend insights to leadership and stakeholders.
These challenges are exactly why we designed Foresight Agents differently:
Traceable insights — every signal links back to its original source for full transparency and defensibility.
Transparent decision paths — every clustering and categorization is visible and directly linked to the collected signals.
Human-in-the-loop control — you decide what matters while AI handles the grunt work, and you validate and build on the results.
Native to a foresight platform built for collaboration — insights, radars, and scenarios live in one shared space where teams can co-create, enrich findings, and align on priorities.
Explainability has been seen as one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption. FIBRES solves this directly by building it in the deliverables, resulting in AI-powered foresight you can validate.
In our view, the rise of AI doesn’t have to result in diminishing foresight professionals. In fact, we strive to design all our AI-powered features so that they make foresight professionals and their efforts more valuable than ever.
While Foresight Agents process signals at scale, humans:
Apply the nuanced context that machines can’t replicate
Challenge assumptions and biases
Help leaders prepare for plausible alternative future scenarios
Facilitate alignment across stakeholders
Provide strategic recommendations, translating insights into actionable guidance for leaders
… and so much more.
With the grind automated, we hope you realize how you can elevate your foresight work and impact by gaining the time and clarity to focus on higher-value thinking.
And there’s one skill set that’s now mission-critical: AI literacy. The best foresight leaders of the future will know how to guide AI to make foresight smarter, faster, and more relevant, but also apply their critical thinking on everything Foresight Agents, or any other AI-powered tool, produces.
AI is accelerating foresight. But how you integrate it determines whether you gain an edge, fall behind, or get misled:
Teams that adopt AI responsibly will generate insights faster, communicate strategy more effectively, and outpace competitors.
Organizations that combine AI scale with human judgment will make better decisions with more confidence.
Foresight professionals who lead this integration will shape—not follow—the next chapter of strategic thinking.
AI is not a shortcut. It’s an amplifier. And with FIBRES Foresight Agents, you get a system designed to keep humans at the center while giving you the speed, clarity, and depth to stay ahead.
The future isn’t going to slow down. The question is whether your foresight process can keep up.
FIBRES Foresight Agents give you the edge: on-demand deep scanning, structured insights, and strategic clarity at scale, all while keeping you in control.