What is the future for auto-pilots?
A decade is not a long time at all. 

What the future holds for the next decade is the new aircraft-ATC communication system, CPDLC. All of the focus is on that. Enabling data links between pilots and ATC is a hard prerequisite for any significant autopilot development.

It's very possible and likely that nothing revolutionary will happen in autopilots.
It's possible and likely that something more minor is going to change. 

Some believe autopilots will get more sensor and control fusion. Still nowhere near full control. Others believe more manual flying will become standard procedure, to reduce the damage when the electronics fail and reversion to direct law is required.

No one knows that for sure, so it would be pure speculation. What is known is that autopilot development will not be the next decade's primary focus. For any major new system to fly passengers in 10 years, it would have to be in advanced testing stages already.