AI Won’t Level the Playing Field—It’ll Tilt It
AI was supposed to close the gap between the best and the rest. Instead, it’s creating an escalator for the elite, while everyone else is left scrambling for the stairs.
Read MoreDr. Mark van Rijmenam is a strategic futurist known as The Digital Speaker. He globally ranked as the #1 futurist. He stands at the forefront of the digital age and lives and breathes cutting-edge technologies to inspire Fortune 500 companies and governments worldwide. As an optimistic dystopian, he has a deep understanding of AI, blockchain, the metaverse, and other emerging technologies, blending academic rigor with technological innovation.
His pioneering efforts include the world’s first TEDx Talk in VR in 2020. In 2023, he further pushed boundaries when he delivered a TEDx talk in Athens with his digital twin, delving into the complex interplay of AI and our perception of reality. In 2024, he launched a digital twin of himself, offering interactive, on-demand conversations via text, audio, or video in 29 languages, thereby bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds – another world’s first.
Dr. Van Rijmenam is a prolific author and has written more than 1,200 articles and five books in his career. As a corporate educator, he is celebrated for his candid, independent, and balanced insights. He is also the founder of Futurwise, which focuses on elevating global knowledge on crucial topics like technology, healthcare, and climate change by providing high-quality, hyper-personalized, and easily digestible insights from trusted sources.
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AI was supposed to close the gap between the best and the rest. Instead, it’s creating an escalator for the elite, while everyone else is left scrambling for the stairs.
Read MoreGoogle’s new AI research assistant is being hyped as a game-changer for science, but so far, it hasn’t actually discovered anything new. If AI is supposed to accelerate breakthroughs, why is it just repackaging existing knowledge?
Read MoreYour AI might be smarter than you today, but give it some time and it might start forgetting things just like your grandpa.
Read MoreAI is now feasting on its own leftovers. The question is: how long before it starves?
Read MoreHalf a trillion dollars later, the AI industry is quietly admitting what some of us have suspected all along: scaling alone won’t get us to AGI. The “just add more GPUs” era is running out of steam.
Read MoreThis week’s Synthetic Minds covers a major breakthrough in quantum computing, Musk’s AI-first government experiment, and Nokia’s lunar 4G network. From AI quietly shaping your thoughts to the enshittification of the internet, we explore the forces redefining our digital and physical world.
Read MoreForget about convincing people to buy your product. AI might be the one making the decision. If your brand isn’t optimized for AI-generated recommendations, you’re already losing customers you never even knew you had.
Read MoreIf AI keeps thinking for us, will we forget how? Generative AI is reshaping knowledge work, but not in the way we hoped.
Read MoreIf your thoughts were transcribed in real-time, would you be comfortable with the world reading them? Scientists just made a major leap in brain decoding AI, and privacy may never be the same again.
Read MoreIf you want funding for your startup, just add “AI” to your pitch. Don’t believe me? 80% of Y Combinator’s startups did exactly that last year, and investors poured $110 billion into AI ventures.
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