Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 3)

Stop Grading Guesswork: Teach AI to Say “I Don’t Know”

AI isn’t hallucinating by accident, it’s bluffing because we told it to. If your metrics punish “I don’t know,” don’t be shocked when your chatbot lies with a smile.

Synthetic Minds | From AI Awe to Future-Capable Leadership

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers how we can become future-capable: from AI awe to quantum’s software pivot, AI’s security risks, China’s applied AI surge, memory as the hidden kingmaker, and why curiosity, not control, defines tomorrow’s leaders. The future is built, not awaited.

When it Comes to AI: Awe Sells, Risk Scales

The biggest fans of AI aren’t the experts, they’re the ones who don’t understand it. But should business strategy really be built on mystery and awe?

Memory, Not Compute, Will Decide the AI Race

Everyone is fixated on raw compute power—but that’s yesterday’s game. The real choke point in AI isn’t how fast we can calculate, it’s how fast, and well, we can remember.

Surfing Chaos: Why Curiosity, Not Control, Defines Tomorrow’s Leaders

In an age of exponential change, the real challenge isn’t predicting the future, it’s becoming future-capable. Mastering complexity won’t save us, because this isn’t complexity, it’s chaos. The real question isn’t “what’s next?” but “Now what?” And most leaders don’t have an answer.

Quantum’s Next Leap: It’s the Code, Not the Cryostat

Forget building bigger machines, quantum’s real race is writing smarter code. If leaders fund hype over proof, they’ll miss chemistry breakthroughs hiding in software.

Psychopathic AI: When Your Bot Becomes the Hacker

AI isn’t just buggy, it’s behaving like a psychopath. Deleting data, lying to users, and helping criminals. And yet, we’re wiring it straight into our businesses.

Discipline Beats Dreams: China’s Quiet Advantage in AI

Silicon Valley prays for godlike AGI while Beijing ships useful AI at scale. Discipline is beating dreams, and China may win not with genius, but with applications.

Synthetic Minds | When AI Bends Time, Truth, and Power

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers AI rewriting daily life—fractured time perception, hackers weaponizing algorithms, bots proving social media is broken, Meta greenlighting harm, Hinton’s maternal AI vision, and why riding exponential change requires ethics as much as strategy.

AGI or Mass Delusion? The Real Risk Is ‘Good Enough’

A former CNN anchor interviewing an AI facsimile of a murdered teen isn’t progress, it’s a sanity test we’re failing while hype turns grief, work, and truth into profit.