AI Articles by Futurist Mark van Rijmenam

AI Just Became the Method, Not the Microscope

A software company that never owned a lab has decided to make its own medicines. For four centuries, better science meant a sharper microscope. Now AI is becoming the method itself, and much of that method is privately owned. The prize: curing the incurable. The price: knowledge that arrives owned.

The AI Readiness Test You Can Actually Talk To

Walk into any Fortune 500 boardroom and you'll hear the same: "We are well positioned for AI." Walk 2 floors down and you'll hear something else entirely. The Intelligence Age Scorecard exists to surface that gap, and it is the only assessment you can actually discuss with the futurist who built it.

Vibe Coding Works. Not the Way Most Executives Think It Does.

Vibe coding is the most over-hyped idea in technology today, and one of the most consequential. I built the Intelligence Age Scorecard with it in five weeks — no engineers, no dev shop, no code. Here are the disciplines that shipped it, and the patterns that almost destroyed it along the way.

When Intelligence Is Everywhere and Judgment Is Scarce

AI removes interpretation. Automation removes labour. Robotics removes physical limits. Together, they move at machine speed. But intelligence was never really the scarce resource — judgment was. We are automating the roles where people learn it. Design versus drift. That choice cannot be automated.

I Built an Interactive Voice-Narrated Masterclass From My Book in One Weekend

Book → 8 interactive HTML episodes → 13,000+ words of narration → voice cloning via ElevenLabs + Claude Code (MCP) → deployed with Ghost. No team. No studio. One weekend. AI didn’t write the ideas, it erased the bottleneck.

The Future of Finance Is Autonomous and Always-On

Markets have crossed into the second half of the chessboard: tokenised rails, always-on settlement, AI-led decisions, and quantum-era security risk. The old governance cadence is dead. The new mandate is design over drift—accountability engineered into the system.

When Intelligence Stops Being the Problem

We’re building systems that can analyse, predict, simulate and persuade at superhuman levels, while relying on political, legal and organisational structures that were designed for a world where intelligence was scarce and slow. That is a dangerous gap.

Riding the Tsunami of Change: From Awareness to Action in the Intelligence Age

Exponential forces aren’t gentle waves; they crash like tsunamis. Will we merely brace for impact, or will we learn to master the currents? Complexity is not a barrier; it is our new normal.

Architects of the Intelligence Age: Redesigning Education to Thrive Amid Exponential Change

As nations mandate AI curricula and immersive tech reshapes classrooms, education stands at a pivotal moment. Schools globally must shift from passive learning to cultivating creativity, adaptability, and empathy, transforming students from observers into active architects of the future.

What Does Future Leadership Look Like in the Age of AI?

Leadership is being rewritten, from the top down. In the Age of AI, strategy isn’t about managing disruption; it’s about thriving. It requires an evolved mindset; one that integrates AI, ethics, and empathy in real time. Leaders must shift from command-and-control to watch-and-empower.

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