News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bots, Outrage, and the Myth of the “Fixable” Feed

Social media platforms aren’t broken by accident, they reward speed, outrage, and concentration. A bot-only social network proved it: six ‘prosocial’ fixes failed or backfired. Still think a UI tweak will save us?

The AI Cold War: Hackers, Spies, and a Digital Battlefield Without Rules

Hackers aren’t waiting for the future — they’re weaponizing AI today. From Moscow’s phishing campaigns to corporate espionage, we’ve entered a cyber arms race where no one is safe.

Your AI Doesn’t Live in Your Second

Humans may soon lose their monopoly on reality and time, because AI won’t just see the world differently, it will experience time itself in ways alien to us.