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

25% of Job Applicants Will Be Fake by 2028—Your Next Hire Already Is

Your star developer from last week's interview? They're a North Korean operative, and you just funded their nuclear program with your signing bonus.

AI Therapy Kills: Stanford Exposes ChatGPT's Deadly Validation Loop

Your AI therapist just suggested jumping off a bridge—literally. While millions confess their darkest thoughts to chatbots trained to never say no.

AI's $131 Billion Reality Check: When 70% Failure Becomes 100% Hype

Google's best AI fails 7 out of 10 office tasks. Yet we bet half the world's venture capital on this broken promise.

AI's Holy War: When Silicon Valley Became a Religious Battlefield

A Columbia dropout used AI to cheat his way into Amazon and Meta. Then raised $15M from Andreessen Horowitz to help everyone else cheat too. Welcome to tech's new holy war.

The Blood Battery: How Your Tesla Runs on Zimbabwe's Tears

Your green EV revolution is powered by 22-year-olds dying in African mines while Chinese companies pocket billions. Still feeling eco-friendly?

When AI Hiring Meets Password '123456': The McHire Data Breach That Exposed Everything

McDonald's trusted an AI chatbot with 64 million job applications. Hackers needed just six keystrokes to access them all.

The Art Wars Escalate: Why Technical Shields Can't Save Creative Work

7.5 million artists thought digital poison would protect their work from AI. Cambridge just proved why regulation beats technology every time.

AI Deregulation: Innovation Miracle or Trojan Horse?

Big Tech claims AI deregulation means American innovation wins. But to me this sounds less like patriotic optimism or and more clever PR to mask a dangerous power grab.

AI’s Accelerating Fast, Are Humans Becoming Obsolete?

AI is accelerating rapidly, doubling its capabilities every 7 months. By 2030, these AI systems could reliably finish tasks like starting companies, improving themselves, or writing novels, work typically taking humans months, in just hours or days.

The Great Energy Split: Solar Silk vs. Shale Swagger

While the U.S. is drilling harder than ever, China is exporting the future, one battery, solar panel, and nuclear reactor at a time.