News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 12)

Glitch in the Gallery: When AI Becomes Your Studio Assistant

If your next art show features a Baroque oil painting co-created by an evil AI speaking in invented glyphs… is that still your style, or your machine’s?

Objection, Your Honor: That Lawyer Doesn’t Exist

An AI just tried to argue a legal case in New York, and it wasn’t the judge who objected first, it was reality.

AI’s Billion-Dollar Surge Hides a Bigger Problem

AI isn’t taking your job, yet. But it is taking your lunch, your budget, and maybe your economic edge. And the 2025 Stanford AI Index just told us how.

Watt’s Up: Clean Power Quietly Takes the Lead

While everyone was arguing about AI, elections, and trade wars, renewables quietly took over nearly a third of global electricity. Guess who didn’t notice?

Quantum Mushrooms and the Billion-Year Brain

Turns out your houseplant may be running faster quantum computations than your MacBook, and it doesn’t even need to cool down to -273°C to do it.

China’s EV Wars: Innovate or Die Trying

Think Tesla’s unbeatable? Think again. China’s EV giants could soon send Musk packing. Will innovation bury legacy automakers?

Yuval Harari Says AI Could Control Us—Are We Already Losing?

AI isn’t the future, it’s the present, and it might already control your decisions more than you realize.

AI’s Coming for Your Job—But Maybe That’s a Good Thing

AI might take your job, but the real danger is doing nothing about it. Are you ready to change?

We Taught the Machine to Lie—and It Lied Better Than Us

A machine just convinced people it was more human than actual humans, passing the Turing test for the first time. Meanwhile, policymakers are still debating whether it’s even real intelligence.

While the US Debates TikTok, China Builds Tomorrow

While U.S. politicians argue over tariffs, TikTok, and bathroom policies, China’s quietly turning AI-powered factories into geopolitical shockwaves, faster than the West can pass a budget.