News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 16)

The Future of Supply Chains: Faster, Smarter, and (Mostly) Human-Free

AI and automation are reshaping global supply chains, making warehouses smarter, faster, and more efficient. The question is: Where do humans fit in?

AI Search: Confidently Wrong, Dangerously Inaccurate

If AI search engines were students, they’d be the ones confidently shouting wrong answers in class. Loud enough to convince everyone they were right.

AI Without a Moral Compass? The U.S. Just Rewrote the Rules

AI is now a geopolitical battleground, and America just took a sharp right turn. Under Trump, the US is scrubbing “AI fairness” and “safety” from policy, replacing them with a focus on economic dominance and eliminating ideological bias.

China’s Quantum Leap: A 1 Quadrillion-Time Wake-Up Call

Forget supercomputers. China just built a quantum processor that makes them look like abacuses. The Zuchongzhi 3.0 chip completed a task 1 million times faster than Google’s last-gen quantum chip and is 1 quadrillion times faster than the world’s top supercomputers.

AI With Brain Cells? The Birth of Biohybrid Intelligence

AI writing poetry was cute. AI mimicking human thought was impressive. But AI growing real brain cells to process data? That’s where things get weird.

AI Meets the Scientific Method—Is This the Birth of Scientific Superintelligence?

If AI can write poetry and generate memes, why not redesign the laws of physics while it’s at it? Lila Sciences claims it’s building scientific superintelligence, an AI-driven lab that could revolutionize discovery.

AI-Powered Robots Are Here—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

If AI chatbots giving bad advice was concerning, wait until they start physically acting on it. Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics takes AI beyond the chat window, bringing language models into real-world automation.

Superintelligent AI: The New Nuclear Arms Race?

If you thought nuclear deterrence was terrifying, welcome to its AI-powered sequel. The global AI race is heating up, and nations are already considering cyberattacks to prevent rivals from gaining the upper hand. Have we learned nothing from history?

Regulating the Future: Why Our Laws Are Already Obsolete

We regulate technology like it’s a museum exhibit: slow, rigid, and always one step behind. AI, Web3, and quantum computing don’t wait for policymakers to catch up. The question is: do we build laws that evolve, or keep playing catch-up until it’s too late?

Brains in a Box: AI Just Got a Pulse

Forget silicon, your next AI might be made of neurons. Cortical Labs is selling a $35,000 bio-computer powered by lab-grown human brain cells. The question isn’t whether it works, but whether we’re ready for what comes next.