News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 24)

When AI Feels Pain: Are We Ready for Conscious Machines?

What happens if the next breakthrough in AI gives us machines that can suffer? Are we prepared to give robots the same moral status as animals?

DNA Nanorobots: The Future of Synthetic Biology and Therapeutic Delivery

Why rely on biology alone when you can program synthetic cells to do its job better?

Google’s AI Ethics Just Got a Quiet Makeover—Should We Be Worried?

Google once promised its AI wouldn’t be used for weapons, surveillance, or harm. This week, those promises quietly disappeared...

AI and Humans: A Power Duo or Just a Messy Divorce?

We’ve been sold the idea that AI and humans working together will outperform either alone but what if that’s wrong? New research suggests that in many cases, AI-human collaboration actually underperforms compared to AI alone or skilled humans. So, are we integrating AI the wro...

The Data Center Boom Won’t Stop—But Should It?

AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on data centers the size of small cities, devouring energy and land at a record pace. Tech giants are spending hundreds of billions to fuel AI’s expansion, but with rising power shortages and government pushback, how long before this growth hit...

China’s AI Startups Are Booming—Should the West Be Worried?

While Silicon Valley debates how to respond to Deepseek, China is busy building the next AI superpowers. With billions in funding and backing from tech giants, startups like Stepfun, ModelBest, and Zhipu AI aren’t just competing, they’re leapfrogging.

DeepSeek Derailed: National Security vs. AI Hype

When technology crosses borders, trust and security become the ultimate battleground. DeepSeek’s rise may be impressive, but its risks are too high.

OpenAI’s Next Move? Humanoid Robots and AI Wearables

OpenAI isn’t just building smarter AI. It’s building the devices we’ll use to interact with it. A new trademark application hints at AI-powered robots, VR headsets, and even smart jewelry. If this is OpenAI’s next frontier, Apple, Meta, and Tesla should be paying attention.

AI Is Making Us Smarter—Or Just More Helpless?

We’re not becoming 10x more productive with AI—we’re becoming 10x more dependent. Developers, analysts, and business leaders alike are outsourcing thinking to AI, and when it’s unavailable, many find themselves paralyzed. This isn’t an upgrade—it’s a quiet erosion of critical ...

AI Is Breaking Science, And We’re Letting It

AI-generated misinformation is moving from social media into the academic world. The same tools that can write PhD-level research in minutes are also churning out perfectly plausible nonsense, and most people won’t spot the difference.