News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 25)

China’s AI Champion: DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise

China’s AI ambitions just took a giant leap forward. DeepSeek is spreading faster than ChatGPT in a Silicon Valley boardroom, but is this AI revolution real, or just a state-backed PR push?

AI-Powered Surveillance: The Game No One Admits Playing

Turns out, AI isn’t just making deepfakes and writing poetry. It’s also debugging surveillance tools that governments conveniently pretend don’t exist.

Innovation Economy: The New Hard Skill Era

The knowledge economy is dead. Welcome to the innovation economy, where soft skills become the new hard skills.

The End of the Engine: Why Ford’s Rock Stars Are Being Replaced by Coders

For a century, engineers were the rock stars of the auto industry. Now, they’re being replaced by chemists and coders. As Ford pivots to EVs, engine specialists are expendable, their intricate craft reduced to a modular, software-driven process. Is this progress, or is the aut...

AI, Oil, and Power: Why Jürgen Schmidhuber is Betting on Saudi Arabia

AI is the new oil, and Saudi Arabia is determined not to miss this boom. While the West debates ethics and China refines existing models, Saudi Arabia is pouring trillions into AI research, aiming to leapfrog traditional tech powers.

Liquid Metal? No, Just Shape-Shifting Robots

The Terminator T-1000 isn’t here (yet), but scientists have built robots that can flow like liquid, solidify into tools, and even hold a human’s weight. Welcome to the next era of robotics, where machines don’t just move, they morph.

AI Just Learned to Write DNA—What Could Go Wrong?

What happens when AI starts writing genomes from scratch? Evo-2, the largest biological AI model ever, just did exactly that.

Meta Just Put Misinformation on the Fast Track

Meta’s latest move is clear: fact-checkers are out, virality is in. By scrapping its U.S. fact-checking program while paying bonuses for engagement, the company is financially incentivizing misinformation. What could possibly go wrong?

Agentic AI: The Intern That Won’t Take a Coffee Break

AI isn’t just assisting anymore, it’s deciding. Agentic AI is moving beyond chatbots and into real-world autonomy, running supply chains, adjusting financial trades, and even managing employees.

AI Won’t Level the Playing Field—It’ll Tilt It

AI was supposed to close the gap between the best and the rest. Instead, it’s creating an escalator for the elite, while everyone else is left scrambling for the stairs.