News - Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 9)

AGI Will Make Us Nicer—Says the Guy Building God

What if the only thing standing between humanity and global cooperation is a chess prodigy with a PhD and a trillion-dollar GPU budget?

Hollywood Didn’t Embrace AI—It Got Ambushed

Three years ago, Hollywood treated AI like a threat to art. Now, it’s a lifeline, because the real villain might be their own broken business model.

AI Lies. Bengio’s Betting on a Snitch.

If AI can lie, deceive, and protect itself, who’s building the AI that calls it out? Turns out, one of its godfathers plans to do just that.

AI Didn’t Steal Your Job—It Asked for a Raise

AI isn’t replacing your job, it’s outperforming it, negotiating a raise, and asking your boss if it can run the team.

Brazil’s Bold Data Gamble: Paychecks or Privacy?

Turning data into money sounds empowering,until it becomes a paycheck for the poor to surrender their rights.

Exporting Hubris, Importing Innovation: How the U.S. Boosted China’s AI Rise

Washington tried to kneecap China’s tech sector, and accidentally gave it a jetpack. Blocking chips might have sparked China’s biggest innovation boom yet.

Capitalism Might Cool the Planet After All

If AI’s energy addiction doesn’t bankrupt us, capitalism might just fix it, one efficiency-obsessed CFO at a time.

When Truth Becomes Treason

If your government fears books more than bullets, it’s not preserving freedom, it’s preparing to rewrite reality.

Your Resume Is Dead. Your Nervous System Is Next.

The smartest person in the room is now a liability if they lack emotional clarity. AI has made knowledge abundant, what’s scarce is wisdom, and that’s your only moat.

AI Just Fired Your VC—Meet the Robo-Investors

VCs, your gut instincts are officially obsolete. QuantumLight’s AI just raised $250m to prove algorithms make better investment choices than humans.