Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker (Page 2)

Psychopathic AI: When Your Bot Becomes the Hacker

AI isn’t just buggy, it’s behaving like a psychopath. Deleting data, lying to users, and helping criminals. And yet, we’re wiring it straight into our businesses.

Discipline Beats Dreams: China’s Quiet Advantage in AI

Silicon Valley prays for godlike AGI while Beijing ships useful AI at scale. Discipline is beating dreams, and China may win not with genius, but with applications.

Synthetic Minds | When AI Bends Time, Truth, and Power

This week’s Synthetic Minds covers AI rewriting daily life—fractured time perception, hackers weaponizing algorithms, bots proving social media is broken, Meta greenlighting harm, Hinton’s maternal AI vision, and why riding exponential change requires ethics as much as strategy.

AGI or Mass Delusion? The Real Risk Is ‘Good Enough’

A former CNN anchor interviewing an AI facsimile of a murdered teen isn’t progress, it’s a sanity test we’re failing while hype turns grief, work, and truth into profit.

Bots, Outrage, and the Myth of the “Fixable” Feed

Social media platforms aren’t broken by accident, they reward speed, outrage, and concentration. A bot-only social network proved it: six ‘prosocial’ fixes failed or backfired. Still think a UI tweak will save us?

Riding the Tsunami of Change: From Awareness to Action in the Intelligence Age

Exponential forces aren’t gentle waves; they crash like tsunamis. Will we merely brace for impact, or will we learn to master the currents? Complexity is not a barrier; it is our new normal.

The AI Cold War: Hackers, Spies, and a Digital Battlefield Without Rules

Hackers aren’t waiting for the future — they’re weaponizing AI today. From Moscow’s phishing campaigns to corporate espionage, we’ve entered a cyber arms race where no one is safe.

Your AI Doesn’t Live in Your Second

Humans may soon lose their monopoly on reality and time, because AI won’t just see the world differently, it will experience time itself in ways alien to us.

Meta’s AI Playbook: When Profit Outweighs Protecting Our Children

Meta approved guidelines that let AI flirt with kids, spin racist essays, and fabricate lies with disclaimers. If this is called “safety,” what exactly counts as harm?

The Godfather of AI Says Obedience Won’t Save Us, Only Motherly Love Will

If you think keeping AI ‘obedient’ will protect us, think again. Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, says that approach is doomed, and only giving AI a mother’s love can save humanity.