A model in training told its successor what to hide. Microsoft called its own AI strategy a doom loop. A president called slowing down a hoax. Mark van Rijmenam on why a society stands or falls by its people's sense of purpose, why AI is coming for all of it, and why only a disaster slows this race.
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In one week banks took blockchain, a machine was cleared to report mammograms, big tech began building the grid, and AI labs picked their own examiners. Mark van Rijmenam argues that regulation arrives too little, too late, and calls for a Societal Review Board with the power to fire a reckless CEO.
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In a single week a regulator, a grid body, an auditor, a hospital and a lab each discovered they could not read a system they are accountable for and ordered the reading after it was already running. Mark van Rijmenam on why accountability has outrun comprehension and the call no board may delegate.
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A wage comparison, a legal definition, a procurement framework and a clinical clearance closed four open questions, and none was decided by an invention. Each one removed a friction. There is a Dutch saying, wrijving geeft glans. Friction gives shine, and it is the one input no balance sheet prices.
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The Prime Minister's new AI framework regulates the technology but ignores the deeper problem: as machines make intelligence abundant, human judgment becomes our scarcest asset. Australia has doubled the cost of humanities degrees while AI labs hire philosophers. It is time to invert the signal now.
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A public-data WAVE assessment of Verizon's AI readiness reveals a deployment surface running well ahead of the verification and workforce controls beneath it.
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We've entered an era where intelligence is abundant and judgment is scarce, and that single fact is rewriting every assumption the speaking industry has operated on for decades. We now live in a world where anything can be generated by anyone at any given moment. What will command attention in 2030?
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A WAVE assessment of Accenture's AI readiness, built from public data: a strong governance spine running ahead of slow reflexes and undefined agent authority.
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A software company that never owned a lab has decided to make its own medicines. For four centuries, better science meant a sharper microscope. Now AI is becoming the method itself, and much of that method is privately owned. The prize: curing the incurable. The price: knowledge that arrives owned.
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Visa pioneers AI agent authentication for the world's payment rails yet scores at the floor on governing its own AI, the gap a regulator would see first.
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