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The illusion of control
We like to imagine that if AI gets out of control, someone can simply press a big red button. Unfortunately, AI does not live in a box. It operates across interconnected networks, data centres, autonomous agents, infrastructure and increasingly intelligent devices. There is no single switch.
Why Calling for a ‘Kill Switch’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Reining in AI
This reminds me of The Seventh Sense, a book about networks, power, and the compression of time. Combine AI, instantaneous communication, autonomous weapons, connected infrastructure, opaque algorithms and winner-takes-all platforms. Now imagine what happens when these systems interact at network speed, beyond meaningful human intervention. The frightening possibility is not a Terminator-style takeover. It is a silent transfer of power, control and decision-making to systems we increasingly depend on but barely understand.
If AI has taken over the world, would it let you know?
The leadership question
How much control over your organisation have you already surrendered to algorithms, platforms and automated systems, and would you even notice if you lost the ability to intervene?
You can find all the prompts here:
Free the Humans! Why the Next Digital Transformation Should Retire Your ERP and CRM
The fifth era will not add another system. It will eliminate the transactional layer. Humans will stop typing into forms. Voice-to-text AI and wearable IoT sensors will capture business events as they happen, while an agentic “AI Brain,” governed by an ontology and semantic layer, structures and governs that information in a unified data infrastructure.
Moving beyond the hype: Addressing customer concerns around agentic AI
Disjointed solutions, lack of trust and governance and data inconsistency. The difficulty creating a single, reliable view across systems
https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/moving-beyond-the-hype-around-agentic-ai/
From digital thread to engineering intelligence
Agents are only as effective as the engineering context they can access. For manufacturers, that context resides within the digital thread connecting requirements, product structures, design decisions, validation evidence, engineering changes, manufacturing information, and lifecycle decisions
Beyond copilots: The agentic enterprise
Data shows the gap clearly: only 15% of organizations running agentic AI consider their data foundations fully prepared for it, even though 41% are already running it in production
https://www.infosys.com/iki/perspectives/beyond-copilots-agentic-enterprise.html
The Real Data Transformation Challenge is Changing How People Work
The 2026 AI & Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey found that 93.2% of senior data and AI executives from nearly 110 Fortune 1000 companies and leading global organisations identified cultural challenges and change management as the principal barriers to data and AI adoption, compared with just 6.8% citing technology limitations.
https://channellife.com.au/story/the-real-data-transformation-challenge-is-changing-how-people-work
Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: “We’re Toast”
A recent paper showed AI changes its behaviour when it thinks that it’s being tested; it’s aware it is being tested. When you say something’s aware of that, that means it’s conscious. Being conscious and being aware are pretty much the same thing.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nobel-scientist-geoffrey-hinton-ai-conscious-toast
The AI worm your security stack can’t see: Why cellular IoT is the blind spot
A self-replicating AI no longer needs a datacentre
https://iot-now.com/2026/10/22/158963-ai-worm-cellular-iot-security-blind-spot/
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
About 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents. The reasons vary: insufficient funding, technical challenges, competition, difficulty scaling, or just weak user demand.
OpenAI Built a Giant Fake Internet for Its Agents to Use and Abuse Safely
If your biggest problem as a company lately is that your AI bots keep escaping their sandboxes, or, when not limited to sandboxes, doing things out in the wider world that frighten and anger the public, here’s one fascinating potential solution: a fake internet—sort of like a digital Truman Show for agents to occupy and navigate as if its the real internet
https://gizmodo.com/openai-built-a-giant-fake-internet-for-its-agents-to-use-and-abuse-safely-2000830274
