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Digital transformation #mindcandy 2 September 2025
The topics are you are the upgrade, China, analyst, boring industries, the AI experimentation trap, risk analytics, and chatbot wellness.
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-getting-serious-about-brain-computer-interfaces/
A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses.
Analysts are Redefining Business: Here’s why Every Organisation Should Follow their Lead
We’re seeing data analysts emerge as AI frontrunners – not only in how they’re using the technology but in how they’re proving its worth. They’re demonstrating how to extract tangible business value from AI and, in doing so, setting a precedent for how it can be adopted across business functions.
How AI Quietly Revolutionises World’s “Boring” Industries
Manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and healthcare might not be Silicon Valley’s favourite buzzwords, but they’re the bedrock of the global economy. And right now, they’re having a serious AI-powered upgrade.
Beware the AI Experimentation Trap
https://hbr.org/2025/08/beware-the-ai-experimentation-trap
Many leaders are making the same mistake they made a decade earlier with digital transformation: encouraging experimentation, which is good, but falling into the trap of letting experimentation run wild, which is counterproductive.
Elevating Risk Analytics With Contextual Intelligence and Semantic Layers
Gartner estimates that poor data quality costs organizations USD12.9 million per year on average — and often, the root cause is not missing information, but misaligned meaning
Chatbot ‘wellness’ obscures grotesque ethical violations of AI industry
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/chatbot-wellness-opinion
AI companies are on board with imbuing their algorithms with human qualities. But the fuzzy, feel-good talk of wellness hides dark truths
