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Scenario prompt 12 September 2025
The scenario prompts for today is AI. I had the pleasure of attending a workshop with the brilliant Fiona O`Carrol on AI (as part of our DCCI and Trinity College Design & Craft Accelerator programme). Embrace it. It is fundamentally shifting business models.
There is no escape.
25 books, chatbots, slow is fast and AI as an accountability sink.
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You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots?
https://undark.org/2025/09/12/critical-thinking-chatbots/
Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.
Why slow is the new fast
In boardrooms and startup accelerators around the world, a counterintuitive truth is emerging: the leaders who move fastest are often the ones who deliberately slow down.
AI and unaccountability sinks
https://www.ronimmink.com/ai-and-unaccountability-sinks/
The Unaccountability Machine is about the biggest problem of modern industrial life – the problem of being overloaded with information, of trying to get a drink from a firehose. When people are overwhelmed by information, they always react in the same way – by building systems and by narrowing the information space.
