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Scenario prompts 21 November 2024
Today’s prompts are language, AI hallucination, the CEO’s essential checklist, terrorism, ethical hackers, the end of branding, 2025 tech trends, and nano printers.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
When AI will start to buy, will that be the of branding?
AI Won’t Protect Endangered Languages
https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-22/artificial-intelligence-llm-endangered-languages
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
When Guessing Isn’t Good Enough
https://every.to/also-true-for-humans/when-guessing-isn-t-good-enough
Solving AI hallucination with retrieval augmented generation
The CEO’s essential checklist: Questions every chief executive should be able to answer
Be bold.
Will AI Help Terrorists Build Weapons of Mass Destruction? It’s Complicated, Study Says
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a62938636/ai-biological-weapons-attack/
Time to re-read “I am pilgrim”.
3 leadership lessons we can learn from ethical hackers
https://venturebeat.com/security/3-leadership-lessons-we-can-learn-from-ethical-hackers/
The best hackers have mastered what I call the “hacker mindset.” It is a relentless commitment to curiosity, vision, transparency and shaping the world — despite perceived boundaries.
Perplexity’s AI search engine can now buy products for you
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/18/24299574/perplexity-ai-search-engine-buy-products
The beginning of the end of branding? Complete transparency and does an AI have brand loyalty?
2025 Tech Trends
https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Tech-Trends-2025.pdf
Cyborgs, AI agents, open source, spatial computing, space and a lot more
Nanoprinter turns Meta’s AI predictions into potentially game-changing materials
https://thenextweb.com/news/nanoprinter-turns-metas-ai-predictions-into-hundreds-of-nanomaterials
The tech promises to shorten nanomaterial discovery from decades to just a few months
