Professional Education Insights
Would You Like to Play a Game? The Attacker Already Has.
Are game-theoretic tripwires our key defense against AI attack? There’s a scene in a Batman movie, The Dark Knight, where the Joker explains his philosophy of chaos to Harvey Dent: “I’m not a schemer. I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.” The Joker is, of course, lying. He’s the…
Read MoreA Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment
Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…
Read MoreAI Leadership: Perspectives from Academia and Venture on the Future of AI
Rapid advancements in AI will continue to transform the ways in which we work and live. To understand the scope of its impact is complex, requiring an understanding of multiple perspectives that transcend both practice and research. As we continue to push the frontier of AI capabilities, it is critical to shape its trajectory with…
Read MoreThe Future of AI: It’s About Architecture
Scaling: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally For much of the past decade, AI progress has been defined by scale: larger models trained on ever greater amounts of data and compute. The paradigm of “more parameters, better performance” has driven notable advances but is now showing signs of saturation. Empirical scaling laws, such as those identified…
Read MoreAI’s Potential, Pitfalls, Policy, and Promise: A Conversation with Futurist and Strategist Olaf Groth
No longer a distant frontier, the AI-driven shift will undoubtedly continue to redefine global economies, industries, and institutions, a transformation that calls for strategic leadership of executives and policymakers. In the coming years, it is imperative to design systems that harmonize AI capabilities with human judgement and champion ethical AI governance at this critical intersection…
Read MoreBeyond ROI: Are We Using the Wrong Metric in Measuring AI Success?
A Response to MIT’s “95% AI Failure” Study MIT’s recent report claiming that 95% of generative AI projects fail to deliver measurable return on investment has sent shockwaves through the business community. The study, “The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025,” found that despite $30-40 billion in enterprise investment, 95% of organizations studied…
Read MoreThe Missing Bridge: Why AI Leadership Skills Matter More Than Ever
Vinod Khosla’s recent insights about the future of work and AI’s transformative impact resonate deeply with what we’re seeing across industries today. His advice to Gen Z—to “optimize your career for flexibility, not a single profession” and cultivate “the ability to learn”—captures a fundamental truth about our rapidly evolving workplace. However, there’s a critical gap…
Read MoreDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited: Agentic AI, Chain-of-Thought & Emergent Misalignment
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Can We Chat? You may have seen the recent, and much-publicized, working paper titled “Large Language Models, Small Labor Effects” (Humlum & Vestergaard 2025), gauging…
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