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The Lost Art of the Meeting Minute
Across boardrooms, project teams, and executive committees, the humble meeting minute - one of the most underrated instruments of corporate governance - is being quietly retired in favour of AI-generated transcripts, automated summaries, and action-list algorithms. But are these tools really delivering ROI?
When the Machine Says No
Recent research from UC Berkeley highlights the phenomenon of Peer Preservation within AI models. Does this already have real-world implications for IT Administrators?
Mythos, Quantum, and the Cyber Challenge
For boardrooms, CISOs and infrastructure directors, Mythos is the clearest signal yet that the threat landscape is bending faster than most enterprise security programmes can adapt. And it arrives at a moment when most of those programmes are still losing the battle against their own legacy estate.
The AI Fire Drill
Here is an uncomfortable proposition: the better your AI system performs, the more dangerous it becomes. Not because the outputs are wrong, but because they are almost always right. And “almost always right” is precisely the condition that makes human oversight fail.
Agent overload – the growing problem of agentic sprawl
A year ago, most organisations were experimenting with a handful of AI assistants. Today, many are quietly running dozens. Soon, it may be hundreds - welcome to the era of agentic sprawl.
Matt Shumer says the sky is on fire. What should you do about it?
Matt Shumer’s X post on the near-term implications of AI has more than 80M views and has attracted wide-spread press coverage. In this response Refractis’s own James Todd seeks to sift the hype from the reality.
AI: The only way is ethics
Rapid advances in machine learning technology have broadened both the capability and the ubiquity of AI systems. But how can we be sure that the machines are reaching fair conclusions and what safeguards should be put in place?