Hamilton Mann received the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award 2025, in partnership with VAR Group, at the Thinkers50 London Summit & Awards Gala.

The acceleration of technological advancement – particularly AI – is rapidly and fundamentally reshaping the business landscape. The Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award applauds a visionary whose work illuminates the complex implications of our evolving digital reality. It celebrates thought leaders who translate the technological revolution into practical management frameworks.

In a courtroom in Los Angeles, a young woman’s life, her initials, K.G.M., was reduced to evidence. Hours spent scrolling. Nights without sleep. A mind drawn, again and again, toward a glowing screen that never asked her to stop. Meta and YouTube were found liable for negligence in protecting a minor, with damages awarded for the psychological toll of systems that plaintiffs argued were engineered to be addictive and exploit their developmental vulnerabilities.

Hamilton Mann in Conversation with Jyoti Guptara at the 2024 Global Peter Drucker Forum on Artificial Integrity.

he race for AI has become the new black, the dominant obsession of our time, the trend no institution, company, or government wants to appear to miss. It is framed as progress, justified in the name of competitiveness, and presented as inevitable.

The importance of identity as a human right cannot be underestimated, especially when considering the broader implications for economic empowerment and social stability. In countries where a robust identity system is not in place, people often possess potential assets but lack the formal recognition needed to leverage them effectively.

Persuasion has no dark side. Only the intentions of those who wield it do, and GenAI is not inherently endowed with such intentions, neither for itself nor by itself.

There has been considerable speculation recently about the potential of generative AI to significantly boost worker productivity. However, among the challenges companies face when deploying genAI, there is one that is particularly unique to business and applies to any solution an organization might consider deploying: the realization of return on investment.

Technology is providing innovative tools and methods for creation, while simultaneously transforming how audiences interact with and appreciate art. Digital art forms, virtual reality, 3D printing, and the use of artificial intelligence are redefining traditional creative boundaries, fostering an era of unprecedented artistic expression and ingenuity.

We spend our time clicking for much of our lives. Each of these clicks, while seemingly benign, collectively feeds into a vast digital ecosystem in which our preferences and behaviors are not only recorded, but analyzed and used to influence our decisions at an unprecedented scale.

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A phenomenon of “AI-formization” is emerging, a term I coined to describe the subtle yet profound impact that AI algorithms are having on cu

The level of demand for trust in AI will condition the level of human agency we will implicitly decide to have in many decisions.

In Alan Turing's seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," he posed the now-famous question, “Can machines think?” —an...

The Path for the Future of AI The concept of “artificial integrity” proposes a critical framework for the future of AI. It emphasises the...

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In the pursuit of harnessing the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), businesses and researchers grapple with paradoxes that...

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