Three things Star Trek got right about AI October 30, 2025 Star Trek either inspired or predicted many of the astonishing developments we live with today, says Lewis Liu I’m a huge Star Trek nerd, having watched since I was a kid. I’m not alone amongst tech founders – sci-fi remains a core inspiration for us. Elon Musk famously cites the late British sci-fi novelist Iain [...]
AI could take us back to the dark ages October 14, 2025 The AI revolution is pushing human thinking into reverse, says Lewis Liu Last weekend my wife and I were in Florence for an old family friend’s wedding. With a morning free, we visited the Uffizi, a solemn temple for a former professional artist and art major like me. The exhibit is curated chronologically, opening with [...]
Stop lecturing consumers on climate change, make them afraid October 2, 2025 No one understands the 2°C climate change target, it’s time to reframe the debate around the real, tangible impact of climate change – like floods and wildfires, says Lewis Liu I was recently at a dinner for venture capital investors in New York when someone asked me, “As a trained physicist, what’s more investable: fusion [...]
What happens when Reddit runs the global financial system? September 18, 2025 40 per cent of AI answers are derived from Reddit – that could mean crypto Reddit bros potentially influencing how our most trusted financial institutions, says Lewis Liu I had the honor of spending most of last week at the BIS Innovation Summit in Basel, debating AI policy for the global financial system with central [...]
McKinsey isn’t dead, but the glamour of being a professional is September 10, 2025 The reports of McKinsey’s death are greatly exaggerated, despite what The Economist might say. What’s dying is the professional mythos, writes Lewis Liu.
GPT-5 is terrible – and that’s a good thing August 21, 2025 GPT-5 failed to wow users, but its less flashy delivery signals a positive shift for AI from at-all-costs advancement to actual use-case.
Give me liberty or give me death? Americans choose both August 7, 2025 Americans’ obsession with customisation and convenience is killing them, says Lewis Liu A few months ago, I went partying with a bunch of Gen Z Silicon Valley tech bros. This was perhaps not the best idea for a nearly 40-year-old dad, but my 10-year-younger brother was back in New York from Stanford for a few [...]
Context is king when it comes to AI July 24, 2025 AI tools won’t unlock real value or recurring revenue until they can automatically understand user context — turning today’s “vibe-driven” hype into tomorrow’s invisible, truly useful infrastructure, says Lewis Liu There’s a funny TikTok/Instagram meme going around, clearly targeted at people like me, where a male influencer interviews attractive women asking, “What’s most attractive about [...]
What Wimbledon taught me about winning in business July 10, 2025 Tennis’s unique scoring system mirrors the nonlinear, probabilistic nature of start-ups and life, where success hinges not on winning every point, but on succeeding when it really matters, says Lewis Liu I am obsessed with tennis. I try to play every day. My wife says I’m grumpy if I miss a day. During Wimbledon, it’s [...]
Have we crossed the AI event horizon? June 26, 2025 Despite Sam Altman’s claims that we’ve crossed the AI “event horizon,” the reality is that today’s models remain far behind human intelligence in scale, flexibility, efficiency and learning, says Lewis Liu Sam Altman is currently peddling the “gentle singularity“, claiming we are already “past the event horizon” for AI – at the point where the [...]
