Dragonfly thinking, evolution of multi-agent, combining global human talent, and more

📖In this issue

• Speaking Topics and Speaker Profile 2025

• The evolution of LLM multi-agents

• The potential of global human talent

• The unique role of humans in strategic thinking

• Anthea Roberts on dragonfly thinking, integrating multiple perspectives, human-AI metacognition, and cognitive renaissance

• The latest AI announcements point to continued high pace development in 2025

💡Speaking Topics and Speaker Profile 2025

The times the are a’changing, and so are the topics I speak on. If you or colleagues engage keynote speakers for internal or external events check out the my speaker profile for 2025.

Here are my featured speaking topics for next year (every keynote is customized for the client and objectives, these are examples only.

🌟 Humans + AI in the Future of Work
The future of work will be massively shaped by the rise of AI. In this thought-provoking and inspiring keynote, Ross Dawson provides guidance on what is driving the future of work, the role of AI, and how to create highly successful organizations as AI capabilities rapidly grow.

🚀 Leadership for an Accelerating World
Today’s extraordinary pace of change and uncertainty demands new leadership characteristics. In this inspiring and pragmatic keynote, learn the capabilities for creating the future, the behaviors that underlie exceptional performance, and the path to becoming tomorrow’s vanguard leader.

🤖 The Rise of the AI Agent Economy
The next phase of the global economy will be defined by an explosion of AI agents working, collaborating, and representing customers. Dawson shares clear, powerful insights into the rise of the agent economy and how leaders and organizations can seize the massive opportunities.

📚 Thriving on Information Overload
In a world of unrelenting information overload, there is a clear set of habits, approaches, and technologies that can help us to keep on top of the pace of change. Learn how to master information, develop world-class expertise, excel at work, and go from overwhelm to well-being.

🧠 How to Amplify Your Thinking and Capabilities
The rise of AI and acceleration of everything means we urgently need to amplify our capabilities. Stand by for an engaging and deeply practical keynote on how to improve your attention, augment yourself with AI, learn faster, keep on top of overload, and find yourself.

🧠🤖Humans + AI

The evolution of LLM multi-agents

The LLM multi-agent space is rapidly evolving. A very nice survey paper looks at the state of evolution, progress, and resources in the multi-agent space. It looks in particular at multi-agent domains, environments, enablers, mechanisms for improving capacity, and ecosystem resources.

Large Language Model based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges
Summary of key insights

The potential of global human talent

NeurIPS - the world's premier AI conference - starts today, unveiling a wealth of top research. "Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise" is one exciting paper, sharing an evolutionary AI framework that distills and recombines human expertise in major challenges.

Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise
Summary of key insights

The unique role of humans in strategic thinking

"By using AI’s computational prowess to augment human judgment, rather than replace it, organizations can capitalize on its strengths while still relying on human intuition, creativity, and causal reasoning to innovate and lead in uncharted territories."

In Harvard Business Review, Teppo Felin and Matthias Holweg clearly lay out the distinctive competences of AI and humans in strategic thinking. Considering the limitations of AI they propose 3 ways that we can use generative AI in future-focused leadership.

AI Thinks Differently Than People Do. Here’s Why That Matters.
Summary of key insights

🎙️This week’s podcast episode

Why you should listen

I love the work Anthea Roberts is doing, explicitly bringing and integrating diverse perspectives into complex cognition and decision-making. Coming from a being one of the world’s most respected global governance experts, she is applying her insight to amplifying intelligence.

💡Reflections

The latest AI announcements point to continued high pace development in 2025

December is proving to be a bumper month for AI announcements.

OpenAI’s “12 days of ship-mas” has already given use open access to Sora (see our simple Amplifying Cognition video below), Advanced Voice Mode with vision (very impressive) , Canvas, and a lot more

Google appears to have caught up with the leaders, with Gemini 2.0 not only a top-calibre model but also with impressive features such as streaming API, Deep Research for deep web research, and announcements including Project Mariner, which will allow AI to control the browser.

Announcements from Meta include Motivo to control digital avatars, and from Microsoft Phi-4, a high-performance lightweight model.

All of which suggests that 2025 is not going to disappoint in AI progress.

There are questions about the pace of underlying foundational model development, but the application of current technologies is rolling out to extremely pratical cases.