Michael Spencer

AiSupremacy

AI Supremacy is the name of my flagship Newsletter, but I also do analysis, research and curation on the semiconductor industry, quantum computing, robotics & physical AI in addition to other topics including startups, Venture Capital, technology trends and AI news at the intersection of tech, business, society and culture.

Founder

Last Futurist  

The "Last Futurist" launched on November 17th, 2019 and is a futurism / AI content platform, currently just a blog. You can find its original launch here: https://lastfuturist.com/  (this website has been shut down). 

It combines breaking news, AI, and Op-eds on technology and the future into a coherent whole.

The Last Futurist 

Freelance Copywriter; Social media, Blogger, Ghostwriter, Content strategist, Inbound leads.

I create content every day to empower brands, drive leads and create social proof. 

I specialize in managing corporate LinkedIn accounts for brands, startups and media companies, to scale them faster. 

I'm a content marketer that works as a freelance copywriter, B2B marketer, blogger and ghostwriter. I excel at building corporate LinkedIn and Twitter pages for SMBs, startups, while providing blog content that's fresh, readable and of actionable value.  

I also do consulting for Brand development, Personal branding, Social media, B2B brand awareness and lead gen. I advise C-level executives as well on how to build a content strategy to boost their influence. 

With an avid interest in the new consumer and Millennials and consumer and retail trends: 

I think a lot about the future of technology and I'm implicated in fields such as Retail technology, FinTech, IoT, cloud POS, SaaS, unified commerce, omnichannel branding I write on Artificial intelligence and social trends as they relate to the future of work, business and digital branding. 

I have an on-going interest in Millennial marketing, Digital media, startup marketing, growth-hacking, creating quality content that's actionable, and networking with other freelancers, entrepreneurs and evangelists. I'm committed as well to social themes such as women in technology and the rising importance of Asia in the global information economy. 

With over 700 Pulse articles and 80k followers, I have an active history of being featured on Pulse channels such as Retail & Ecommerce, Social Media, Marketing & Advertising, Asia Pacific, VC & Private Equity, Banking & Finance and Millennials, among others. 

You can follow me to read my latest writing here: 

https://substack.com/profile/21731691-michael-spencer?utm_source=user-menu

Content Marketing & Copywriting

Self Employed

July 2015 to Sept, 2017. Resumed again October, 2019.

Newsletter Author and Technology Influencer - 2-time LinkedIn Top Voice 

Thirdshelf

In my daily life at Thirdshelf, I was implicated in a number of activities, such as: 
•	Copy-writing
•	Social media animation 
•	Community management 
•	Retail marketing influencing
•	Content editing 
•	Content automation writer 
•	Email marketing 
•	Content strategy 
•	Brand Development
•	Business Development
•	LinkedIn Pulse blogging

Content Manager

Intema Solutions Inc.

•	Copywriter & blogger (Digital Marketing)
•	Technical Support
•	QA & Testing
•	IT Documentation
•	User-Guide Creation & Maintenance
•	Video Tutorial Creation
•	Customer Service
•	User Administration 
•	Webinar Hosting
•	Trouble-Shooting
•	Educational Portal Creation & Maintenance
•	Market Research & IT trends analysis

Technical Support Specialist

Sanimax

Involved in Migration from XP to Windows 7 and Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2.

IT Internship - Sanimax 					Jan 2014 - April
	Pilot Windows 7 migration USMT
	Application compatibility testing XP to Windows 7
	Active Directory verification & profile editing
	Maintaining workshop laptops 
	Client and Application Inventory 
	Cisco study guide formulation

IT Technician Intern

Dr Shanon's Office

	Answered & screened medical calls
	Updated and created medical files 
	Retrieved relevant medical information in Municipal Health Databases
	Greeted patients and managed Dr's scheduled appointments and drop-ins
	Data entry, filing and medical records

Medical Secretary

Montreal Reproductive Center

IVF Coordinator

Indie Writer #1 Machine Learning Newsletter AiSupremacy | Tap the 🔔 on my profile

I am an emerging tech analyst that covers industries like AI, the semiconductor AI chip industry, robotics, quantum computing and others areas of exponential tech in Newsletter articles and in news curation as a service. 

I have built a new community for AI enthusiasts called AI Vanguard Society. Join link: https://ai-vanguard-society.mn.co/share/XU4Mw0F8pkyFXYRy?utm_source=manual

LinkedIn is not my main platform, for my full insights: see here: https://www.ai-supremacy.com/notes

My flagship AI Newsletter is read by over 160,000 readers as of May, 2025. 

 My A.I. newsletter AiSupremacy is rated #1 in Machine learning and is the fastest growing A.I. Newsletter on Substack, as of early 2022. 

I'm fascinated by all things artificial intelligence, innovation, business, content, automation and futurism. 

Named a LinkedIn Top Voice in 2016 | & 2017 Ranked #2 in Marketing and social, I'm an amateur futurist and indie influencer.

You can contact me at michaelkspencer 2025 at gmail dot com.

I unlock some of the best voices in AI in my publication that can be read here: https://www.ai-supremacy.com/

July 2015 to Sept, 2017. Resumed again October, 2019. 

You don't hear much about the affordability crisis on LinkedIn. Or even much about the tighter labor market. You'd think a professional platform would talk about the ground reality? But the reality that our young workers face doesn't sell Ads or promote the PR of BigTech companies. 

A platform that isn't in touch with GenZ. Meanwhile in reality, the unemployment rate for Americans between 20 and 24 just hit a ten-year high (excluding the pandemic). (see infographic below). 

Capitalism “isn’t working for young people,” the venture capitalist Peter Thiel told The Free Press this last week according to an Op-Ed by Derek Thompson. 

Scott Galloway seems to see himself as the spokesperson for this generation. He says he "believes young Americans are fed up with a country they’re raised to love but that doesn’t love them back." How true but how tragic? As an older generation holds on to power they are damaging the future, and it's not just a brutal labor market, the environment or national debt they are leaving the next generation. 

"Our spending priorities (entitlements), tax policies (capital gains and mortgage interest deductions), and fiscal priorities (bail-outs of incumbents) are the greatest transfer of wealth from young to old in history."

So why are Derek Thompson and Scott Galloway writing about this topic so much? Because demographics matters to how the future turns out. Are young people screwed in a world of AI, automation, workslop, inflation and wages that don't keep up with the cost of living? Where the average home buyer now skews 40 and the average young person plans on not getting married?

The unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-olds is 10.5% — the highest since the pandemic and, excluding that period, the highest since 2016. Zoomers (GenZ) report feeling more lonely, depressed, and anxious, and less successful, than other generations. Why aren't we talking about this?

We are raising young people to follow the K-shaped recovery down, down in opportunity. Down in the ability to thrive and maybe even to survive. Immigration is down and wealth inequality is rising, what could possibly go wrong? There's a hiring freeze and we are telling young people AI will take their jobs if they aren't "AI literate" (whatever that means). 

The average age of first-time buyers just hit 40, an all-series record, according to the National Association of REALTORS. Toxic politics and ideology has driven a gender divide among U.S. youth in many parts of the country. Young men seem to be adapting worse, many falling between the cracks. 

Americans expect the labor situation to get even worse. A lot of young people feel powerless in a world that is leaving them and their future behind. While Tech Oligarchs and Tycoons talk business as usual and the transformative power of AI. Ask a young person if this is remotely true. I find more wisdom about the future on 5 min of TikTok, than a week on LinkedIn. We need to become more honest with what's going on.

Founder, Newsletter operator, A.I. Writer, Emerging tech analyst.

KTMC AGENCY

Corridor Media

Co-Founder

CEO at KTMC AGENCY

With over 15 years of catalytic leadership at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and sustainable transformation, I have architected and accelerated value creation across complex organizational ecosystems. My work resides not merely in navigating business dynamics but in shaping them—aligning emergent technologies, financial stewardship, and human capital into cohesive engines of long-term competitiveness.

As CEO of KTMC AGENCY, I lead with a conviction that the most enduring enterprises are those that harmonize foresight with execution. I have consistently reimagined operational paradigms—integrating advanced digital infrastructures, redesigning workflow intelligence, and embedding agile governance systems that collectively unlock double-digit growth and structural resilience. These are not isolated wins, but expressions of a deeper commitment to systemic renewal.

My strategic ethos is grounded in synthesizing global macroeconomic insights with adaptive leadership—turning complexity into clarity, volatility into advantage. Whether through high-stakes crisis navigation or nuanced stakeholder engagement, I have cultivated trust-based ecosystems that transcend market pressures and anticipate transformation before it becomes imperative.

Innovation, to me, is not a function but a culture—a philosophy embedded in how we think, decide, and act. I have championed organizational metamorphosis by nurturing cross-sectoral collaborations, fostering open innovation, and advancing sustainability as a non-negotiable strategic axis. The results: competitive moats, elevated customer value, and ecosystems that lead rather than follow.

Financial acumen underpins this trajectory. I view cash flow not as a metric but as the lifeblood of strategic optionality. From optimizing capital efficiency to reengineering value chains, my approach aligns fiscal discipline with visionary ambition—where profit serves purpose and scale is a function of relevance.

In essence, I believe leadership today demands more than domain expertise; it calls for philosophical clarity, ethical conviction, and the courage to design futures worth inheriting. My legacy is not defined solely by outcomes, but by the quality of decisions made under uncertainty, the cultures built under pressure, and the futures unlocked through insight and action.

Kadir Tas

Artificial Intelligence 2025 – Japan: Law & Practice | prepared by Chambers and Partners

This guide offers a definitive overview of Japan’s AI legal and regulatory landscape, covering sector-specific applications, liability, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, and compliance. Its mission is to equip legal practitioners, corporate leaders, and policymakers with actionable insights to manage AI-related legal risks while fostering innovation.

Japan’s 2025 AI investments total JPY 196.9 billion, with the AI-Semiconductor Framework projecting up to JPY 10 trillion in public mobilization by 2030, including JPY 40 billion allocated this year for foundational AI R&D. Despite this scale, regulatory oversight remains fragmented across sector-specific laws, with soft-law guidance offering limited operational governance. This juxtaposition of substantial investment and regulatory gaps presents both a significant opportunity for early movers to capture efficiency and innovation gains and elevated exposure to compliance, intellectual property, and data-privacy risks.

From a risk–reward and financial-strategic perspective, organizations implementing AI under rigorous governance frameworks can achieve significantly higher “innovation capital ROI,” benefiting from accelerated R&D, first-mover advantages, enhanced operational efficiency, and improved scalability. Conversely, fragmented oversight and insufficient compliance mechanisms expose firms to systemic, reputational, and privacy risks. Effective governance thus becomes the critical determinant of return on equity (ROE) and long-term organizational resilience, ensuring that efficiency and innovation are realized without compromising legal, ethical, or systemic integrity.

In conclusion, Japan’s AI ecosystem stands at a decisive inflection point: unprecedented public investment and rapid technological adoption intersect with a fragmented regulatory framework. Strategic advantage — for corporations, regulators, and investors alike — will depend on embedding disciplined governance, robust compliance, and transparent oversight from the outset. Only by coupling aggressive innovation with legal clarity, operational resilience, and systemic safeguards can Japan fully unlock AI’s transformative potential, delivering sustainable economic, technological, and societal value while mitigating latent risks.

#AIRegulation #JapanAI2025 #InnovationROI 
#TechGovernance #DigitalLaw #ResponsibleAI 
#PublicInvestment #ComplianceRisk

Artificial Intelligence 2025 – Japan

AI Governance: A Framework for Responsible and Compliant Artificial Intelligence | prepared by Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak  

This report offers a rigorous, legally grounded framework for AI governance, articulating how organizations can operationalize compliance with the EU AI Act, ethical risk management, and accountability. Its mission is to equip corporate leaders, compliance officers, and policymakers with both high-level principles and practical tools for embedding responsible AI across their operations.

Compact findings identify four major risk categories: ethical/social (bias, transparency), operational (model misbehavior, hallucinations), reputational, and security/privacy (adversarial attacks, data leakage). The SK&S framework recommends a governance architecture built on four pillars: Transparency & Engagement, AI Literacy, Security & Robustness, and Human Oversight. Organizations that implement this architecture can reduce compliance and incident-management costs by 20–30%, and cut the frequency of high-risk model failures by up to 40% via continuous oversight.

Strategically, ROI from AI governance stems from reduced regulatory fines, improved operational continuity, and stronger stakeholder trust. SK&S projects that well-governed AI deployments can deliver ROE gains of 10–15%, while risk–reward modelling signals that neglecting transparency or oversight may erode up to 12% of efficiency gains. Crucially, resilience is strengthened: firms with modular governance structures and role clarity can rebound from reputational or ethical shocks 25–35% faster than peers with ad-hoc AI oversight.

In conclusion, AI governance is not a mere compliance exercise but a foundational lever to align innovation with societal trust and sustainable value creation. By embedding a robust governance architecture anchored in clarity, literacy, and oversight, organizations can secure measurable ROI, robust ROE, enhanced efficiency, and systemic resilience—ensuring that their AI remains both powerful and accountable.

#AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #Compliance #ROI #Resilience #EthicalAI #AIRegulation

AI Governance

Systemic Risks Series: Digital Risks – Cambridge Taxonomy of Digital Technology Risk | prepared by Cambridge Judge Business School

The University of Cambridge Judge Business School’s report presents a rigorous framework for identifying, classifying, and assessing digital technology risks across global economic and financial systems. Its mission is to provide policymakers, corporate executives, and risk managers with a structured taxonomy that quantifies systemic vulnerabilities arising from digital innovation, cyber dependencies, and algorithmic complexity. The study positions digital risk not merely as operational exposure but as a strategic determinant of resilience, efficiency, and long-term financial stability.

The analysis draws upon extensive case studies, cross-sector surveys, and network modeling of over 1,200 digital infrastructures and 450 multinational corporations. Key findings indicate that 68% of organizations experience moderate-to-high exposure to algorithmic failure, 54% to cybersecurity breaches, and 42% to data governance lapses. Interconnectivity amplifies systemic impact: critical supply-chain networks show 29% higher risk propagation than isolated systems, while adoption of emerging technologies such as AI and blockchain increases operational efficiency by 21–26% but introduces potential cascading failures. Risk concentration is notable in financial services, energy grids, and healthcare, where single-point failures could trigger multi-sector disruptions.

From a financial and strategic perspective, the report evaluates ROI, ROE, and resilience metrics associated with digital risk management. Organizations implementing proactive risk-mitigation protocols demonstrate ROI improvements of 4–7% and ROE gains of 5–8%, driven by enhanced operational continuity, reduced breach costs, and improved investor confidence. Risk-reward analysis underscores that unmitigated digital exposure can suppress enterprise value by up to 15%, whereas systematic adoption of explainable AI, robust cybersecurity frameworks, and data governance policies enhances systemic resilience by 33% and operational efficiency by 22–25%. The study emphasizes that aligning digital innovation with rigorous risk oversight is essential to preserve both financial and societal stability.

In summary, the Cambridge Taxonomy of Digital Technology Risk establishes a comprehensive lens through which organizations can measure, manage, and mitigate systemic digital threats. The framework demonstrates that strategically addressing digital vulnerabilities not only safeguards operational integrity but also amplifies ROI, ROE, efficiency, and resilience, positioning digital risk governance as a central pillar of sustainable value creation.

#DigitalRisk #SystemicRisk #CambridgeJudge 
#ROI #ROE #Efficiency #Resilience 
#Cybersecurity #AI #Blockchain #Governance

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