Future of Leadership in the Age of AI

From the Back Cover:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reality. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, or a Robot Apocalypse depending on whom you ask, is already underway. The transition has already started. But what it means in terms of leadership? How should leaders prepare for the dramatic shifts in the global workforce?

The authors, emerging technology risk researchers and practitioners, demystify the processes behind this revolution. Rather than offering another sensationalistic, panic-inducing view on AI – or its overly-optimistic alternative – the authors explain the reality of AI implementation in business environments.

The transformed economy will need a new kind of executives – motivators, innovators and social experimenters – those that have, paradoxically, developed their distinctly human skills. The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI clarifies those new roles and makes the transition easier.

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Co-author:

Luka Ivezic is an independent consultant and author exploring geopolitical and socioeconomic implications of emerging technologies such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT).

He has been exploring these topics, studying and writing about them for the last five years. To better observe policy discussions and various societal attitudes and impacts of early implementations, he lives between US, UK, Denmark, Singapore, Japan and Canada. This has given him a unique perspective on how emerging technologies shape different societies, and how different cultures determine technological development.

A NOTE ON OUR 2014 BOOK

We wrote this book in 2014 and 2015, just after the debut of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and long before the rise of powerful transformer-based models and applications like ChatGPT. Although the core ideas and guidance on preparing for an AI-driven future remain useful, the predictions on how quickly these technologies would evolve have been overshadowed by today’s rapid breakthroughs. If you’re curious about the early thinking on AI and want a snapshot of how the conversation began, feel free to download a free copy from here [PDF] or purchase the ebook or paperback from these retailers. Otherwise, please be aware that parts of the book are now out of date.

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