Welcome to SunDeep Talks, a leadership awakening
podcast. I am your host SunDeep Mehra and I hope
you all are doing great wherever you are from,
wherever you are listening to this. So as you
all know, this isn't just a content. This podcast
is a frequency. It's a breadth. It's a reorientation.
So our today's reflection as you can see from
the title though I am speaking but you can see
who leads when machines know everything isn't
the question worth noticing I mean it is I hope
you feel it too don't you a quiet shift is happening
we need all the noise AI this AI that productivity,
innovation, efficiency. Everyone's talking fast.
AI is like no matter what you do, say AI at least
once. When people are saying it, I mean like
a day -to -day, it has become a day -to -day
keyword in their life, in their every sentence.
Let's talk about AI. Let's say AI. Let's bring
AI to everything. Okay. But something inside
all of us knows to pause. I mean, at least for
those who are sincere enough, those who are aware
enough. Because while the world races to build
the smartest systems, there's a question no one
is pausing to ask. And what's that question?
The question is, what's being lost in the process?
Yes, exactly. We are told this is a progress.
We all know, you know, tech companies are doing
great. They are getting billions and billions
and trillions of dollar funding and every day
something new is happening, new is coming. But
is it progress? Really? Or is it a progress that
feels like a progress? but not a complete version
of progress not a true version of progress not
a fulfilling satisfying version of progress convincing
version of progress i would say we were told
that intelligence means algorithms that learn
faster this is new intelligence that we have
learned so far nowadays that predict more yet
the algorithms never allow you to do more. I
mean, do the real stuff more. That calculates
outcomes before humans even finish asking the
question. When you just write a few words, I
mean, it will interpret what needs to be shared.
That fast. Even before you complete what you
want to ask. And still, we are more disconnected,
more overwhelmed, more uncertain than ever. Why
why my dear friends why why my dear visionaries
my dear leaders why this is so Because we have
confused information with orientation And orientation
is in something AI can do at least not yet and
maybe never and maybe soon Because a lot is about
to come and a lot is about to happen leadership
I mean an authentic one or a true one what I
call as an awakened one doesn't come from knowing
more it comes from knowing where you stand knowing
our truth what you stand for and what you are
willing to see that no one else is naming. That's
the important question. I mean, stories that
didn't make it to the table. We must ask those
things. We have to ask those things. That's what
being a leader means. That's what being a responsible
citizen means. We must ask those questions that
need to be answered at the first place. I mean,
AI can process faster, but it doesn't feel weight.
It doesn't carry consequence. It doesn't pause
before deciding, but you can. I mean, who's stopping
you? And that changes everything. OK, take it
more slowly and let breathe. OK, you are in a
room, boardroom. war room crisis room it doesn't
matter okay that's I mean that that's something
you can imagine okay you can think of it like
that and there is a dashboard blowing in front
of you the models are clear the data is aligned
the system says this is the optimal choice but
your gut says Something's off. Something is really
off about it. Have you been there? I think if
you are someone who has taken decisions and really
seen these kind of situations, there might be
endless events and situations in your journey
where you might have felt this happens many times.
where your intuition disrupts the algorithm where
your humanity interrupts the logic that moment
that flicker is where leadership begins and I
would say awakened leadership begins not any
any methodological or framework based or situational
but awakened leadership begins because with every
important question there is something that leads
you to awakening it is where awaken leadership
and leadership begins not where it ends and yet
yet i would say we have built systems that are
teaching leaders to override that and you all
know that you all know that deeply you all know
that to trust the model to silence the inner
signal to follow the path of least resistance,
least more chaos, more problems, more frustration
but less of truth because it's been optimized
everything whole system is running around optimization
but optimization for what? this is the question
for speed for efficiency or for truth. As far
as awakened leadership is concerned and what
I do is concerned, what the truth is that truth
doesn't run on code, it runs on clarity. I mean,
clarity is always earned by listening, by living,
by experiencing by evolving by awakening by seeing
what's underneath the surface discerning truth
from illusion gaining the ability to see through
the illusion you know this already haven't you
yes you all know that the greatest leaders in
history weren't the ones with the most information
they were the ones I mean who saw differently?
They sensed what others ignored. They moved with
a rhythm that didn't come from metrics. Now we
are so familiar of and so obsessed with metrics.
Every time we have to quote something, we have
to say something, we have to come up with proofs,
come up with research, come up with stats, come
up with data and... Nobody knows the authenticity
of those data. Even the ones that are very authentic,
we have limited ourselves to that data. So, what
greatest leaders, you know, what they have done
is, and whatever they have done, it came from
alignment, from prisons. from inner vision. They
could, I mean they could sit in the storm and
not flinch. They could lead when the world couldn't
even name the problem. So here we are in an age
where machines know everything and what is about
to come, what we are about to witness in coming
12 months and a year and two. That will blow
your mind. Huge, huge change is happening. Huge
shift is coming. But who's leading? Who's truly
leading? Who's holding the threat of human orientation
while systems automates everything else? If I
say in my words, it is leadership is holding
a lot of hope too. We, I must say, there's a
lot of hope around it. Still there's a lot of
hope because so many amazing things are also
happening. We have to focus on good things, but
we cannot ignore the bad part. So, leadership
actually isn't not dying. It is just being, we
can say, outsourced. And I say this with urgency,
but not fear. If we don't reclaim the sovereignty
of decision -making, we will become executors
of instructions instead of stewards of vision.
Let me say it plainly, as plainly as possible,
AI is not the enemy. It is amazing, it is beautiful,
it is awesome. So where's the problem? Unconscious
leadership. is the problem the issue is in the
tool it's the lack of inner architecture to wield
that tool with integrity with responsibility
with awakened intelligence with human first approach
because when fragmented minds build intelligent
machines those machines become mirrors reflecting
back our incoherence you have seen it all and
you might be observing all those things if you
are a curious a visionary and a very aware individual
then you might have you you must have seen it
polarized platforms optimized propaganda truth
diluted for virality systems traded for speed
It's not the attack. It's the tone of leadership
behind the attack. Yes, it is time to ask yourself.
What are we preserving in humanity that can't
be replicated? Let me repeat it again. What are
we preserving in humanity that can't be replicated?
If we can't answer that we have no business.
regulating AI yes we have no business regulating
AI because we are protecting the form of our
species but not the essence we are just playing
around you can say we are we are just scratching
the surface and saying see what all is happening
We are protecting the form of our species, yes,
and not the essence. And essence is where real
leadership breathes. Let's reframe this now,
okay. Okay, let me reframe this for you a little
bit. If organizations, listen properly, if organizations
valued clarity as much as compliance, we would
see less confusion. more courage if boards trained
for discernment not just execution we would have
policies with soul not just spreadsheets if ai
companies were responsible for social consequence
not just legal escape routes we would have innovation
built on dignity and if nations awakened before
they negotiate they would lead not follow eventually
we are not behind we are at the threshold and
this threshold is not about speed yes this is
not about speed not about leading AI and calling
ourselves you know The race is going on and who
leads, who wins, who dominates, who create first,
who build better. It's about sovereignty. True
sovereignty, not borders, not markets, but soul
-based agency. The ability to act, not from manipulation,
not from hidden secrets, not from engineered
incentives. but from deep undisturbed undisturbed
yes undisturbed clarity that is the new frontier
of leadership my dear friends this is what this
era is demanding from us and let me leave you
with this the future will not be shaped by code
alone yes It will be shaped by the awakened consciousness
that quotes. I mean, we are the product of that
coding. We all are the product of that true coding.
Leadership is not about knowing faster. Never.
It is about seeing deeper. Listening what's coming
from inside. standing still when noise screams
louder and holding alignment when the world rushes
to automate every single thing automate this
automate this automate this schedule this do
this do that yes so this is your invitation this
is our responsibility this is the moment where
awakened leadership must rise thank you for listening
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