You know, every day I open my feed and there
it is again. Another AI tool, another course,
another so -called breakthrough. The code gets
smarter, faster, sharper. It's rewriting workflows,
reshaping industries and whether we notice it
or not. Resetting the pace of human time this
is happening right now in every moment that we
are breathing here but here's the thing no one
wants to say out loud or even silently human
understanding human evolution is not evolving
at the same speed I'm not talking about just
in policy, not just in governance or our institutions.
I'm talking about not even in meaning. In every
aspect human speed of understanding, evolving,
perceiving, discerning, I mean every level it
is way behind the speed with which AI is moving
ahead, technology is moving ahead. While algorithms
are sprinting forward like rockets, I would say,
human systems at the same place are drifting,
sometimes even rolling backward, I would say.
And in that quite reversal, We are losing something
far more dangerous than productivity or any GDP.
We are losing the very essence of being human.
Our dignity, our clarity, our wisdom and our
presence at the same time. And I am not saying
this as a warning for the future. This is already
happening. the speed you and I can't even imagine
or measure with any tool or technology. And if
you are in this position of power, or any position
in the power, anywhere in the world, maybe you
are a minister, maybe you are in cabinets, maybe
you are a policy makers, a board chair, a CEO,
advisor. the founder, entrepreneur or even an
individual who is playing their part wherever
they are and trying to do something or who holds
some authority to make even a ounce of difference
this moment concerns you because if we don't
correct the trajectory now by trajectory I mean
look most of the things are already out of control
and The level of derailed effect, I would say,
is going to be so devastating and so transformative
at the same time. Undeniably true. Both facts
are moving ahead parallelly. If we don't correct
the trajectory now of our understanding, of our
evolution, of our ability to govern, to blend
ourselves between technology and our lives, it
won't just be a gap between machines and humans
anymore. It will be like two rockets heading
towards completely different destinies. One will
colonize the future, the other will never leave
the ground. What I mean when I say soul in governance,
I often use this and I have to use this nowadays
quite often. When I speak, I mean when I have
to speak about soul in AI governance, or awakened
AI governance, awakened AI, I'm not talking about
something mystical. I'm talking about keeping
humanity, human values, human first consideration
at the centre. It's remembering that everything
that makes us human is... need to be, I mean
this need to be the center of every governance
around AI and ethics around AI, implementations,
planning, strategies, deployment, applicability.
Everything should be governed through human first
perspectives. What we have learned, what we have
lost, what we have dreamed of and what we have
feared as a civilization and the future of this
civilization. It's asking, what do people truly
need? Not just now. No. But at the deepest level
of their dignity and future. Soul in governance
means policies are not just checklists. They're
not reading from a paper and giving a talk. from
a conference and telling how we are moving ahead.
No, it's not about that. But living commitments
to protect the human being behind the data, the
facts, the plannings. And if we sideline this
principle, if we treat soul as a soft add -on,
the very technologies we've built will harm us
only. We will become the ultimate victims. pray
for them not because they malfunction or they
will start doing things from themselves which
is highly expected yes things are going to that
I mean we don't know when things will start going
south and I'm not saying because they will start
malfunctioning but because they will operate
perfectly in the wrong direction if we don't
get this thing correct in our inner curriculum
in our inner design making it the priority not
the other way around and if we have to see some
quite signals of collapse so I would say Collapse
really start with an explosion those days are
you know Part of movie thing or something like
that, but in reality Not every collapse starts
with an explosion We often or we can say more
often We see these things and the collapses the
explosions It starts with silence. You are living
your life and you never know what's past beneath
your legs, what shakes the ground, what is happening
silently, what is coming to us, what is about
to happen about millions of things that we were
not even ready to understand or know. preparing
or prepared to have any idea about them. It's
when deep fakes is spread and checked, when truth
becomes fluid, when citizens calls that they
need help but they don't know what help they
need, when citizens can't tell what's real or
artificial and no one in charge steps in. because
governance without soul doesn't ask who will
be harmed it asks how fast can we ship this we
need to come we need to sit at the top of doing
this implementing this this you know whatever
it takes and the funny part is people people
people you know like people cheese these things
like wow like wow because they have their own
self -interest to stick around like bees never
thinking never questioning anything what's on
the other side that's the sign of the biggest
sign of collapse and a sign of I mean significantly
unawakened society We stop questioning, we stop
thinking, we stop exercising the very abilities
that makes us human. You see it in the digital
sector where content is optimized for engagement,
doesn't bother about any truth, any originality.
You see it in education where speed replaces
depth. Nobody knows where we are heading, what
future we are building, what courses, what careers
we are building, what education it need, what
kind of development required. how we can adapt
because if they will adapt system is already
collapsing it will collapse in a moment because
they start acting like courageous and awakened
I mean it will bring a tower moment in their
lives but that need courage that need a will
that need a vision that need an awakening and
we accept it all of this Because the system still
this I mean the systems are still working somehow
some way and Until it doesn't collapse completely
and we left us with no choice Why it bothers
us? Why the hell we get bothered by that? By
the time we notice that soul is gone. It's already
too late What I call human centered AI governance
in practicality how it feels like in practice
so when i say awakened human centered AI governance
as it has no universal checklist for this not
a fixed one it has a good one but not a fixed
one because i think governance with soul is not
a framework it's a practice of embodying It starts
with asking the hard questions, always. And I
have realized, and I tell people during events
and every time, whenever someone asks me, I say
most of the time, keep yourself away from people,
those who try to motivate you, those who try
to say just good things to you. They are never
your well -wishers. And that industry is gone,
diminishing. Day by day, that will also. that
industry was shut down. Motivation in industry
is the industry that you don't need anymore,
I would say, unfortunately. You need an awakening.
Awakening is your new journey, where you are
not afraid of, maybe afraid or not, but you need
to be prepared for truth. It's better to hear
important things rather than fancy things. Because
that's what makes us human who care about each
other. It's the sense of responsibility and care
we have for each other. That makes us human.
Motivation is something that is like a soda bottle.
A speech is given, you heard, you clapped and
you go back to your home. One day you acted like
you are the only truth and the next day you're
falling like never before. is needed. We need
mirrors. We need true reflections of our existence.
We need awakening. We need to awaken the leader
that we have. We need to understand we are the
finest creation for a reason. We have to awaken
that ability. And it starts with asking the hard
question I already said. Why is this system being
deployed? Who does it actually serve? What human
values does it protect or erode? It's about reversibility
also. Can we pause or shut it down when harm
appears? Do we have that courage, the guts, that
strategy, that planning on place? It's about
execution, our decision being paused for reflection
or pushed forward for competition. And here's
the most important truth, I would say. Ethics,
ethics is... not a technical responsibility.
No, don't put them and put everything into technicalities.
It's not about job of compliance teams or risk
officers alone. It starts at the top. Ministers,
CEOs, founders, decision makers. You set the
tone, you carry the soul of the system. If leadership
disowns that role, no framework will save. No
framework will save it. What gives me hope and
what gives me the purpose is the rhythm of staying
human. If I truly say what is going to be the
future of this civilization, I would say it's
not the technology. I would also not consider
anything else but instead how we can become and
stay more human. That's the future. Humanness
is the future now because you can't complete
machine. You can't out, I mean, outrun them.
You can't beat them in any sense. And what is
about to come is going to definitely... I mean,
it's not a very easy thing that we are about
to see from now onwards with each passing month
or week. So human, being more humane, humanness
is the future because it is what we are and that
is the only thing we have forgotten. Only thing,
whatever we have forgotten is going to be the
future. Mark my words. Whatever we have forgotten
as being human is going to be the future. If
you are on that train, if you are on that plane,
if you are on that trip, on that journey, on
that route, you are going to make it better than
most. And if you are derailed out of that, you
are chasing the direction otherwise. I have no,
I have no, I have nothing. or no such thing to
say about that, that time will tell. So, when
I say awakened governance is not a one -time
policy, I would say it's a rhythm, a breath -like,
we can imagine a type of a breath. It means making
space regularly for honest, no -title, no -pretence
conversations. inside leadership rooms, not about
KPIs, not about investor pressure, but about
how it feels to be building what you are building.
Yes, listen it again. How it feels to be building
what you are building. Would you want to live
inside a system you have just approved? 50 years
from now. Would you want your children to? These
generations are not spiritual retreats. And these
gatherings are not spiritual retreats. They are
survival rituals. Without them, governance becomes
mechanical. and mechanical governance collapse
under its own blindness every single goddamn
time I would say the matrix that really matters
I mean if we want to measure alignment we can't
just track speed and scale that's not the only
parameter we need to track reversibility speed
how fast we can halt a harmful system if it goes
south. We need to track for all certainty how
often we over trust a confident system that's
wrong. We need to measure perception gaps, what
leadership thinks a system is doing versus what
it's actually doing. And all that needs to be
done timely and regularly. And then we don't
just file those metrics away. We act on them
immediately. The choice is now in front of us,
all of us. And this isn't innovation versus ethics
at all. It's presence versus performance. If
we lead with soul, the system will carry it,
definitely. If we don't, they won't, undoubtedly.
An awakened AI governance that I call is never
about slowing down. It's about synchronizing
with the right pace, moving with the right energies,
right alignments. It's about waking up. Because
this might be the last moment in history when
leadership can still choose to remain human.
I'm telling you. and if this reflection states
something in you good not anything but good and
real that's the point that's the only point I
want to convey because the more human we remain
in our decisions today the more human our future
will be technology is a beautiful blessing the
most amazing thing that can happen to humans
but not at the cost of forgetting what makes
us human and that for me at least for me and
I hope for you all and for the whole humanity
this planet earth is the only means of