WEBVTT 00:00:12.970 --> 00:00:19.010 You know, every day I open my feed and there 00:00:19.010 --> 00:00:23.129 it is again. Another AI tool, another course, 00:00:24.210 --> 00:00:28.710 another so -called breakthrough. The code gets 00:00:28.710 --> 00:00:33.869 smarter, faster, sharper. It's rewriting workflows, 00:00:34.609 --> 00:00:39.170 reshaping industries and whether we notice it 00:00:39.170 --> 00:00:45.100 or not. Resetting the pace of human time this 00:00:45.100 --> 00:00:49.939 is happening right now in every moment that we 00:00:49.939 --> 00:00:55.240 are breathing here but here's the thing no one 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:02.100 wants to say out loud or even silently human 00:01:02.100 --> 00:01:09.599 understanding human evolution is not evolving 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:14.659 at the same speed I'm not talking about just 00:01:14.659 --> 00:01:19.680 in policy, not just in governance or our institutions. 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:27.159 I'm talking about not even in meaning. In every 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:31.319 aspect human speed of understanding, evolving, 00:01:31.780 --> 00:01:36.799 perceiving, discerning, I mean every level it 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:43.700 is way behind the speed with which AI is moving 00:01:43.700 --> 00:01:49.200 ahead, technology is moving ahead. While algorithms 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.439 are sprinting forward like rockets, I would say, 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:56.459 human systems at the same place are drifting, 00:01:59.620 --> 00:02:01.719 sometimes even rolling backward, I would say. 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:08.280 And in that quite reversal, We are losing something 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:11.759 far more dangerous than productivity or any GDP. 00:02:13.620 --> 00:02:17.539 We are losing the very essence of being human. 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:22.280 Our dignity, our clarity, our wisdom and our 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:27.500 presence at the same time. And I am not saying 00:02:27.500 --> 00:02:30.900 this as a warning for the future. This is already 00:02:30.900 --> 00:02:35.449 happening. the speed you and I can't even imagine 00:02:35.449 --> 00:02:41.389 or measure with any tool or technology. And if 00:02:41.389 --> 00:02:45.270 you are in this position of power, or any position 00:02:45.270 --> 00:02:49.250 in the power, anywhere in the world, maybe you 00:02:49.250 --> 00:02:56.669 are a minister, maybe you are in cabinets, maybe 00:02:56.669 --> 00:03:00.650 you are a policy makers, a board chair, a CEO, 00:03:01.050 --> 00:03:06.300 advisor. the founder, entrepreneur or even an 00:03:06.300 --> 00:03:08.419 individual who is playing their part wherever 00:03:08.419 --> 00:03:11.139 they are and trying to do something or who holds 00:03:11.139 --> 00:03:15.180 some authority to make even a ounce of difference 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:21.960 this moment concerns you because if we don't 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:26.599 correct the trajectory now by trajectory I mean 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.319 look most of the things are already out of control 00:03:29.319 --> 00:03:36.669 and The level of derailed effect, I would say, 00:03:36.949 --> 00:03:42.430 is going to be so devastating and so transformative 00:03:42.430 --> 00:03:45.810 at the same time. Undeniably true. Both facts 00:03:45.810 --> 00:03:56.240 are moving ahead parallelly. If we don't correct 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.960 the trajectory now of our understanding, of our 00:03:59.960 --> 00:04:06.460 evolution, of our ability to govern, to blend 00:04:06.460 --> 00:04:11.280 ourselves between technology and our lives, it 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.020 won't just be a gap between machines and humans 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:19.899 anymore. It will be like two rockets heading 00:04:19.899 --> 00:04:24.519 towards completely different destinies. One will 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:28.360 colonize the future, the other will never leave 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:36.660 the ground. What I mean when I say soul in governance, 00:04:39.860 --> 00:04:43.459 I often use this and I have to use this nowadays 00:04:43.459 --> 00:04:48.339 quite often. When I speak, I mean when I have 00:04:48.339 --> 00:04:55.050 to speak about soul in AI governance, or awakened 00:04:55.050 --> 00:05:01.110 AI governance, awakened AI, I'm not talking about 00:05:01.110 --> 00:05:05.430 something mystical. I'm talking about keeping 00:05:05.430 --> 00:05:09.529 humanity, human values, human first consideration 00:05:09.529 --> 00:05:18.529 at the centre. It's remembering that everything 00:05:18.529 --> 00:05:24.009 that makes us human is... need to be, I mean 00:05:24.009 --> 00:05:26.230 this need to be the center of every governance 00:05:26.230 --> 00:05:29.170 around AI and ethics around AI, implementations, 00:05:29.629 --> 00:05:33.149 planning, strategies, deployment, applicability. 00:05:33.670 --> 00:05:36.209 Everything should be governed through human first 00:05:36.209 --> 00:05:40.290 perspectives. What we have learned, what we have 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:43.149 lost, what we have dreamed of and what we have 00:05:43.149 --> 00:05:48.870 feared as a civilization and the future of this 00:05:48.870 --> 00:05:54.759 civilization. It's asking, what do people truly 00:05:54.759 --> 00:06:02.139 need? Not just now. No. But at the deepest level 00:06:02.139 --> 00:06:08.899 of their dignity and future. Soul in governance 00:06:08.899 --> 00:06:13.579 means policies are not just checklists. They're 00:06:13.579 --> 00:06:20.180 not reading from a paper and giving a talk. from 00:06:20.180 --> 00:06:25.819 a conference and telling how we are moving ahead. 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:30.540 No, it's not about that. But living commitments 00:06:30.540 --> 00:06:35.180 to protect the human being behind the data, the 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:38.439 facts, the plannings. And if we sideline this 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:41.360 principle, if we treat soul as a soft add -on, 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:45.420 the very technologies we've built will harm us 00:06:45.420 --> 00:06:50.379 only. We will become the ultimate victims. pray 00:06:50.379 --> 00:06:55.779 for them not because they malfunction or they 00:06:55.779 --> 00:06:57.660 will start doing things from themselves which 00:06:57.660 --> 00:07:03.879 is highly expected yes things are going to that 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.240 I mean we don't know when things will start going 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:14.379 south and I'm not saying because they will start 00:07:14.379 --> 00:07:16.639 malfunctioning but because they will operate 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:21.439 perfectly in the wrong direction if we don't 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:27.600 get this thing correct in our inner curriculum 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:32.480 in our inner design making it the priority not 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:40.920 the other way around and if we have to see some 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:46.560 quite signals of collapse so I would say Collapse 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:51.699 really start with an explosion those days are 00:07:51.699 --> 00:07:56.740 you know Part of movie thing or something like 00:07:56.740 --> 00:08:01.000 that, but in reality Not every collapse starts 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:08.500 with an explosion We often or we can say more 00:08:08.500 --> 00:08:14.779 often We see these things and the collapses the 00:08:14.779 --> 00:08:19.680 explosions It starts with silence. You are living 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.560 your life and you never know what's past beneath 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:28.100 your legs, what shakes the ground, what is happening 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:31.939 silently, what is coming to us, what is about 00:08:31.939 --> 00:08:34.960 to happen about millions of things that we were 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:43.960 not even ready to understand or know. preparing 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.679 or prepared to have any idea about them. It's 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.620 when deep fakes is spread and checked, when truth 00:08:51.620 --> 00:08:57.360 becomes fluid, when citizens calls that they 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.000 need help but they don't know what help they 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:04.419 need, when citizens can't tell what's real or 00:09:04.419 --> 00:09:11.429 artificial and no one in charge steps in. because 00:09:11.429 --> 00:09:14.070 governance without soul doesn't ask who will 00:09:14.070 --> 00:09:19.509 be harmed it asks how fast can we ship this we 00:09:19.509 --> 00:09:22.669 need to come we need to sit at the top of doing 00:09:22.669 --> 00:09:27.049 this implementing this this you know whatever 00:09:27.049 --> 00:09:33.210 it takes and the funny part is people people 00:09:33.210 --> 00:09:38.789 people you know like people cheese these things 00:09:38.789 --> 00:09:45.139 like wow like wow because they have their own 00:09:45.139 --> 00:09:51.419 self -interest to stick around like bees never 00:09:51.419 --> 00:09:53.559 thinking never questioning anything what's on 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.519 the other side that's the sign of the biggest 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:02.299 sign of collapse and a sign of I mean significantly 00:10:02.299 --> 00:10:06.679 unawakened society We stop questioning, we stop 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.120 thinking, we stop exercising the very abilities 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.500 that makes us human. You see it in the digital 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:15.940 sector where content is optimized for engagement, 00:10:16.620 --> 00:10:20.440 doesn't bother about any truth, any originality. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.740 You see it in education where speed replaces 00:10:23.740 --> 00:10:26.100 depth. Nobody knows where we are heading, what 00:10:26.100 --> 00:10:29.320 future we are building, what courses, what careers 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.039 we are building, what education it need, what 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.250 kind of development required. how we can adapt 00:10:35.250 --> 00:10:37.610 because if they will adapt system is already 00:10:37.610 --> 00:10:40.750 collapsing it will collapse in a moment because 00:10:40.750 --> 00:10:44.009 they start acting like courageous and awakened 00:10:44.009 --> 00:10:48.370 I mean it will bring a tower moment in their 00:10:48.370 --> 00:10:54.789 lives but that need courage that need a will 00:10:54.789 --> 00:11:00.370 that need a vision that need an awakening and 00:11:00.370 --> 00:11:04.059 we accept it all of this Because the system still 00:11:04.059 --> 00:11:07.500 this I mean the systems are still working somehow 00:11:07.500 --> 00:11:11.059 some way and Until it doesn't collapse completely 00:11:11.059 --> 00:11:14.379 and we left us with no choice Why it bothers 00:11:14.379 --> 00:11:20.419 us? Why the hell we get bothered by that? By 00:11:20.419 --> 00:11:23.519 the time we notice that soul is gone. It's already 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:30.320 too late What I call human centered AI governance 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.909 in practicality how it feels like in practice 00:11:33.909 --> 00:11:39.110 so when i say awakened human centered AI governance 00:11:39.110 --> 00:11:47.149 as it has no universal checklist for this not 00:11:47.149 --> 00:11:50.370 a fixed one it has a good one but not a fixed 00:11:50.370 --> 00:11:56.789 one because i think governance with soul is not 00:11:56.789 --> 00:12:04.139 a framework it's a practice of embodying It starts 00:12:04.139 --> 00:12:08.320 with asking the hard questions, always. And I 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:12.220 have realized, and I tell people during events 00:12:12.220 --> 00:12:16.500 and every time, whenever someone asks me, I say 00:12:16.500 --> 00:12:20.279 most of the time, keep yourself away from people, 00:12:20.279 --> 00:12:23.899 those who try to motivate you, those who try 00:12:23.899 --> 00:12:26.940 to say just good things to you. They are never 00:12:26.940 --> 00:12:29.299 your well -wishers. And that industry is gone, 00:12:29.700 --> 00:12:32.759 diminishing. Day by day, that will also. that 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.580 industry was shut down. Motivation in industry 00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:40.399 is the industry that you don't need anymore, 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:44.320 I would say, unfortunately. You need an awakening. 00:12:45.779 --> 00:12:48.600 Awakening is your new journey, where you are 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:53.299 not afraid of, maybe afraid or not, but you need 00:12:53.299 --> 00:12:56.759 to be prepared for truth. It's better to hear 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.190 important things rather than fancy things. Because 00:13:01.190 --> 00:13:03.389 that's what makes us human who care about each 00:13:03.389 --> 00:13:06.769 other. It's the sense of responsibility and care 00:13:06.769 --> 00:13:09.850 we have for each other. That makes us human. 00:13:10.110 --> 00:13:12.769 Motivation is something that is like a soda bottle. 00:13:14.169 --> 00:13:16.389 A speech is given, you heard, you clapped and 00:13:16.389 --> 00:13:20.149 you go back to your home. One day you acted like 00:13:20.149 --> 00:13:24.809 you are the only truth and the next day you're 00:13:24.809 --> 00:13:32.129 falling like never before. is needed. We need 00:13:32.129 --> 00:13:36.110 mirrors. We need true reflections of our existence. 00:13:36.250 --> 00:13:39.429 We need awakening. We need to awaken the leader 00:13:39.429 --> 00:13:42.610 that we have. We need to understand we are the 00:13:42.610 --> 00:13:45.730 finest creation for a reason. We have to awaken 00:13:45.730 --> 00:13:48.990 that ability. And it starts with asking the hard 00:13:48.990 --> 00:13:52.809 question I already said. Why is this system being 00:13:52.809 --> 00:13:57.889 deployed? Who does it actually serve? What human 00:13:57.889 --> 00:14:04.120 values does it protect or erode? It's about reversibility 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:07.240 also. Can we pause or shut it down when harm 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.679 appears? Do we have that courage, the guts, that 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:15.440 strategy, that planning on place? It's about 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:19.419 execution, our decision being paused for reflection 00:14:19.419 --> 00:14:25.080 or pushed forward for competition. And here's 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:29.019 the most important truth, I would say. Ethics, 00:14:29.419 --> 00:14:32.000 ethics is... not a technical responsibility. 00:14:32.299 --> 00:14:36.779 No, don't put them and put everything into technicalities. 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:40.600 It's not about job of compliance teams or risk 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:46.899 officers alone. It starts at the top. Ministers, 00:14:47.100 --> 00:14:50.700 CEOs, founders, decision makers. You set the 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:54.700 tone, you carry the soul of the system. If leadership 00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:59.389 disowns that role, no framework will save. No 00:14:59.389 --> 00:15:07.389 framework will save it. What gives me hope and 00:15:07.389 --> 00:15:11.850 what gives me the purpose is the rhythm of staying 00:15:11.850 --> 00:15:19.649 human. If I truly say what is going to be the 00:15:19.649 --> 00:15:25.769 future of this civilization, I would say it's 00:15:25.769 --> 00:15:33.309 not the technology. I would also not consider 00:15:33.309 --> 00:15:38.950 anything else but instead how we can become and 00:15:38.950 --> 00:15:43.549 stay more human. That's the future. Humanness 00:15:43.549 --> 00:15:45.570 is the future now because you can't complete 00:15:45.570 --> 00:15:50.029 machine. You can't out, I mean, outrun them. 00:15:50.250 --> 00:15:55.169 You can't beat them in any sense. And what is 00:15:55.169 --> 00:16:01.759 about to come is going to definitely... I mean, 00:16:02.220 --> 00:16:06.340 it's not a very easy thing that we are about 00:16:06.340 --> 00:16:09.820 to see from now onwards with each passing month 00:16:09.820 --> 00:16:15.120 or week. So human, being more humane, humanness 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.919 is the future because it is what we are and that 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.659 is the only thing we have forgotten. Only thing, 00:16:22.820 --> 00:16:25.299 whatever we have forgotten is going to be the 00:16:25.299 --> 00:16:29.360 future. Mark my words. Whatever we have forgotten 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:34.379 as being human is going to be the future. If 00:16:34.379 --> 00:16:37.240 you are on that train, if you are on that plane, 00:16:37.379 --> 00:16:41.019 if you are on that trip, on that journey, on 00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:44.679 that route, you are going to make it better than 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:49.600 most. And if you are derailed out of that, you 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:55.279 are chasing the direction otherwise. I have no, 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.620 I have no, I have nothing. or no such thing to 00:16:58.620 --> 00:17:04.700 say about that, that time will tell. So, when 00:17:04.700 --> 00:17:08.500 I say awakened governance is not a one -time 00:17:08.500 --> 00:17:13.640 policy, I would say it's a rhythm, a breath -like, 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.400 we can imagine a type of a breath. It means making 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:24.440 space regularly for honest, no -title, no -pretence 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:29.049 conversations. inside leadership rooms, not about 00:17:29.049 --> 00:17:32.930 KPIs, not about investor pressure, but about 00:17:32.930 --> 00:17:37.990 how it feels to be building what you are building. 00:17:39.509 --> 00:17:45.289 Yes, listen it again. How it feels to be building 00:17:45.289 --> 00:17:50.170 what you are building. Would you want to live 00:17:50.170 --> 00:17:55.009 inside a system you have just approved? 50 years 00:17:55.009 --> 00:18:03.930 from now. Would you want your children to? These 00:18:03.930 --> 00:18:11.170 generations are not spiritual retreats. And these 00:18:11.170 --> 00:18:15.269 gatherings are not spiritual retreats. They are 00:18:15.269 --> 00:18:21.230 survival rituals. Without them, governance becomes 00:18:21.230 --> 00:18:25.839 mechanical. and mechanical governance collapse 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.819 under its own blindness every single goddamn 00:18:29.819 --> 00:18:37.940 time I would say the matrix that really matters 00:18:37.940 --> 00:18:44.000 I mean if we want to measure alignment we can't 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.420 just track speed and scale that's not the only 00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:51.000 parameter we need to track reversibility speed 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:56.930 how fast we can halt a harmful system if it goes 00:18:56.930 --> 00:19:02.690 south. We need to track for all certainty how 00:19:02.690 --> 00:19:06.809 often we over trust a confident system that's 00:19:06.809 --> 00:19:13.269 wrong. We need to measure perception gaps, what 00:19:13.269 --> 00:19:17.509 leadership thinks a system is doing versus what 00:19:17.509 --> 00:19:22.380 it's actually doing. And all that needs to be 00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:26.319 done timely and regularly. And then we don't 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:31.339 just file those metrics away. We act on them 00:19:31.339 --> 00:19:37.759 immediately. The choice is now in front of us, 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:41.579 all of us. And this isn't innovation versus ethics 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:46.440 at all. It's presence versus performance. If 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:48.799 we lead with soul, the system will carry it, 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.750 definitely. If we don't, they won't, undoubtedly. 00:19:55.069 --> 00:19:59.730 An awakened AI governance that I call is never 00:19:59.730 --> 00:20:04.950 about slowing down. It's about synchronizing 00:20:04.950 --> 00:20:08.269 with the right pace, moving with the right energies, 00:20:09.130 --> 00:20:13.990 right alignments. It's about waking up. Because 00:20:13.990 --> 00:20:15.990 this might be the last moment in history when 00:20:15.990 --> 00:20:18.230 leadership can still choose to remain human. 00:20:18.289 --> 00:20:26.410 I'm telling you. and if this reflection states 00:20:26.410 --> 00:20:33.650 something in you good not anything but good and 00:20:33.650 --> 00:20:39.750 real that's the point that's the only point I 00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:43.230 want to convey because the more human we remain 00:20:43.230 --> 00:20:46.950 in our decisions today the more human our future 00:20:46.950 --> 00:20:51.799 will be technology is a beautiful blessing the 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:54.180 most amazing thing that can happen to humans 00:20:54.180 --> 00:20:58.160 but not at the cost of forgetting what makes 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:06.779 us human and that for me at least for me and 00:21:06.779 --> 00:21:10.059 I hope for you all and for the whole humanity 00:21:10.059 --> 00:21:14.460 this planet earth is the only means of