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AI in Leadership: Tool or Trap?

15 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Ashish Kothari reflects on humanity's mixed record with transformative technologies, citing nuclear weapons and social media as past misuses. He argues AI presents an opportunity to augment human capacity—doing a substantial share (25–40%) of tasks—to free time, reduce busyness, and help people shift from "human doings" to "human beings," provided AI is used with consciousness and perspective to enhance rather than replace humans.

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There were two things that really made me reflect when it comes to technology. We humans have been amazing at inventing technology, but not necessarily using it to further the human race. Starting all the way from we split the atom and started the biggest cold war and have produced more nuclear weapons to destroy the earth hundreds if not thousands of times over rather than unbelievable source of energy. Same was the story with the social media, same is the story now with AI. And I think that's where I think there is a both an opportunity. I feel this technology that truly can do 25, 30, 40% right of what people do, which means can free up capacity, can either help us give people back a day so we can keep doing what we are doing, but at four days. And so we actually can reduce the level of busyness and allow people to go from human doings to human beings. That's where I think the work that you all are doing, the work that we are doing is so powerful because with the right level of consciousness, with the right level of perspective, I feel that there is an opportunity to use AI to become more human rather than replace more humans.