Leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence – AI
Notes by Barrie Oxtoby following a meeting organised by United Nations System Staff College, Turin, Italy on 5 Dec 2023.
The virtual event focussed on the nature of leadership in the face of the radical transformational change posed by the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Panelists:
- Lorri Sulpizio, Executive Director, Conscious Leadership Academy, University of San Diego
- Paolo Benanti, Professor, Ethics Technology, Digital Technology, & AI, Pontifical Gregorian Uni
- Aichatou Mindaoudou, former UN Special Representative in Cote d’Ivoire, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger,
- Pier Luigi Dal Pino, Senior Regional Director, Microsoft Western Europe.
Opening remarks: Earle Courtenay Rattray, Chef de Cabinet, United Nations Secretary General.
Moderator: Gabriele Segre, Director of the Vittorio Dan Segre Foundation
Host: Jafar Javan, Director, United System Staff College, Turin, Italy
Attendance: 5,600 people online
Main learning points arising
- The process should advance human capability. Safety and security are at the core.
- Artificial Intelligence is perfect for private and public sector collaboration.
- The opportunities AI offers Africa should be the continent with the most to gain.
- However, Africa has the most unstable internet connections of any continent.
- In Africa, civil servants spend 60% of their time reading and writing 0 with ASI, much less.
- With AI, leadership is about problems that don’t have a clear answer.
- AI is all about Adaptive Leadership – the act of mobilizing a group of individuals to handle tough challenges and emerge triumphant in the end.
- 4 core values of adaptive leadership are collaboration, openness, creative, transparency.
- Another definition – 4 values – emotional intelligence; organisational justice, development, & character.
- To be successful, leaders need to hear the voices of all the people.
- Leaders also need to slow down – we are human beings – not human doings!
- Leadership is all about raising difficult questions, not knowing all the answers.
- Leadership is a slow process, and it is important to build a consensus first.
- New leaders to overcome huge barriers. Forget ‘hard and soft skills’ Human skills are needed.
- Leaders – men are perceived as decisive/aggressive; women – loving/nurturing. Neither true.
- The Secretary General of the United Nations is committed to artificial intelligence.
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