Leadership in AI Era: Judgment, Ethics and Human Capability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Machines now process more than any person can read. What, then, is a leader for?Artificial intelligence has not made leadership obsolete. It has stripped away everything that was not leadership.Drawing on more than two decades of digital transformation across banking, retail, consulting and government,

Neeraj Tickoo argues that when a system absorbs routine work, it does not create surplus people. It creates the one thing organisations never have - the time of people who understand the work deeply.Most organisations respond by asking how many roles a system removes. Tickoo asks a better question: what could these people finally do, if we gave them back the time?

Leadership in AI is not a technical book, and it contains no maturity model. It is a book about judgment - why ethics begins upstream of the algorithm, in the room where somebody chose what to optimise. Why culture, not technology, decides what an organisation will attempt.

Why the human capable of being answerable becomes more valuable, not less, as machines improve.Grounded in Hume, Kant and Descartes, and in transformations the author led and sometimes got wrong, this is a book for anyone responsible for people, decisions and consequences in the age of AI