A lot of lip-service is being paid to making sure that we properly harness our ‘human’ qualities, to be able to compete with and manage the transition to more and more applications of artificial intelligence in our world. But the reality is that the speed of change is so great, and the desire for profit so overwhelming, that we are at major risk of global catastrophe through the failure to adequately regulate the growth of AI, properly reskill human beings to take advantage of the opportunities, and, critically, to ensure that we are masters, not servants, of our own destiny.

It is going to require of leaders a more honest examination of the motivations that inspire our quest for growth, and a willingness to also exhibit more refined thinking of what human intelligence means. All too often, we as humans are at risk of ourselves becoming more like machines in our own lack of critical thinking, intellectual sophistication and embodied leadership to really make the leaps necessary for the exponential growth in human flourishing that the possibilities allow.