Leading in a World Where AI Wields Power of Its Own
New systems can learn autonomously and make complex judgments. Leaders need to understand these “autosapient” agents and how to work with them. by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
The wheel, the steam engine, the personal computer: Throughout history, technologies have been our tools. Whether used to create or destroy, they have always been under human control, behaving in predictable and rule-based ways. As we write, this assumption is unraveling. A new generation of AI systems are no longer merely our tools—they are becoming actors in and of themselves, participants in our lives, behaving autonomously, making consequential decisions, and shaping social and economic outcomes.
