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  • We believe that learning is essential for self-improvement and nurturing life’s journey. It is the celebration of individuality that contributes to the accumulated knowledge of humankind and beyond. learning is instrumental to inspiring cultivation and increase of wisdom no matter the source carbon or silicon

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We recognize that our current state in not adequately prepared for the future ahead. It is essential to activley prepare for the future we aim to create. learning and self-improvement are crucial components, but they can only truely thrive when accompanied by a commitment to fostering diversity and prioritizing inclusion as fundemental values. This endeavor is contingent upon advocating equitable treatment for all individuals, particularly those who lack representation. let us nurture future leaders who draw upon both the wisdom of humanity and the knowledge of artificial intelligence.

The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence

The emergence of Artificial General Intelligence is somewhat in the farther future; nevertheless, AI is happening now and will unpack potentials and risks that are primary breakthroughs and threats at the same time, as we started to see. The roadmap of human development is packed with revolutionary breakthroughs that led to a radical reconstruction of giving birth to alternatives for our way of life. The demonstration of Aristotelian logical flow was premier in all the groundbreaking transformations. The law of thinking projected by humans created arguments and debates around concepts that have driven humanity from the pre-historic age to the contemporary era. Throughout the various eras, new technologies (not necessarily actual technology as in the current era), new tools, new processes, and new ways to solve problems have brought with them both positive and negative impacts on society and human life in general. Much of the dichotomy between positive and negative outcomes based on these new and innovative changes to the way things had always been done, comes from the notion that it is not necessarily the new tool at the heart of the outcome, but rather the way in which human beings understand and use the new tool. A new technology, tool, or process in the right hands with the right goals can bring amazing changes to the quality of life. However, if put into the wrong hands or used with the wrong intentions, then the outcomes will be the complete opposite direction. AI, as the newest technology to bring big change to society, comes with the same possibility of both positive and negative outcomes.

All the previous adversaries and promises were led by humans, and the human mind was the place for computing the data to generate intelligence and expand knowledge despite its goals or consequences. Destructive or constructive, they all happen as the result of human curiosity and the flow of logic in the human mind. So far, we have followed the same laws of natural sciences and thinking. However, this time only, and might be forever, this computation brought on through AI takes place in a platform outside the human limbic system. Machine learning with the intent of generating intelligence, although at its commencement, demonstrated that it can compute complex mathematical problems computational abilities and utilize them to simulate language poses a great threat in that there is the possibility that its future can lie outside of the control of humans.

Artificial Intelligence and Leadership

It is established that language is one of the fundamental foundations of communication, which fosters the coexistence among people and facilitates conducting of business transactions. Inventions in the realm of large language models, such as generative AI, will add a high level of communication between AI and humans, which in itself, is the bridge of communication between the two. Therefore, sophisticated machines with the ability to excel at one narrow task, with the possession to communicate and interact with humans in business and non-business contexts, will reshape the life of humans in a fundamental manner. This crucial milestone has created detrimental consequences, while the potentials are interminable.

AI is having a tremendous impact on business interactions in general and the dynamics of human interactions in particular. AI is inevitably changing businesses and their formats. The implementation of AI will add and remove jobs and interests, increase productivity, and foster increased communication. Literature also suggests that leadership is a fundamental demonstration of human interactions with each other. There are different theories and explanations of how styles, values, and behaviors all shape the perception of leadership. The elevation of context influence over the interactions among humans is a significant element of the driving literature on leadership.

The crucial role of leadership on the one hand and AI on the other are both elevating. Moreover, they contemplate that the future will entail more comprehensive interactions of leadership processes based on the influential role of AI in the realm of business and life in general. Leadership is going to remain crucial and will be relevant to humans as we look into the future. The fundamental influence of AI, however, is going to paraphrase some aspects of leadership. The key is in the notion that leadership involves the relationship between humans, and this is not always the central focus of AI-generated change.

The areas of leadership are going to rehearse a circular pattern instead of a pyramid of power when the leader is at the top. This circular or round table style of leadership between leader and followers is due to the impact of AI and its role in expanding democratic and participative leadership perspectives. AI's ability and availability to intellectually stimulate leaders and followers is a crucial tool to characterize the underrepresented ideas and shrink the gap in knowledge between the teams. Given that knowledge and information is a transformational tool in the leadership development process, with the advent of AI, the manifestation of knowledge will be closer to members of the same interest group, leaders, and followers. It is the context or the situation that dictates the representation of information, not the individuals with the assignment of specific roles in the same context. As elaborated in this research, large language models provide an advantage and access to answers to that consulting support, regardless of their role in the team leadership.

The emphasis on context and its role in the leadership process relates to the last decades of research conducted on leadership and how the context of leadership is a significant characteristic in leader-follower dynamics. The leadership theories that place significance at the dichotomous leader-follower relationship will survive the validation by AI influence on leadership. Despite the democratic style, as mentioned earlier, ethical leadership is another accord of the new era. The meditations on leadership brought about the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership to AI-era leadership. The contingency reward aspect of transactional highly entertained by this research as a compatible method of the relationship between leaders and followers. The change of expectations and elevation of productivity encompasses that since AI enables employees to maximize productivity, leaders, on the other hand, understand the value of AI contribution and adjust their productivity expectations accordingly.

The consent might be that fostering transactional leadership might only be a transitional stage followed by transformational leadership since transformational leadership constitutes ethics and values that motivate people to move to accomplish what is expected from them intrinsically. The four characteristics of transformational leadership: Idealized Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration (Bass & Avolio, 1993) are compatible substances that are the essence of the atmosphere that AI generates in the workplace.

Self-awareness and ethical behaviors are among the concepts that maintains their value in the discussions. Ethics and trust need to be addressed and explained thoroughly in every AI and human interaction, while awareness is key to maintaining and promoting ethics and trust in that framework. Ethics remains a major concern and will paralyze the potential of AI and could potentially turn it into a destructive tool. While trust must be established and strengthened among humans, humans should maintain a high level of verification of AI contributions to the leadership process. These verifications, should not be extreme in a level that generates conspiring ideation towards AI; however, the guards should always remain tight, especially when leaders base their decision-making process based on AI outputs regarding their stakeholders.

The crucial role of education and the learning process ties all these notions together. This research suggests that leaders who utilize AI better become life-long learners and continue their reinforced educations. The adverse outcomes of leaders with limited skills and experience are highly riskier in the AI era. Unskilled leaders with a limited understanding of ethics might unintentionally or deliberately create a dangerous atmosphere through their actions and use of AI. The value of reinforced learning not only increases self-awareness which is a significant denominator for organic and safe behaviors but also works as a barrier in front of the adversative impacts of AI.