It is not a futuristic prediction. It is an already well committed shift: artificial intelligence no longer advises leaders, it exceeds them. The question is no longer “if”, but “when” the AI will take a decisive part in business governance. And above all: what will be the leadership of man?
For centuries, authority in the company has been based on an implicit postulate: leaders have known better than others. They have vision, analytical capacity, height. Today, this postulate shatters.
Modern artificial intelligences – generative models, expert systems, simulation engines – are already able to analyze billions of parameters in seconds, to assess risks better than the best analysts, and to propose more efficient strategic scenarios than number of executive committees.
This reality strikes the foundation of man’s power: cognitive superiority. And it directly challenges a large number of leaders.
Authority will not resist competence
When an AI offers a better decision than a decision maker, what do we do? We listen to him. We follow her. We comply with it. And that already happens: in algorithmic finance, in optimized logistics chains, in recruitment aid systems, in dynamic pricing programs. The leader becomes the final referee of a process of which he is no longer the architect.
Tomorrow, AI will not be an assistant. She will be a member of the board. Then a decision -making leader. Not because we wish, but because the company gains it – in efficiency, in consistency, at the speed of execution.
What will remain at the members of the Comex?
Faced with this rocking, man will only remain to man what AI cannot simulate. Two options are emerging:
- Resistdefend an inherited authority, refuse to delegate the decision – and lose in relevance, competitiveness, legitimacy.
- Adaptunderstand that the role of the leader will no longer be to have the best idea, but to guarantee a coherence sensitive to systems that will exceed man on the computational level.
In a world where intelligence becomes a convenience, the competitive advantage of man will therefore be elsewhere: in ethics, relationship capacity, real empathy, creation of confidence, …
The post-II company will be governed by intelligence. But what type of intelligence?
The real question is not whether the AI will make strategic decisions in the place of man because they will.
The question is which will define their objectivestheir principles, their limits. And on what criteria we will judge them: gross performance or contribution to the common good? Efficiency or relevance? Domination or cooperation?
The role of leadership will not disappear. It will change in nature. He will move from a power based on knowledge to a responsibility based on meaning.
