Finally, we have “Aliens” on our planet and in organizations. They are called AI
After decades of failed searches for Alien Minds, we finally have them. They are called Artificial Intelligence.
Think of AI as an ALIEN from another planet who has studied your culture extensively. This alien can quote Shakespeare, recite market statistics, and even offer strategic advice—but it has never livedthrough a boardroom crisis, watched a product fail, or felt the stress of firing someone. To an executive, it speaks fluently, but its understanding is fundamentally different.
Another analogy: consider a child learning physics by memorizing equations versus a child who throws rocks in the yard to understand trajectory. The first can recite Newton’s laws, solve every problem on a test, and explain forces in perfect technical language. The second has intuition—they feel what it’s like when a rock misses, bounces, or shatters a window. AI is always the first child: it can quote the rules flawlessly but cannot feel their real-world implications. In a business context, this translates to strategies that are mathematically optimal but practically impossible, or recommendations that sound perfect on paper but fail when human unpredictability enters the equation.
The knowledge exists in one dimension—the abstract—but misses the messy, real-world consequences. That’s AI in the boardroom. It has access to every data point, every historical trend, every model ever coded—but it does not experience.
Executives often mistake fluency for understanding. When AI generates a report saying, “Market X will decline by 12% next quarter,” it sounds confident, authoritative—even prophetic. But it hasn’t lived through the client politics, regulatory shifts, or operational bottlenecks that could make that number irrelevant. It doesn’t know the tragedy of a misread signal—the human cost, reputational damage, or the subtle signals of a team ready to quit.
Here’s a more extreme analogy to make the stakes clear: imagine an alien mathematician who can solve unsolvable equations instantly. You bring it into your boardroom and ask, “Where should we invest next year?” It gives you a precise answer. But it has no sense of the human cost of layoffs, the reputational damage of a misstep, or the political friction in regulatory bodies. You, the executive, are the one who bridges that gap—you interpret, adapt, and decide. AI gives solutions, but humans give meaning.
AI will continue to sound human, advise in ways that mimic wisdom, and even surprise us with insights we could never generate on our own.
But the executive who takes blindly takes all AI data on face value risks relying on “knowledge without experience.”
The leaders who thrive will be those who can decode the alien mind—understand where it is brilliant, where it is blind, and how to act decisively on its suggestions.
Brilliant leaders struggle not because AI fails, but because they assumed AI “understood” the business like a human partner. The alien mind doesn’t weigh ethical dilemmas, cultural friction, or employee morale. It models probabilities and correlations—but it doesn’t sense the room.
AI will continue to speak our language, produce insights that sound intelligent, and surprise us with capabilities we could never achieve alone. But it will always be alien until a human interprets it.
This is where I guide leaders: transforming alien insight into human advantage, ensuring that intelligence—machine or otherwise—actually drives results.
Over the past decade, as a consultant I’ve guided companies through transformation, and strategic innovation in multiple Areas such as Leadership and Maximizing Business Performance and Sales.. But now we are in a new age: The AI Age. where all of these things can only be understood and amplified keeping in mind that your new employees, may very well eventually be a form of Artificial Intelligence:
As someone who has literally built multiple AI “Employees” or “teammates” myself, I speak from literal experience of working everyday with these entities and understanding how to literally get them to become a DIGITAL KNIGHT for your kingdom, not just a mercenary. I am not a coder of AI, but an interpreter, the advisor who can turn your alien intelligence from a tool to a loyal digital “employee”, one that won’t leave for a higher pay-package!
If read to turn your tools into digital knights, contact me.
My consulting credentials: http://anubhavsrivastava.com/about-anubhav
Email: anubhav101@gmail.com
Anubhav Srivastava
I have also authored three books. Unlearn: A Practical Guide to Business & Life. How to Cope With A Brutal World. Nothing/Everything: The Mindbending Philosophical Theory of Everything. Finally, my fourth and upcoming work is titled -The Alien Mind: Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI!
