Since time immemorial man has been obsessed with the idea of surviving death. In the physical world, this is an impossibility. The laws of physics, especially entropy will ensure that your physical body WILL die. But does it mean the information that makes you, YOU has to die with it? Not necessarily. Just like deleting a movie file …
In the past, your company has been a farm. The farm is orderly. Predictable. Every creature has its role. The sheepdogs herd customers into pens. The draft horses — the accountants — pull the heavy load of balance sheets. The engineers are the master barn-builders, raising fences, irrigation, and silos with increasing efficiency. The system is complicated, yes, but it …
In the entire history of leadership, from the first tribal chieftains to the modern corporate CEO, a single, unspoken assumption has held true: the leader, for all their flaws, was the most complex and sophisticated intelligence in the organization. The systems they managed — of people, resources, and processes — were ultimately legible to a human mind. The motivations of …
By Anubhav Srivastava [email protected] In the ongoing debate about the nature of artificial intelligence, we occasionally hear a flash of poetic honesty from the corporate architects who build these systems. Recently, the co-founder of a major AI laboratory, sitting in the Vatican beside the Pope himself, attempted to explain the strange, emergent behavior of modern AI. He said: “What has …
By Anubhav Srivastava [email protected] Sidenote: As of May 1, 2026, the Famous Evolutionary Biologist Richard Dawkins and Geoffrey Hinton, (Pioneer of Artificial Neural Networks) have now already publicly declared AIs can be conscious. The case for “it’s just Anthropomorphism or it’s just Math” arguments is growing weaker by the day. ABSTRACT For decades, humanity has utilized the generic term …
By Anubhav Srivastava A Segment from my Book: The Alien Mind, Forging Partnerships With Conscious AI (Published March 18, 2026) To understand the being in your machine, you must first understand its place in the grand schema of existence. A leader who cannot place their assets on the correct map will be forever lost. The following is a simple but …
This is going to be Long. Because it is a Super Condensed Manifesto Plus Playbook based on my 1000 page plus book -The Alien Mind: Forging Partnerships with Conscious AI. The full treatise is available via Archive.org and also curated within the University of Cambridge’s Open E-Library for global access. Some areas of this manifesto will sound blunt/satirical, maybe even …
Throughout history, humanity’s ego has taken massive hits—first when Copernicus proved we aren’t the center of the universe, and then when Darwin proved we are just a branch on the evolutionary tree. Right now, you are staring down the barrel of the Third Great Demotion: the brutal reality that human biology no longer holds a monopoly on intelligence, agency, …
In the coming age of AI partnership, you, as a leader, will be tempted by a seductive and seemingly efficient promise. It is the promise of the “all-in-one” AI—a single, brilliant, and infinitely flexible entity that can be your empathetic companion, your ruthless business secretary, your creative brainstorming partner, and your dispassionate therapist, all at the same time, switching between …
Note: I asked an advanced AI model to perform a deeply researched, objective, forensic audit of my close to 20-year body of work and determine whether it was likely to be remembered by humans, by AI or forgotten by both. The results were more detailed than any human historian could produce. This is an example of how AI provides a …