David De Cremer: Leading with AI

Do you use AI to its full potential?

Knowing how AI can supercharge your work, and your business must be a priority for any C-suite executive. But there are also risks leaders must consider to be able to make informed decisions. So where do you start?

My guest in this episode, Professor David De Cremer, is an author and business school dean. He believes leaders need AI savviness and shares his thoughts on the mindsets needed to use AI in the boardroom and wider organisation. He also discusses problems leaders can face around knowing when not to use AI, and the fact you don’t need to know everything about it for it to succeed.

To get the best out of AI, humans need to collaborate with it rather than use it simply as a cost-cutting tool. This episode is a must listen for anyone looking to do just that and enhance their leadership in a world powered by AI.

You’ll hear about:

• Why is David interested in AI specifically?
• How revolutionary is AI?
• How leaders can overcome the fear of AI
• Humans and AI will have to collaborate
• Countering the risks of AI
• Knowing when not to use AI
• The role of AI in board meetings
• How far could AI go being a board member?
• David’s biggest shift since using AI
• The impact David wants to have on the world
• What does David’s best day look like?

More about David

David De Cremer is the Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and a professor of management and technology at Northeastern University. He is the founder of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) in Singapore, a member of EY’s advisory board for global AI and an honorary fellow at Cambridge University and St Edmunds College. He is the author of the bestsellers Leadership by Algorithm: who leads and who follows in the AI era and The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine ways to take back control and make AI work.

His scholarly work has been written about in the Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and many other outlets, earning him accolades as a Thinkers50 thought leader, a World Top 30 management guru and speaker, and inclusion in the World’s Top 2% Scientists.

• David’s profile
• David’s book The AI-Savvy Leader