Will leaders embrace it so fully that human judgement is sidelined - or will fear-driven narratives of super intelligent machines distract us from the real challenges already at hand? While definitive answers are still forming, one reality is clear - artificial intelligence is forcing governments, organisations and societies to rethink the future now. Today's leaders, and those preparing to lead, cannot afford to wait. The decisions they make today will shape their organisations' resilience, relevance and legitimacy for decades to come. The authors argue that AI holds the potential to drive enlightened growth - for organisations and for leaders themselves. The future will not belong to AI alone, nor solely to human capability, but to their intentional coexistence. This balance - described as 'dual intelligence' - integrates advanced AI with thoughtful human intelligence (HI), ensuring the human remains firmly in the loop, accountable for judgement, ethics and outcomes

Dinesh C. Sharma is an award-winning journalist and author based in Delhi. In a career spanning close to four decades, he has written extensively on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation for Indian and global media, including The Lancet and Wired. He was previously science editor at Mail Today and managing editor at India Science Wire. In 2008, he travelled to the Arctic and joined an international scientific expedition there to report on climate change.

He is the author of the national bestseller Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad. His book The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution was awarded the Computer History Museum Book Prize in 2016. His most recent book is Beyond Biryani: The Making of a Globalised Hyderabad.

Sharma has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and also visiting faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila. He tweets on X as @dineshcsharma