Define Leadership.

Explain the role of Artificial Intelligence is the effectiveness of

leader’s response to Volatile, Uncertain & Ambiguous environment.

Leadership is doing the right things / decisions in regards to management where things / decisions
are done right. “Leader knows the way, shows that way & Goes that way”.
Leader is a person who assures the team to work through stability & transparency. He / She has to be
clear about decision making with an attitude of tolerance towards learning – based mistakes of its
team members. Leadership is quality in which failures are considered as resources so that a feeling of
faith & trust can be built to perform in a better manner.
Leadership means to improve the capabilities of peers & encouraging them to achieve defined goals.
While learning from each other & preparing themselves for serving as leaders for next generations.
Through this each team member will get to understand his / her importance in the team & urges to
perform better. In this way skills & efforts of each member combined will multiply the output of
entire team to achieve complex goals & make wise decisions.
Continued rise in retired – age individuals raise the need of replacing traditional workforce with
possible technology alternatives. Robots tend to be non – functional without leaders so for resolving
this issue Artificial Intelligence (AI) position can be introduced. A communication standard /
medium should be set for both human & machine members.
AI can help us overcome some of our flaws as leaders. There are two broad domains of AI i.e.,
“General” AI which refers to smart yet adaptable machines that can outdo & perform a variety of
situations with human – level ability (i.e., driving, cooking, running, climbing etc.). Some “Specific”
AI, which can carry out small set of narrowly – defined chores with superhuman ability.
Volatile, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguous presents many challenges for leadership but out of
all Complexity is the most important one with which a specific form of AI can perform in compliance
with humans. Because the proportion of complexity generated by data in this era of tech, the
processing capacity of humans also declines & failed to perform with 100% efficiency. Even though
some of standard data – processing software exhibit flaws at times. For resolving this issue an
intelligent algorithm can be used to sort & classify information consisting a pre – specified goal.
In situations of Uncertainty AI can generate comprehensive contingency plan by generating many
possible alternatives (decision tree) with accuracy & precision in regards to humans. With perks &
benefits of AI comes with a cost also. This cost comes in the form of a trade – off between speed &
accuracy. AI may not be able to perform well when tasked with resolving a high number of relevant
variables.
AI to function in volatile & ambiguous environment, it demands a more general technique to
problem solving (ability to learn how to learn).
Difficulty in developing AI that can think & perform flexibly in volatile & ambiguous environment
is the ability of algorithm to initiate ‘mental models’ of the humans. In contrast to humans, they can
be strongly guided by mental modes of physics (persistence of unseen items, casual relationships
between objects, effect of gravity) or of psychology. Some AI lacks this ability. An AI modeled with
superhuman capability can take several hours to adapt with this behavior. Learning models of humans
can interfere with AI adapting to new situations with different rules & regulations.
There are some practical & ethical challenges for general AI becoming an autonomous factor, not
only gaining the ability to navigate a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous environment with
human – level competency but it arouses some challenges.
For Ex # In the case of AI installed in a driverless car it is equipped with a specific goal i.e., to
transport passengers safely from one location to other. Assume if on a busy pedestrian the car’s brake
fail, it should have the ability stored in it to make decision. But the autonomous car has the software
designed to safely transport Passenger only at the expense of injuring multiple lives. The “hard –
coded” structure for AI (keeping the passenger safe) certainly will help guide behavior, but even well
– intended solutions can be disastrous when inflexibly applied.