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Would You Follow a Robot Leader?: The Future of Leadership in the Age of Machines
Could you ever follow a robot leader? What about obeying a robot president?
Advancing algorithms, big data feeding artificial intelligence, precipitous machine learning and science fiction being replaced by science fact - all of these are radically affecting how we do business. The genie is out of the bottle and there's no way to stuff it back in again.
As the march of artificial intelligence continues, what could this mean for business leaders? Are they likely to be replaced by a machine in the next 30 years?
Would you Follow a Robot Leader ? explores the ways in which leadership will be defined and delivered in the business of the future. It explores the morality involved in appointing and following a machine and interrogates what businesses and the Boardroom need to do to adapt. Is this a threat to the C-Suite, or an opportunity beyond anything we've conceived before?
Would you Follow a Robot Leader? introduces the concepts of Weak, General and Super AI, and looks at the way that companies can be structured around decisions made by machines. It explores the opportunities open to organizations if they embrace intelligent automation and robotic decision makers, but addresses the ethics we need to think about before it's too late. If a robot drives, hires and fires, is this the end of work as we know it, or the beginning of something more?
Advancing algorithms, big data feeding artificial intelligence, precipitous machine learning and science fiction being replaced by science fact - all of these are radically affecting how we do business. The genie is out of the bottle and there's no way to stuff it back in again.
As the march of artificial intelligence continues, what could this mean for business leaders? Are they likely to be replaced by a machine in the next 30 years?
Would you Follow a Robot Leader ? explores the ways in which leadership will be defined and delivered in the business of the future. It explores the morality involved in appointing and following a machine and interrogates what businesses and the Boardroom need to do to adapt. Is this a threat to the C-Suite, or an opportunity beyond anything we've conceived before?
Would you Follow a Robot Leader? introduces the concepts of Weak, General and Super AI, and looks at the way that companies can be structured around decisions made by machines. It explores the opportunities open to organizations if they embrace intelligent automation and robotic decision makers, but addresses the ethics we need to think about before it's too late. If a robot drives, hires and fires, is this the end of work as we know it, or the beginning of something more?
288 pages, Hardcover
Published October 28, 2019
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About the author
Theo Priestley
7 books3 followersTheo is a former leading futurist, globally recognised author and public keynote speaker on the convergence of many emerging technology and business trends.
Having spent the last two decades writing non-fiction and business-related topics spanning over 500 articles he has now turned his attention to speculative fiction - with a particular penchant for weaving dark and twisted short stories in the same vein as The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
He has previously published two non-fiction books on business and technology trends and more recently, in 2025, a self-published anthology of short stories, "Writer's Block and Other Tales of the Unexpected".
He is also working on his first science fiction fantasy novel, based on an idea and universe he created in 2018 as part of a video game project.
Theo lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and three cats.
Having spent the last two decades writing non-fiction and business-related topics spanning over 500 articles he has now turned his attention to speculative fiction - with a particular penchant for weaving dark and twisted short stories in the same vein as The Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits.
He has previously published two non-fiction books on business and technology trends and more recently, in 2025, a self-published anthology of short stories, "Writer's Block and Other Tales of the Unexpected".
He is also working on his first science fiction fantasy novel, based on an idea and universe he created in 2018 as part of a video game project.
Theo lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and three cats.
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