Just AI: Leading with Love in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

In this episode of the 11 Ten Leadership Podcast, Rob Shields and David Spickard revisit the rapidly evolving conversation around artificial intelligence and explore what it means to lead well in a world where AI can outrun our teams, our judgment, and even our rest.

Drawing from Notre Dame's DELTA framework: Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence, and Agency and 11 Ten Leadership's THRIVE model, Rob and David consider how leaders can embrace the real benefits of AI without allowing efficiency, productivity, or the pressure to keep up to redefine what matters most. They explore the tension between using AI to create margin and simply filling that margin with more work, the impact of AI on jobs and human dignity, and the danger of allowing AI to eliminate the wrestling and relational work that makes leadership meaningful.

Ultimately, AI is a mirror and it will amplify what is already present in us and our organizations. The question for leaders is: Are we approaching AI through a lens of love or a lens of power?

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – What does AI reveal about us?

03:00 – David's evolving relationship with AI

07:00 – What we could lose when AI eliminates the “wrestling”

09:00 – The DELTA framework: Dignity, Embodiment, Love, Transcendence & Agency

14:00 – AI as an extension of our leadership philosophy

16:00 – Love vs. power: What lens are we using?

20:00 – AI, jobs, and the dignity of work

24:00 – Using AI to create margin for people