The public mood is turning against AI, because the revolution is happening to them, not for them. And the leaders running fastest toward AI adoption are often running blindly — driven by competitive anxiety rather than strategy, lemmings in good suits leading their organisations toward a cliff they haven't looked over. A tough-love talk that pulls no punches.
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⦿ Why the public anger about AI is legitimate — and what leaders are missing
⦿ How to tell whether your AI strategy is vision or herd instinct
⦿ How to restore hope and agency for the young and the disadvantaged
⦿ How to lead a mixed workforce of humans, agents, and embodied AI
⦿ What non-lemming leadership actually looks like — and how to be it
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Available as keynote (45 min), keynote with Q&A (60 min), panel, or fireside chat. Best suited to CEOs, CPOs, leadership programmes, diversity and inclusion events, and young people's organisations. David speaks from direct experience — having built enterprise AI at scale and served on civil society boards for over a decade. The poacher and the gamekeeper.