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AI in Education and Cognitive Development for Future Generations
Addressing the role of AI in shaping cognitive development and adaptive learning systems, equipping children with skills to thrive in an AI-influenced world while promoting critical thinking and creativity.

Leadership in Uncertainty: Developing Pure Perception as a Foundational Skill

Investigating the leadership skill of ‘pure perception’—the ability to perceive without bias or interference—as a cornerstone for navigating uncertainty and making clear-sighted decisions in AI-driven landscapes.

Ethnopsychology and AI: Culturally Informed Digital Ecosystems

Exploring how AI can model and predict human behavior by integrating ethno-psychological insights, ensuring that AI applications are empathetic and responsive to diverse cultural and psychological needs.

Preserving Cognitive Autonomy in the AI Age: Examining the ethical risks of AI-driven manipulation techniques, including predictive profiling,
subtle psychological tactics, subliminal cues and cognitive nudging, and exploring frameworks to ensure AI empowers rather than exploits human decision-making.

Generative Agent-Based Modeling (GABM) for Complex Scenarios

Investigating how GABM enables organizations to simulate complex, human-like behaviors and multi-risk scenarios, helping leaders anticipate outcomes and develop adaptive strategies in areas like healthcare and public policy.

Digital Dual Inheritance: Aligning AI with Cultural Evolution

Delving into the intersection of rapid technological advancements and cultural shifts, exploring ways to integrate AI in ways that resonate with human values, traditions, and evolving societal norms.

Smart Kin-directed Cognitive Cities – Human-centered infrastructure, based on historical and philosophical foundations of Architecture.

AI Security – Securing AI Integrity and Building Trust
Investigating methods to protect AI systems from adversarial attacks and secure data integrity, focusing on strategies to detect vulnerabilities and reinforce trust within digitally connected societies.

Strategic Wargaming with AI: Enhancing Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Utilizing wargaming techniques combined with AI-driven simulations to train leaders, improve decision-making, and develop cognitive flexibility in preparing for potential risks and dynamic challenges


Strategic Foresight Through Scenario Planning and Design Anthropology
Examining how AI-driven scenario planning, enhanced with design anthropology, allows organizations to understand cultural shifts, predict future behaviors, and create strategies that are both adaptable and culturally attuned.

Understanding Human Behavior Through AI and Phenomenology
Investigating the impact of AI on human behavior and personal interaction, using philosophical and anthropological perspectives to understand how AI reshapes our perceptions of reality, existence, and self.

AI Dexterity and Organizational Readiness – Addressing the growing gap between AI advancements and organizational readiness, with a focus on building digital dexterity, fostering adaptability, and aligning AI adoption with business goals.

Digital Dual Inheritance: Aligning AI with Cultural Evolution – Delving into the intersection of rapid technological advancements and cultural shifts, exploring ways to integrate AI in ways that resonate with human values, traditions, and evolving societal norms.

Speaking Topics

Bridging the AI Dexterity Gap: Building a Future-Ready Organization

Ali can address the growing gap between rapid technological advancements and organizational readiness, focusing on how businesses can develop AI dexterity. The talk will emphasize the importance of scaling AI adoption effectively and aligning it with business goals, rather than rushing towards automation. The session will include strategies for navigating this gap, cultivate digital dexterity, and fostering a culture of adaptability.

Safeguarding Cognitive Autonomy: Addressing the Risks of AI-Driven Manipulation

This talk addresses the potential for AI systems to influence or manipulate human decision-making. Ali will explore how AI systems may subtly influence cognitive processes through techniques like predictive profiling, ethno-psychologically targeted messaging, and social comparison dynamics. Ali will discuss ethical considerations and proactive strategies to protect user autonomy, ensuring that AI applications empower rather than exploit human cognition. The session will guide leaders on building trust in AI by implementing transparent, user-centered AI practices that prioritize ethical design and respect for individual autonomy.

From Machine Dexterity to Conversational AI: Navigating the Next Stage of Human-Technology Interaction

This session highlights the historical progression of human dexterity, from physical tools to the integration of AI in decision-making. Ali will explore how conversational AI and two-way communication systems can foster deeper, more intuitive interactions between humans and machines, creating new opportunities for innovation.

Strategic Foresight in the Age of AI: Building Resilience Through Scenario Planning and Design Anthropology

In this talk, Ali will explore how AI-driven scenario planning, enriched with design anthropology, empowers leaders to build resilient, adaptable organizations in uncertain times. By combining AI with design anthropology, this approach goes beyond data analysis to understand the human and cultural dimensions of change. Ali will discuss how leaders can use AI to simulate diverse futures while drawing from anthropological insights to anticipate shifts in consumer behaviors, social dynamics, and cultural expectations.

AI and Human Behavior: The Phenomenology of Machine Interaction

In this talk, Ali can discuss the human experience of interacting with AI technologies, drawing from anthropological and philosophical perspectives to examine how AI is reshaping personal and organizational behavior.

The Phenomenology of AI: Exploring Human-Machine Interaction Through Existential and Ontological Lenses

Ali can explore the human experience of AI systems from a phenomenological perspective, delving into how we interact with machines on an emotional, cognitive, and sensory level. This session will address the deeper philosophical questions of existence and reality in the age of interconnected AI, helping individuals and organizations understand how these interactions shape our perception of life and technology.

Ethnopsychology in the Age of AI: Understanding Human Behavior in Digital Ecosystems

This session focuses on how AI interacts with human psychology across cultures and communities. Ali will use ethnopsychological insights to explain how AI can model and predict behavior, taking into account cultural, emotional, and psychological nuances. This will help organizations develop more empathetic, human-centered AI applications that better serve diverse populations.

Pure Perception: A Foundational Skill for Leadership in Uncertain Times

This topic explores the essential leadership skill of ‘pure perception,’ focusing on leaders’ ability to perceive and interpret situations accurately without bias or interference. Ali will discuss how this skill enables leaders to recognize opportunities amidst uncertainties and make more grounded, clear-sighted decisions. Emphasizing methods like situational awareness and intentional adaptability, Ali will guide leaders on honing pure perception as a foundational skill in AI-driven, rapidly evolving environments, allowing them to navigate complexities and lead with clarity and resilience.

Securing AI Systems: Protecting Against Adversarial Attacks and Ensuring Integrity

In this session, Ali will explore the risks posed by adversarial attacks on AI systems and the need for robust security measures. He will cover practical approaches for safeguarding AI models, detecting vulnerabilities, and ensuring that AI applications remain resilient and reliable under different threat scenarios. This talk will provide leaders with strategies to protect AI deployments and maintain the integrity of their technology infrastructure. He will cover strategies for protecting the integrity of AI by implementing advanced detection of deceptive content and securing models against adversarial influence, thus maintaining trust and social cohesion in a digitally connected society.

Bringing AI-Powered Virtual Avatars to Life: Generative Agent-Based Modeling (GABM) for Multi-Risk Scenario Planning

This topic explores how AI-powered avatars simulate real human decision-making, interactions, and behaviors in industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and public policy. Ali will introduce GABM as a revolutionary approach for business leaders and policy makers to simulate complex scenarios involving human decision-making and how transcends traditional models by allowing AI agents to make autonomous decisions, creating human-like behaviors and interactions that help organizations predict outcomes and plan for uncertainty.

Bridging the AI Dexterity Gap: Building a Future-Ready Organization

Ali can address the growing gap between rapid technological advancements and organizational readiness, focusing on how businesses can develop AI dexterity. The talk will emphasize the importance of scaling AI adoption effectively and aligning it with business goals, rather than rushing towards automation. The session will include strategies for navigating this gap, cultivate digital dexterity, and fostering a culture of adaptability.

Digital Dual Inheritance: Navigating the Intersection of Cultural Evolution and AI

Ali will delve into the concept of Digital Dual Inheritance, where rapid technological advancements intersect with cultural evolution. This session will provide insights into how businesses can align technology adoption with cultural shifts, ensuring that AI is integrated in a way that resonates with both employees and customers.

Designing Future Cities: AI, Architecture, and Human-Centric Urban Planning

Ali could speak on how AI can influence urban design and city planning by ensuring that future cities are human-centered, incorporating historical and philosophical insights into the use of AI in smart city infrastructure.

Mastering Uncertainty: Building Resilience Through Decision Intelligence

This keynote emphasizes how AI-powered decision intelligence transforms uncertainty into a competitive advantage. Ali can explore the role of Generative AI in scenario planning, helping organizations navigate the complexities of modern business, overcome common biases, and enhance flexibility through adaptive strategies.

Wargaming for Strategic Foresight: Using Simulative AI to Build Resilient Organizations

This topic explores the use of wargaming combined with AI-driven simulations to train employees and prepare organizations for various potential outcomes. Ali can showcase how scenario-based training and wargaming can develop cognitive flexibility and improve decision-making under uncertainty. Combining wargaming techniques with AI-powered simulations, this talk will highlight how businesses can explore multiple futures and test their strategies in dynamic, ever-changing environments. Ali can discuss how behavioral science, systems thinking, and wargaming frameworks enable leaders to anticipate risks, adapt strategies in real time, assess the ripple effects of decisions, and create robust, resilient business strategies.

AI and Childhood Development: Shaping the Future of Generations through Adaptive Learning Systems

Addressing the long-term impacts of AI on children and their cognitive development, Ali will explore how AI-driven education systems can be designed to foster critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability. This session will help policymakers and educators create learning environments that prepare the next generation for the uncertainties of the AI era.

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