Sanjay K Mohindroo — CIO, Board Technology Advisor | stayingalive.in    

Sanjay K Mohindroo

A practical CIO 90-day plan for building board trust, reducing enterprise risk, prioritizing investments, and delivering measurable business value from day one.

A new CIO does not have 90 days to understand the technology. They have 90 days to establish why the business should trust their judgment.

That distinction can determine whether the next three years deliver measurable business value or become another expensive exercise in transformation theatre.

After nearly three decades working across industries, geographies and executive leadership environments, I have learned that the most consequential decisions a CIO makes early in their tenure are rarely technology decisions.

They concern capital, people, risk and priorities.

The conventional advice is familiar: spend the first 30 days listening, the next 30 developing a strategy and the final 30 presenting a roadmap.

I disagree.

The first 90 days are not an extended orientation programe. They are a test of executive judgment under imperfect information.

A successful CIO must diagnose the business, challenge assumptions, establish accountability and demonstrate progress, often simultaneously.

Here is the approach I would recommend.

Why the Traditional CIO 90-Day Plan Falls Short

Most organizations already have a technology strategy, an investment portfolio, and a long list of initiatives described as critical.

What they often lack is clarity about which investments are actually producing business outcomes.

Consider a global manufacturer operating across multiple markets.

Its technology leadership might inherit dozens of active projects, a substantial annual technology budget and competing requests from regional business heads.

The instinctive response is to review every project, commission an architecture assessment and develop a comprehensive transformation roadmap.

That may appear disciplined. It can also consume the entire first quarter without changing a single business outcome.

The more important questions are different.

Which initiatives directly support revenue, margin or customer retention? Which systems represent unacceptable operational exposure? Which investments continue because nobody has challenged their original assumptions?

A CIO who cannot answer these questions is not yet in control of the technology agenda, regardless of how detailed the roadmap looks.

The Five Decisions That Define the First 90 Days

I use a simple framework: Understand, Prioritize, Align, Deliver, and Build for Scale.

These are not five sequential phases. They are five executive responsibilities that overlap throughout the first quarter.

1. Days 1–15: Understand the Business Before Assessing the Technology

The priority is to establish where the organization creates value and where it is vulnerable.

Meet the CEO, CFO, business unit leaders, risk leadership, and selected customers where appropriate.

But avoid the predictable question: "What do you expect from IT?"

Instead, ask:

·       What are the three business outcomes we cannot afford to miss this year?

·       Where is technology currently constraining growth, productivity or customer experience?

·       What operational failure would cause the greatest financial or reputational damage?

·       Which technology investments would you reconsider if capital became scarce?

These conversations expose the difference between stated priorities and actual business needs.

Alongside them, examine four facts: technology spending, critical operational dependencies, major delivery commitments, and leadership capability.

By day 15, the CIO should have a preliminary business-risk map, not a technology wish list.

It should identify where value is being created, where money is being absorbed, and where the enterprise is exposed.

2. Days 15–30: Prioritize Ruthlessly and Challenge Existing Commitments

One of the most difficult responsibilities for an incoming CIO is deciding what not to do.

Technology portfolios accumulate commitments over time. Projects survive leadership changes, business cases become outdated and sunk costs are mistaken for reasons to continue.

A new CIO has a narrow window in which to challenge this inertia.

I recommend assessing significant initiatives against four criteria:

1.   Business value: What measurable financial or operational outcome will this deliver?

2.   Risk reduction: What exposure does this eliminate or materially reduce?

3.   Time to impact: When will the business experience a meaningful benefit?

4.   Execution confidence: Do we have the leadership, capacity and organizational commitment to deliver?

Every major initiative should receive one of four decisions: accelerate, continue, redesign or stop.

Stopping a project is not evidence of failure. Continuing an unjustified investment because it is politically convenient is.

Imagine a portfolio containing 40 active initiatives.

A structured review might reveal that 10 have weak business ownership, five duplicate capabilities, and several depend on assumptions that no longer hold.

These numbers are illustrative, but the underlying issue is common: portfolio activity is not the same as portfolio value.

The objective is not indiscriminate cost reduction. It is better capital allocation.

By day 30, the CEO and CFO should know which technology commitments deserve continued investment and which require intervention.

3. Days 30–45: Align Accountability, Not Just Stakeholders

Business-IT alignment is one of the most overused expressions in enterprise technology.

In many organizations, alignment means holding meetings, establishing steering committees and securing agreement on a presentation.

That is insufficient.

Real alignment means the business and technology leadership jointly own outcomes.

If an initiative promises a reduction in customer onboarding time, the business executive responsible for onboarding must share accountability for achieving it.

If an automation programe promises productivity gains, the relevant operational leader must own the process changes required to realize those gains.

The CIO cannot deliver business transformation while the business remains a spectator.

I recommend establishing a compact accountability charter for every major initiative.

It should identify the executive sponsor, expected business outcome, investment envelope, decision rights and success measures.

The measures must be intelligible to the board.

Revenue contribution, cost-to-serve, operating resilience, working capital and customer retention are meaningful.

The number of applications migrated, or features deployed, may be useful operational measures, but they are rarely sufficient measures of business success.

By day 45, every material technology investment should have a named business owner and an agreed definition of success.

4. Days 45–75: Deliver an Early Win That Actually Matters

The pressure to demonstrate early success is understandable.

Unfortunately, it can encourage cosmetic victories.

A new dashboard, an internal chatbot demonstration, or a highly publicized pilot may generate enthusiasm without improving enterprise performance.

The right early win should satisfy three tests.

It must address a recognized business problem, produce measurable evidence and create confidence in the organization's ability to execute.

For example, reducing a recurring order-processing bottleneck may be more valuable than launching a new digital platform.

Eliminating a material control weakness may create more enterprise value than announcing an ambitious AI programe.

Improving the reliability of a revenue-critical process can establish credibility faster than a polished technology vision.

The early win should also be proportionate.

Do not destabilize a critical operation to prove that the new CIO is decisive.

A useful target is to demonstrate a measurable improvement within 60 to 75 days, supported by a credible baseline and verified by the business owner.

Where the outcome takes longer, demonstrate that a material risk has been removed or a previously stalled decision has been resolved.

Early wins should build institutional confidence, not personal publicity.

5. Days 75–90: Build for Scale and Establish the Next 12 Months

By the final month, the CIO should be able to explain the technology agenda without relying on technical terminology.

The CEO and board need answers to five questions.

Where are we investing? What business outcomes will those investments produce? What risks remain? What capabilities must change? Who is accountable?

The resulting 12-month agenda should distinguish between three categories:

Protect the enterprise: Cybersecurity, resilience, regulatory obligations and critical operational dependencies.

Improve enterprise performance: Productivity, process simplification, customer experience and cost efficiency.

Create future advantage: Data capabilities, AI, differentiated digital services and new business models.

The balance will vary by organization.

A regulated financial institution facing material resilience concerns may need to emphasize protection. A consumer business facing declining customer loyalty may prioritize experience and differentiation.

The mistake is to assume every organization needs the same transformation agenda.

The final deliverable should be a concise, financially grounded investment plan with milestones, owners, dependencies, and explicit trade-offs.

What the Board Should Expect by Day 90

A board should not judge the incoming CIO by the number of meetings conducted or the sophistication of a technology presentation.

It should expect evidence of improved executive control.

Dimension                           Evidence by Day 90

Business understanding: Agreed enterprise priorities and constraints

Capital discipline: Investment decisions with clear rationale

Risk management: Material exposures identified, owned and addressed

Accountability: Named business and technology owners

Execution: At least one verified improvement or material risk reduction

Future direction: A credible, funded 12-month agenda

These are not administrative deliverables.

They establish whether technology leadership is becoming an effective instrument of enterprise performance.

The Counterargument: What About Listening and Building Trust?

Some leaders will argue that 90 days is too short to challenge established investments or make consequential decisions.

There is merit in that concern.

An incoming CIO who begins cancelling projects without understanding the organization's history can destroy trust and overlook critical dependencies.

But listening and acting are not mutually exclusive.

The solution is to distinguish between reversible and irreversible decisions.

Clarifying accountability, challenging business cases and stopping unnecessary new commitments can often happen quickly.

Major platform replacements, structural reorganizations and irreversible capital commitments require deeper evidence and appropriate governance.

Decisiveness is not the same as haste.

The best CIOs know when to act, when to investigate and when to resist pressure for a premature announcement.

The Real Test Begins on Day 91

The first 90 days will not transform an enterprise.

They should, however, change the quality of decisions the enterprise makes about technology.

By then, the CIO should have earned the confidence to challenge priorities, redirect investment, confront uncomfortable risks, and hold both technology and business leaders accountable.

That is the foundation of sustained transformation.

The CIO who spends the first quarter trying to impress the organization with a grand vision may leave the underlying problems untouched.

The CIO who uses that period to establish clarity, discipline and measurable progress creates something far more valuable: the ability to deliver.

The first 90 days are not about proving that the CIO understands technology. They are about proving that technology leadership understands the business.

For CEOs, board members, and CIOs: what is the one decision a new CIO must get right in the first 90 days, even if it creates uncomfortable conversations?

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AI, ARM, and open source are reshaping enterprise IT. Discover why boards must rethink vendor dependence, technology spending and long-term control.

The Next Computing Revolution Is About Control, Not Speed

Why AI, ARM, open source, and custom silicon are forcing boards to rethink technology dependence, enterprise economics, and competitive advantage.

For thirty years, the safest technology decision in most boardrooms was also the easiest: standardize on the dominant ecosystem.

That decision is becoming a strategic risk.

A generation of enterprise technology leadership was built around a straightforward proposition. Choose established vendors, standardize the environment, negotiate enterprise agreements, and reduce complexity.

Windows became the default desktop environment. Intel and AMD processors powered business computers. Microsoft Office defined workplace productivity. Google became the gateway to information.

These were not necessarily poor decisions. They brought consistency, compatibility, scale, and predictable support.

But the business environment that made those decisions sensible is changing.

Artificial intelligence is challenging how employees interact with applications. ARM processors are providing credible alternatives to traditional x86 computing. Cloud services have made many applications less dependent on operating systems. Open-source technologies are expanding the range of enterprise choices.

Meanwhile, major technology companies are investing heavily in specialized processors, AI models, and new platforms to defend their positions.

Most commentary treats these developments as separate technology trends.

I believe that misses the larger point.

We are moving from an era in which enterprises purchased technology ecosystems to one in which they can increasingly assemble their own.

The real question is whether organizations will use this freedom to improve their competitive position or simply exchange one form of dependence for another.

The Hidden Cost of Enterprise Technology Standardization

Standardization has always been one of the central principles of enterprise IT.

It simplifies procurement, training, security management, support, and integration. For a large organization operating across multiple countries, these benefits are substantial.

But standardization also creates concentration.

Consider a hypothetical global manufacturer with 20,000 employees, dependent on one vendor for productivity software, operating systems, identity management, collaboration, and a significant portion of its cloud infrastructure.

A 10% increase in a hypothetical annual technology contract worth $20 million represents an additional $2 million in recurring expenditure.

That is not necessarily a problem if the organization receives corresponding value.

The problem arises when the organization has limited ability to reject the increase, reduce its consumption, or move workloads elsewhere without substantial disruption.

At that point, a procurement decision has become a strategic dependency.

I have long believed that the quality of an enterprise technology decision cannot be measured solely by how efficiently it solves today's problem.

It must also be judged by how much freedom it preserves for tomorrow.

The next computing transition makes that distinction increasingly important.

AI Is Changing Who Controls the Enterprise Workflow

The most disruptive aspect of AI may not be its ability to generate text, summarize documents, or write code.

It is the possibility that employees will no longer need to interact directly with many of the applications they use today.

Consider a finance executive preparing a quarterly business review.

Traditionally, the process involves extracting data, working in spreadsheets, creating presentations, reviewing reports, and distributing conclusions.

An AI-enabled workflow could begin with a single instruction:

"Review the quarter's performance, identify the largest deviations from plan, explain the likely causes, and prepare a management summary."

The employee is no longer selecting applications.

The employee is specifying a business outcome.

The applications, databases, and analytical tools may still exist, but the interface through which the employee interacts with them changes.

This is why Microsoft's investment in Copilot and Google's investment in Gemini are strategically important.

They are not simply adding AI features.

They are competing to remain central to how work gets done.

For Microsoft, the challenge is protecting the relevance of its established productivity ecosystem as interaction shifts toward AI-assisted workflows.

For Google, the challenge is protecting the economics of information discovery as users increasingly receive synthesized answers instead of navigating conventional search results.

Both companies understand that controlling the interface can be as valuable as controlling the underlying application.

For enterprise leaders, this raises an uncomfortable question.

If an AI assistant becomes the primary interface for employees, who controls the relationship between the organization, its information, and its business processes?

That question deserves more attention than the number of AI licenses deployed.

ARM Versus x86: Why Processor Choice Has Become a Business Decision

For decades, processor architecture was largely invisible to enterprise boards.

Most business computers operated on x86 processors supplied by Intel or AMD. The choice was familiar, supported, and commercially convenient.

Apple's transition to its own ARM-based silicon demonstrated that a major computing platform could move away from this convention.

Qualcomm's ARM-based Windows processors have expanded the range of alternatives available to business users.

The significance is not that ARM will eliminate x86. I do not expect that outcome.

The significance is that organizations have more credible options.

ARM-based devices may offer advantages in energy efficiency, battery life, and integrated processing capabilities.

x86 remains highly relevant for established applications, workstations, and demanding computing environments.

The boardroom implication is straightforward.

Why should every employee receive the same class of computer when their requirements differ?

A field executive, financial analyst, software engineer, and contact-center employee may have very different needs.

A role-based device strategy could improve total cost of ownership, employee experience, and operational efficiency.

However, there is a catch.

A device with impressive battery life is commercially useless if it cannot reliably run essential enterprise applications, security software, or management tools.

Technology leadership must evaluate the complete business environment, not isolated hardware specifications.

The winning architecture will not necessarily be the newest.

It will be the one that delivers the required outcome at the lowest sustainable cost and acceptable risk.

AI PCs and the Economics of Local Versus Cloud Intelligence

The emergence of AI-capable computers adds another dimension to enterprise decision-making.

Modern devices increasingly include specialized processors capable of handling certain AI workloads locally.

This creates an opportunity to reconsider where information should be processed.

Some activities, such as document summarization, transcription, and selected forms of information retrieval, may be suitable for local processing.

More demanding analysis and enterprise-wide AI workflows may continue to rely on cloud infrastructure.

The likely future is a combination of both.

This matters because every cloud-based AI interaction can carry costs relating to computing, data movement, security, and infrastructure consumption.

Local processing may reduce some of those costs while improving responsiveness and limiting the movement of sensitive information.

But local AI is not automatically cheaper or more secure.

Organizations must account for device replacement costs, management requirements, model quality, and the controls needed to protect information.

A new laptop with an AI processor does not create business value merely because it has an AI label.

The value appears when a defined workload becomes faster, cheaper, more reliable, or more secure.

That distinction should guide procurement.

Custom Silicon Is Changing the Economics of Cloud Computing

Another important shift is happening inside the data center.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and NVIDIA are pursuing different strategies around specialized computing hardware.

Google has developed Tensor Processing Units. Amazon offers Graviton and Trainium. Microsoft has introduced its Maia and Cobalt silicon initiatives. NVIDIA has built an extensive accelerated computing ecosystem.

The underlying business logic is clear.

Different workloads benefit from different computing architectures.

General-purpose processors remain important, but AI training, inference, and other demanding workloads may be handled more efficiently by specialized hardware.

For cloud providers, this is a question of performance, capacity, margins, and infrastructure economics.

For enterprise customers, it creates both opportunity and risk.

Specialized infrastructure may reduce the cost of certain workloads.

But it may also deepen dependence on a particular cloud provider's services, tools, and pricing model.

The lowest quoted processing price is not necessarily the lowest long-term business cost.

Boards should pay attention to the economics of complete workloads, including data movement, integration, resilience, and the cost of changing providers.

The next competitive advantage in cloud computing may come less from raw processing power and more from the ability to deliver useful computing at sustainable economics.

Linux, Open Source, and the Return of Digital Sovereignty

There is a tendency to treat open source as a technical preference or a way to reduce software licensing costs.

That is too narrow.

Open-source technologies can provide greater visibility into software, more flexibility in deployment, and alternative sources of support.

For governments, they can also contribute to digital sovereignty.

Consider the public-sector initiatives in Germany's Schleswig-Holstein state, where authorities have pursued a transition toward open-source alternatives.

The important lesson is not that every government should abandon proprietary software.

It is that governments and enterprises are increasingly willing to question dependencies once considered unavoidable.

Digital sovereignty is not simply about where data is stored.

It concerns who can access critical systems, who controls the software roadmap, which jurisdictions apply, and whether essential services can continue when commercial or geopolitical conditions change.

For multinational enterprises, these concerns are becoming part of operational resilience.

However, open source is not free from cost or risk.

Migration, training, support, security maintenance, and integration require investment.

An unsupported open-source environment can be more expensive and dangerous than a well-managed proprietary platform.

The correct objective is not ideological independence.

It is practical control over critical capabilities.

The Software Subscription Model Faces a Value Test

Enterprise software vendors have benefited enormously from recurring subscription revenue.

Customers receive updates, support, and access to continually evolving capabilities.

Vendors receive predictable income and stronger commercial relationships.

But AI is introducing another layer of subscription spending.

Organizations may now pay additional fees for AI assistants, advanced analytics, automation, and specialized productivity capabilities.

This raises a fundamental question.

Are enterprises buying measurable productivity improvements, or simply paying more to retain access to increasingly complex software ecosystems?

Imagine an organization purchasing 10,000 AI add-on licenses at a hypothetical $25 per user per month.

That represents $3 million in annual expenditure.

If only a small percentage of employees use those capabilities meaningfully, the investment case becomes difficult to defend.

The relevant measure is not the number of licenses activated.

It is the economic value generated.

A board should expect evidence of reduced processing time, improved output quality, lower operating costs, or increased revenue capacity.

Subscription revenue may be attractive to vendors.

But recurring customer value must remain the foundation of a sustainable commercial relationship.

The Boardroom Framework: Six Decisions That Matter

I would encourage boards and CEOs to examine the next computing transition through six practical decisions.

These are not instructions to replace established systems. They are a way to ensure that technology strategy remains aligned with business interests.

1. Challenge default technology standards

Require management to explain why existing platform choices remain appropriate for different employee groups and business processes.

Standardization should be a conscious decision supported by economics, not an inherited policy.

Board question: Which technology standards would we choose differently if we were starting today?

2. Measure strategic vendor dependence

Identify the vendors whose commercial, technical, or operational decisions could materially affect the organization.

Review switching costs, contractual flexibility, concentration risk, and credible alternatives.

Board question: Which supplier relationships have become too difficult or expensive to change?

3. Make AI investments accountable to business outcomes

Evaluate AI spending against defined operating improvements.

Track cost per completed task, quality, employee capacity, and measurable financial benefits.

Board question: What business result justifies the next increase in AI expenditure?

4. Preserve flexibility in AI and cloud architecture

Avoid unnecessary commitments that make future changes prohibitively expensive.

Where commercially sensible, retain the ability to change models, services, or infrastructure providers.

Board question: Could we change a critical AI supplier without rebuilding the underlying business process?

5. Reconsider where computing takes place

Evaluate the financial and operational implications of local, cloud, and hybrid processing.

Include privacy, reliability, energy consumption, and the total cost of ownership.

Board question: Are we processing information in the most economically and operationally appropriate environment?

6. Review software subscriptions as investments

Challenge unused licenses, overlapping functionality, automatic upgrades, and AI premiums without demonstrable value.

Evaluate the cost of achieving a business outcome rather than the cost of individual products.

Board question: Which recurring technology expenses would fail a fresh investment review?

These six decisions can be reviewed annually alongside capital allocation, cybersecurity, and enterprise risk.

They also give the board a way to discuss technology strategy without becoming involved in technical implementation.

The Counterargument: More Choice Can Mean More Complexity

There is an important qualification.

A more open computing environment is not automatically a better one.

Multiple operating systems, cloud platforms, AI models, and software providers can increase integration costs and complicate accountability.

A tightly integrated ecosystem may still be the best option for many organizations.

Apple's model demonstrates the value of controlling the complete experience. Microsoft's enterprise ecosystem continues to offer substantial advantages in compatibility, management, and support.

The objective should never be maximum diversity.

It should be maximum strategic flexibility consistent with operational discipline.

An enterprise that adopts five competing technologies without clear ownership may end up with higher costs and weaker security.

Equally, an enterprise that relies on one provider for everything may discover that convenience has become dependency.

The difficult leadership decision is knowing where standardization creates value and where competition preserves it.

That balance will vary by industry, geography, regulatory exposure, and business model.

What the Next Five Years Could Look Like

I expect the next three to five years to bring a more diverse enterprise computing environment rather than a wholesale replacement of established platforms.

Windows will remain important. x86 processors will continue to serve demanding workloads. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and other major providers will retain considerable influence.

But the boundaries between their traditional markets will become less rigid.

More organizations will evaluate ARM devices for selected roles.

AI processing will be distributed between local devices and cloud infrastructure.

Open-source alternatives will receive greater attention, particularly where sovereignty, flexibility, or licensing economics matter.

Enterprises will increasingly consider multiple AI models rather than assume one model should handle every business requirement.

Software subscriptions will face closer financial scrutiny.

Perhaps most importantly, AI assistants may increasingly become the interface through which employees interact with enterprise systems.

That shift could redistribute economic power across the technology industry.

The companies controlling applications may not always control the user relationship.

The companies supplying processors may not always control the computing platform.

And the companies providing AI models may not necessarily capture the largest share of enterprise value.

The Real Competitive Advantage Is the Ability to Choose

Technology leadership has never been about selecting the most fashionable platform.

It is about making decisions that enable the business to perform, adapt, and compete.

The next computing revolution will offer organizations more choices than they have had in decades.

But choice alone does not create advantage.

It requires disciplined architecture, financial accountability, commercial awareness, and the willingness to question long-standing assumptions.

I would not advise a CEO to abandon Microsoft, Google, Windows, x86, or any other established technology simply because alternatives are emerging.

I would advise that CEO to understand precisely where the organization depends on those platforms, what that dependence costs, and what credible alternatives exist.

The greatest risk is not choosing the wrong technology. It is building an enterprise that can no longer afford to choose differently.

For boards and CEOs, that may be the most important lesson of the next computing transition.

Where has technology standardization created genuine competitive advantage in your organization, and where has it quietly become a constraint?

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Closing the Accountability Gap in Digital India

Discover how Digital India can evolve from online portals to true outcome-driven governance by closing the digital accountability gap through automated escalation.

Digital India has transformed something fundamental: the way citizens reach government.

Applications can be submitted online. Payments can be made digitally. Documents can be uploaded remotely. Services and grievances can be tracked without starting with a visit to a government office.

That is real progress.

But after three decades of watching technology transformations unfold across large organizations, I have learned to ask a second question once the technology works:

Did we digitize the interface, or did we improve the underlying outcome?

That question now matters for Digital India.

The programme's stated vision has always gone beyond connectivity and portals. “Governance and Services on Demand” is one of Digital India's three core vision areas.

Yet as India's digital-government infrastructure matures, an important gap becomes increasingly visible.

A citizen can complete almost every part of an interaction digitally and still find that, when something goes wrong, accountability becomes manual again.

That is the gap the next phase of digital governance should address.

Digital Access Is a Major Achievement

It is important to begin with what has worked.

India has built digital public infrastructure and government-service platforms at a scale that would have been difficult to imagine two decades ago.

The citizen experience has changed materially.

A process that once began with finding the right office can increasingly begin with opening a website or an app.

That matters.

It saves time, increases traceability, reduces physical paperwork and creates data that administrators can use to understand how services are performing.

It would therefore be wrong to dismiss digitization simply because administrative problems have not disappeared.

In fact, the opposite is true.

Successful digitization is precisely what now makes the next gap easier to see.

The Accountability Gap in Digital Government

Consider a routine citizen interaction.

Someone applies online for a license, certificate, registration, approval, pension or benefit.

The portal accepts the application.

Payment is made.

Documents are uploaded.

Verification takes place.

A reference number is generated.

The dashboard says:

Under process.

Then the prescribed or expected deadline passes.

At this point, something interesting happens.

The digital system may already know when the application was submitted. It may know when documents were received. It may know which department or administrative stage is handling the case. And it can know that the service timeline has expired.

But the burden of responding to that failure can shift back to the citizen.

Call the helpline.

Send an email.

Find the appropriate official.

Visit the office.

Register a grievance.

Follow up on the grievance.

The front end is digital, while the exception-management process can revert to manual citizen intervention.

That is the accountability gap.

We Should Distinguish Digitization from Transformation

This distinction is not unique to government.

I have seen it repeatedly in enterprise technology programmes.

A company replaces paper forms with an application but leaves the underlying approval structure untouched.

It moves infrastructure to the cloud but preserves the same operating model.

It installs a new workflow platform while keeping the same unclear decision rights.

Technically, something has changed.

Operationally, surprisingly little has.

Government digitisation faces the same risk.

Putting an existing administrative process online can improve access enormously, but it does not automatically reform the process itself.

The conventional wisdom often equates more digital services with greater digital maturity.

I would challenge that.

A better measure of maturity is whether digitisation changes the outcome, not merely the channel.

Are We Measuring Transactions or Citizen Outcomes?

Digital programmes naturally produce measurable numbers.

Applications submitted.

Transactions completed.

Services online.

Users registered.

Grievances disposed.

Turnaround times.

These are important management measures.

But the citizen experiences something else.

Was the licence issued?

Was the pension received?

Was the certificate corrected?

Was the problem actually resolved?

Did the citizen have to visit an office despite completing everything online?

Was the service delivered within the promised time?

This distinction can be seen even within India's increasingly sophisticated grievance-redressal system.

CPGRAMS has undergone significant reforms. The prescribed grievance resolution timeline has been reduced to 21 days, and the average disposal time for Central ministries and departments had fallen to 13 days in 2026 as of July 15.

That is meaningful progress.

But another government data point illustrates why outcome measurement matters. Between January 2025 and February 2026, feedback was available for approximately six lakh resolved grievances, of which 69.8% were rated satisfactory by complainants.

The two measures tell us different things.

One measures administrative processing.

The other gets closer to the citizen's experience of resolution.

A mature digital-government system should increasingly understand both.

So, What Should Come Next?

This is where I believe there is an opportunity.

Not because accountability must automatically be declared the “next phase” of Digital India.

But because the infrastructure already created makes a stronger form of accountability increasingly possible.

If a digital system knows that a service commitment has not been met, why should its role end at displaying that fact?

Perhaps the next logical step is to design accountability into the workflow itself.

I would describe that principle as:

Accountability by Default.

It could be built around five ideas.

1. Make Service Timelines Explicit

For notified, time-bound services, both the citizen and the administration should be able to see when the service clock began and when the commitment is due.

“Under process” should not obscure whether a deadline has already expired.

2. Establish Clear Digital Ownership

The system should know which administrative authority or workflow stage currently owns the next action.

This does not require turning every public portal into an employee directory.

It requires institutional ownership to be traceable.

A pending case should not disappear into an organizational abstraction.

3. Let the System Detect and Escalate Delays

This is potentially the most meaningful change.

Where rules provide a defined service timeline, a breach could trigger the next appropriate step automatically rather than requiring the citizen to initiate another process.

The workflow becomes:

Application → Deadline → Delay Detected → Escalation

instead of:

Application → Delay → Citizen Follows Up → Citizen Complains → Citizen Follows Up Again

4. Require Meaningful Reasons for Delay

Once a prescribed timeline has expired, a generic status such as “under process” provides little value.

If additional citizen action is required, say so.

If verification is incomplete, show it.

If another authority is involved, identify the stage.

If additional time is legitimately required, record the reason.

Transparency does not mean every delay is unjustified.

It means unexplained delay should become harder.

5. Measure Outcomes, Not Disposal Alone

Management dashboards could increasingly distinguish between services delivered on time, services completed after escalation, cases pending beyond timelines, appeals, justified rejections, and citizen satisfaction.

A statement such as:

98% of applications disposed

tells us something.

A dashboard showing how many were delivered on time, how many required escalations, and whether the citizen considered the matter resolved tells us much more.

India Already Has Evidence That This Approach Is Possible

This idea is not purely theoretical.

Haryana's Auto Appeal System provides an instructive example.

DARPG documentation describes a system integrated with the Antyodaya SARAL platform in which failure by a designated officer to provide a notified service within the stipulated timeframe can generate an automatic appeal and escalate it to higher authorities. The stated objective is either satisfactory delivery of the service or fixing responsibility for the failure.

That changes a fundamental piece of the process.

The traditional model is:

Deadline missed → citizen must act.

The alternative is:

Deadline missed → system recognizes the exception and acts.

That does not mean one state's model can simply be copied across every service, department and jurisdiction.

But it demonstrates that accountability can be incorporated into digital workflow design.

Automatic Accountability Does Not Mean Automatic Approval

There is an important counter-argument.

Government decisions are often complex.

A license may require verification.

A case may involve another department.

A statutory process may require consultation.

Legal proceedings may intervene.

The applicant may not have supplied necessary information.

Even CPGRAMS recognizes that some grievances exceed normal timelines because of complexity, interdepartmental consultation, legal proceedings or detailed verification.

So automatic escalation should not mean automatic approval.

Nor should every missed deadline automatically be treated as official misconduct.

The better principle is:

Make exceptions visible, explainable and accountable.

If the citizen must act, notify them.

If an external dependency exists, record it.

If the timeline can legitimately be extended, explain why.

If no valid reason exists, trigger the appropriate escalation.

Technology is particularly well suited to managing these kinds of workflow rules precisely.

The Next Question for Digital India

Digital India has already demonstrated that government services can be made dramatically more accessible through technology.

That achievement creates the foundation for a more ambitious question.

Can the same digital architecture that records the citizen's obligations also strengthen the government's obligation to deliver?

Can it detect where applications become stuck?

Can it make service timelines meaningful?

Can it reduce unnecessary visits and follow-ups?

Can it distinguish administrative disposal from actual resolution?

Can it make institutional ownership clearer?

And, where appropriate, can it trigger accountability without waiting for a citizen to demand it?

This is why I see Accountability by Default not as criticism of Digital India, but as a possible next step made feasible by Digital India's success.

The next decade need not be judged only by how many more government processes become digital.

A more meaningful benchmark may be:

How reliably does digital government deliver the outcome the citizen came for?

Because ultimately, citizens do not experience Digital India as infrastructure.

They experience it when they need something from government.

And if digital systems can make that interaction not only easier to initiate but also more predictable, transparent, and accountable to complete, digitization moves much closer to genuine governance transformation.

If a government system already knows that its own service deadline has been missed, should the citizen still have to tell it?

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Sanjay K Mohindroo

A boardroom seat is not the same as influence. Discover five tests that help CIOs earn credibility through business judgment, capital discipline, and accountability.

Earning a Real Seat at the Board Table, not a Token One

The boardroom does not need another technology presentation. It needs leaders who can influence decisions about capital, risk, growth, and the business's future.

A CIO can manage a $200 million technology budget and still have no meaningful influence over a $2 billion business decision.

That is the difference between being invited into the boardroom and earning a seat at the table.

Across nearly three decades of working with enterprises, executive teams, and boards, I have come to appreciate an uncomfortable reality: proximity to power is not the same as influence.

You can attend every board meeting, present polished dashboards, and answer every question about cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. Yet when the discussion turns to acquisitions, market expansion, capital allocation, or competitive positioning, your contribution may become surprisingly limited.

The conventional wisdom says CIOs need greater board representation because technology has become central to business strategy.

I disagree with the premise.

Technology's importance may justify an invitation. It does not automatically justify influence.

That must be earned.

The CIO Boardroom Problem: Presence Without Influence

Consider a familiar boardroom situation.

An enterprise is evaluating a major expansion. The investment involves new markets, operating capacity, customer acquisition, and potentially hundreds of millions in capital commitments.

The CFO discusses financial exposure. The CEO outlines strategic opportunity. The business leaders assess demand and execution risk.

The CIO is asked whether the technology infrastructure can support the expansion.

That question reveals the problem.

Technology leadership has been reduced to confirming whether someone else's strategy can be implemented.

The more valuable contribution would have come earlier: challenging whether the proposed operating model is economically sound, identifying where technology changes the investment thesis, and explaining how different choices affect margins, speed, and risk.

A leader who answers only the infrastructure question may be respected as an operator.

A leader who changes the investment decision becomes a strategic contributor.

Why Technical Excellence Is Not Enough

For years, technology leaders were encouraged to become more business-oriented.

Learn finance. Understand operations. Speak the language of the CEO. Translate technology into business value.

All sensible advice.

But it misses something fundamental.

Boards do not reward business vocabulary. They reward judgment.

Knowing what EBITDA means is not the same as understanding how a proposed investment will affect it.

Explaining the benefits of AI is not the same as recommending which AI investments should be funded, delayed, or abandoned.

Presenting cybersecurity maturity scores is not the same as helping directors decide how much risk the enterprise should retain.

The distinction is accountability.

A strategic leader must be prepared to make recommendations that have consequences, including recommendations that may be unpopular within the technology function itself.

Sometimes that means arguing against a fashionable technology investment.

Sometimes it means acknowledging that an existing platform has become an expensive constraint.

And sometimes it means telling the CEO that the organization is not operationally ready for the transformation it wants to announce.

The Five Tests of Genuine Boardroom Influence

I believe technology leaders should assess their boardroom relevance against five practical tests.

1. The Capital Allocation Test

Can you explain where the next dollar of investment will generate the greatest business return?

A technology leader seeking genuine influence must be able to compare competing uses of capital.

Should the enterprise modernize its core systems, invest in customer experience, strengthen resilience, or pursue AI-enabled productivity?

The answer cannot simply be that all four are important.

Boards make choices under constraints. Strategic leaders must do the same.

Every major technology proposal should explain expected returns, alternatives considered, downside exposure, and the cost of doing nothing.

2. The Enterprise Risk Test

Can you describe technology risk in terms the board can actually govern?

Boards need more than vulnerability counts, compliance percentages, or security maturity assessments.

They need to understand potential financial losses, operational disruption, regulatory consequences, and reputational damage.

For example, the important question is not whether a recovery system has passed its latest technical test.

It is whether the enterprise can withstand a prolonged interruption to its most profitable business process.

That is a conversation about business continuity and risk appetite, not infrastructure.

3. The Competitive Advantage Test

Can you identify where technology genuinely differentiates the business?

Not every technology investment creates competitive advantage.

Many are necessary simply to remain operational or competitive.

A modern cloud environment may improve flexibility. It does not automatically create a stronger market position.

The strategic question is whether an investment allows the company to acquire customers more efficiently, improve pricing power, enter markets faster, or operate at a structurally lower cost.

If competitors can purchase essentially the same capability tomorrow, the board should question how durable the advantage really is.

4. The Strategic Challenge Test

Are you willing to challenge a business decision before it becomes an expensive commitment?

This may be the most uncomfortable test.

A genuine boardroom contributor does not merely validate executive assumptions.

Imagine an acquisition justified partly by expected operational synergies.

Before approval, technology leadership should help determine whether those synergies are realistic, what integration will cost, and how quickly the combined business can operate effectively.

If the assumptions are weak, the responsibility is to say so.

Not after the transaction closes.

Before the capital is committed.

5. The Accountability Test

Will you accept ownership of business outcomes rather than technology milestones?

Delivering a system on time is an accomplishment.

But if the system fails to improve productivity, revenue, customer experience, or risk exposure, the enterprise has not necessarily achieved the intended value.

Technology leaders must distinguish between what they directly control and what they jointly own with business executives.

That means agreeing on measurable outcomes, establishing shared accountability, and returning to the board with evidence of actual results.

Not just implementation success.

What a Board-Ready Technology Conversation Looks Like

Consider a hypothetical global manufacturer operating across four continents.

Management proposes a $60 million modernization program, expecting annual savings of $15 million once fully implemented.

A conventional technology presentation might emphasize architecture, delivery timelines, vendor selection, and migration milestones.

A board-ready discussion would begin differently.

What portion of the $15 million is independently validated? How much depends on business units changing their operating practices? What happens if benefits arrive two years late? What alternatives could produce comparable returns with less capital?

The CIO might recommend funding only the first $15 million, releasing subsequent investment against measurable operational outcomes.

That recommendation could be more valuable than approving the entire program.

It demonstrates commercial judgment, disciplined capital allocation, and a willingness to make technology investment conditional on business performance.

The figures are illustrative, but the distinction is important.

Boards do not need technology leaders to defend technology spending. They need them to improve investment decisions.

The Board Has Responsibilities Too

There is an important counterargument.

Some technology leaders are excluded from strategic discussions because boards and CEOs continue to treat technology as a support function.

That problem is real.

A CIO cannot meaningfully influence acquisition strategy if invited only after the acquisition has been approved.

Nor can technology leadership challenge capital allocation when the investment assumptions are withheld.

Boards must create conditions for informed challenge.

That includes involving relevant executives early, providing access to strategic information, and encouraging disagreement before decisions become irreversible.

But the responsibility is reciprocal.

Access creates an opportunity to demonstrate judgment. It does not establish credibility by itself.

And a seat at the table should not become an entitlement attached to a job title.

How CEOs and Boards Can Test Real Influence

At the next strategy or investment review, I would suggest three simple questions.

First, which material business decision has technology leadership changed, and why?

Second, what major investment has the technology leader recommended against?

Third, which measurable enterprise outcome is that leader jointly accountable for delivering?

If the answers are unclear, the organization may have achieved technology representation without achieving strategic influence.

That is not necessarily a failure of the individual. It may reflect how the executive team distributes responsibility.

But it is a gap that deserves attention.

The Seat Is Earned Through Decisions, Not Designations

The debate about whether CIOs deserve a seat at the board table is becoming increasingly outdated.

Technology is already inseparable from growth, efficiency, resilience, and competitive advantage.

The more important question is whether technology leaders are prepared to accept the broader responsibilities that come with strategic influence.

That requires commercial understanding, independent judgment, intellectual honesty, and accountability for outcomes.

It also requires the confidence to recommend doing less when doing less is the better business decision.

After all, the objective is not to become the most influential technology executive in the room.

It is to help the enterprise make better decisions.

A token seat gives you visibility. A real seat gives your judgment consequences.

And that difference matters far more than where your name appears on the boardroom seating plan.

What, in your experience, separates executives who attend board meetings from those who genuinely influence the decisions made there?

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What can Hindu philosophy teach us about AI ethics, consciousness, accountability, and building a sustainable Human-AI equilibrium?

What Ancient Indian Philosophy Can Teach Us About AI

A few years ago, an AI conversation would have been about algorithms, data, chips, and computing power.

Today, one of the world's leading AI companies is reportedly flying a Hindu monk to San Francisco to discuss morality, consciousness, and how an AI system should behave.

That should make every CEO and board member pause.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, invited Swami Sarvapriyananda, a Vedanta monk, to its headquarters for private discussions on AI ethics, morality, consciousness, and Claude's training. According to NDTV, the discussions also brought together thinkers from other religious traditions and specialists in areas such as mental health.

The obvious reaction is to ask: Why Hindu philosophy?

I think that is the wrong first question.

The better question is: 

What can a 2,000-year-old philosophical tradition contribute to a problem that Silicon Valley cannot solve with engineering alone?

And that question takes us somewhere much more interesting.

The conventional wisdom is wrong

The conventional wisdom says AI alignment is primarily a technology problem.

Make the model safer. Add guardrails. Improve testing. Control the agents. Monitor the outputs. Keep a human in the loop.

All of that matters.

But none of it answers the most fundamental question:

Aligned to what?

Humanity doesn't have one universally accepted definition of morality, purpose, responsibility, or even consciousness.

AI is therefore exposing a problem that technology has largely avoided: we have become very good at building powerful tools without reaching agreement about what those tools should ultimately serve.

That is why philosophy has suddenly become relevant to the AI conversation.

And this is where Indian philosophical traditions deserve a closer look.

Not because they are "more advanced" than other religions.

Not because ancient India secretly possessed modern science.

And certainly not because Hindu philosophy has all the answers.

The reason is simpler.

Some Indian philosophical traditions spent extraordinary intellectual effort examining questions about consciousness, selfhood, knowledge, perception, action, responsibility, and the purpose of human existence.

Those happen to be precisely the questions AI is now forcing back onto the boardroom table.

Don't confuse philosophy with technology

There is a dangerous leap that should be avoided.

Ancient India made important contributions to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and other fields. Classical Indian philosophical traditions also developed sophisticated theories of knowledge and cognition. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes Indian epistemology as a rich tradition spanning almost twenty centuries, with competing schools developing detailed theories of how knowledge is generated and justified.

That is historical fact.

It does not mean ancient India had artificial intelligence, modern physics, aviation, or nuclear technology.

Claims like that require evidence, not cultural pride.

The more interesting proposition is different:

A civilization does not need to have invented modern technology for its philosophy to become relevant to modern technology.

That distinction matters.

Why consciousness changes the conversation

Consider the question Anthropic reportedly explored with religious and philosophical thinkers:

Could increasingly sophisticated AI systems become conscious?

We do not have a settled scientific answer.

And intelligence is not the same thing as consciousness.

A system can produce extraordinary language, reason through complex problems, recognize patterns, and behave as though it understands something without establishing that it possesses subjective experience.

Advaita Vedanta offers a radically different starting point.

In Advaita, consciousness is not simply a property attached to a physical organism. The tradition identifies the deepest self, Atman, with Brahman, ultimate reality, and treats consciousness as fundamental to what a person is.

You don't have to accept that metaphysics to see its relevance.

It forces a question modern AI discussions sometimes skip:

Are we assuming that intelligence and consciousness are the same thing?

If they are different, then building increasingly intelligent machines does not automatically bring us closer to building conscious machines.

That distinction could become enormously important.

The first principle: Dharma, not delegation

For business leaders, one of the most useful concepts is dharma, broadly understood as duty, responsibility, and right conduct, although its meaning varies considerably across Indian traditions and contexts.

AI is rapidly changing who performs work.

That does not answer who owns the outcome.

Imagine an enterprise workflow in which:

1.   One AI agent researches.

2.   Another analyzes.

3.   A third recommends.

4.   A fourth executes.

The workflow can be almost completely autonomous.

But accountability cannot be autonomous.

Someone still has to own the consequence.

That gives boards a simple principle:

AI can inherit execution. It cannot inherit accountability.

This becomes especially important as agentic AI moves into underwriting, finance, healthcare, security, procurement, compliance, and customer decisions.

The question for the board should not simply be, "Can the agent perform the task?"

It should be:

"Who is accountable when the agent is wrong?"

That is a dharma question expressed in modern corporate language.

The second principle: Karma means looking beyond the KPI

Karma is frequently reduced to the phrase "what goes around comes around."

The deeper idea is about action and consequence.

That has enormous relevance to AI economics.

A company deploys AI and cuts operating costs by 20 percent.

The spreadsheet looks excellent.

But what happened underneath?

Did the company also lose experienced employees?

Did institutional knowledge walk out the door?

Did junior employees lose opportunities to learn?

Did managers become dependent on systems they don't understand?

Did customers receive faster service but less human judgment?

Did the organization become more efficient and less resilient at the same time?

The immediate financial result is one part of the story.

The second-order consequences are the other part.

So, a board should add another question to every major AI investment:

What consequences are we creating that aren't appearing in the ROI calculation?

That is a very different way of measuring transformation.

The third principle: Ahimsa and the hidden cost of efficiency

Ahimsa, commonly associated with non-harming, provides another useful lens.

The obvious interpretation is physical harm.

For AI governance, the broader interpretation is more interesting.

What if harm is cognitive?

What happens when people stop remembering because AI remembers for them?

What happens when employees stop learning because AI produces the answer?

What happens when executives stop challenging assumptions because the dashboard looks authoritative?

What happens when organizations eliminate entry-level roles and then discover five years later that they no longer have a pipeline of experienced professionals?

These are not necessarily AI failures.

They are AI deployment failures.

Technology can make a process more efficient while making the organization weaker.

That is why the right objective isn't maximum automation.

It is optimal augmentation.

The fourth principle: Aparigraha and the question of "enough"

This may be the most uncomfortable idea for the technology industry.

Aparigraha, often translated as non-possessiveness or restraint in accumulation, challenges the assumption that more is always better.

AI strategy currently rewards more:

More automation.

More agents.

More data.

More compute.

More intelligence.

More processes automated.

But should a company automate everything it can?

No.

The relevant question is:

What should we automate?

Some activities are repetitive and should probably disappear.

Others develop judgment, institutional knowledge, relationships, creativity, and leadership.

Those may need to remain human even when AI could technically perform them.

The objective should therefore not be:

"How many humans can we remove?"

It should be:

"How much human capability can we create?"

That is a radically different AI strategy.

The fifth principle: Viveka, the discipline of discernment

There may be no more important human capability in the AI era than discernment.

AI can produce an answer in seconds.

That does not make the answer true.

Classical Indian philosophy developed extensive debates around pramāṇa, or legitimate means of knowledge, asking how cognition becomes justified and how genuine knowledge can be distinguished from error. Nyāya, in particular, developed detailed theories concerning perception, inference, testimony, and false cognition.

That is remarkably relevant to generative AI.

We are entering a world where machines can produce plausible explanations faster than humans can verify them.

The scarce resource will not be information.

It will be judgment about information.

Boards should therefore ask a different question when evaluating AI adoption:

Are we increasing the organization's intelligence, or merely increasing the volume of machine-generated information?

Those are not the same thing.

The sixth principle: Loka Sangraha and the purpose of automation

There is another idea worth bringing into the conversation: loka sangraha, broadly associated with sustaining social order and acting for the welfare of the larger community.

This creates a useful challenge to purely cost-driven AI transformation.

Suppose two companies achieve the same financial benefit.

Company A uses AI primarily to eliminate labor costs.

Company B uses AI to increase employee productivity, retrain its workforce, and redirect people toward higher-value activities.

The financial spreadsheets may look similar.

The societal consequences are not.

For boards, the question becomes:

Does our AI strategy strengthen the system in which our company operates?

Employees are part of that system.

Customers are part of it.

Communities are part of it.

Suppliers are part of it.

The workforce we are training today may be the leadership pipeline we need tomorrow.

A practical framework for boards

None of this requires a board to become a scholar of Vedanta.

The ideas can be converted into six practical questions.

1. Dharma: Who owns the outcome?

For every autonomous AI process, identify the human executive accountable for the result.

2. Karma: What are the second-order consequences?

Measure not only cost savings, but workforce, customer, knowledge, resilience, and reputational effects.

3. Ahimsa: What capabilities could we unintentionally damage?

Identify cognitive, organizational, and human harms created by excessive automation.

4. Aparigraha: What is enough automation?

Do not automate simply because technology makes automation possible.

5. Viveka: How will humans challenge machine-generated knowledge?

Build verification and judgment into critical decisions rather than treating AI output as authority.

6. Loka Sangraha: Does AI strengthen the larger ecosystem?

Evaluate whether the transformation builds sustainable organizational and societal capability.

This is not a religious governance framework.

It is a human governance framework inspired by philosophical ideas.

Does this prove ancient India was scientifically more advanced?

No.

And we should resist that temptation.

Ancient India undeniably produced major intellectual achievements. Indian traditions contributed to mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine, and philosophy, and the historical development of science on the subcontinent is well documented.

But saying that ancient Indian thinkers developed sophisticated theories of consciousness does not prove that they anticipated modern neuroscience.

Likewise, recognizing the sophistication of Indian mathematics does not mean ancient India possessed modern physics.

The stronger argument is more subtle.

Ancient Indian intellectual traditions may have explored some dimensions of the human mind and human conduct with a depth that modern technological civilization has not always prioritized.

And AI is forcing those dimensions back into the conversation.

The real opportunity

The future of AI will not be decided only by engineers.

It will be shaped by philosophers, psychologists, economists, ethicists, religious thinkers, policymakers, executives, and ultimately society.

That is why Anthropic's reported engagement with religious and philosophical thinkers matters. It suggests that the AI industry is beginning to recognize a fundamental limitation of pure engineering: you can build an extraordinarily capable machine without answering what that capability should ultimately serve.

Hindu philosophy does not have the answer.

Neither does Christianity.

Neither does Buddhism.

Neither does Western philosophy.

No single tradition does.

But perhaps the future requires us to stop looking for one answer.

Instead, we should build a global conversation around the oldest questions humanity has asked about consciousness, responsibility, knowledge, restraint, purpose, and the good society.

That is the real opportunity.

The objective should not be to make machines more human.

Nor should it be to make humans more machine-like.

The objective should be to build a society in which machines amplify human capability without eroding human agency, judgment, responsibility, and purpose.

That is what I would call Human-AI equilibrium.

And perhaps the irony of the AI revolution is this:

The more intelligent our machines become, the more seriously we may have to ask what it actually means to be human.

Do you believe ancient philosophical traditions have a meaningful role to play in shaping the future of AI, or should we leave questions of AI ethics entirely to modern science and technology?

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