21 Things Artificial Intelligence Can’t Do Authentically for You or Your People
- Richard McNeal
- Mar 3
- 1 min read
Recent events have many leaders questioning whether or not they will have relevance in the future. Rest assured, we need people-first leaders now more than ever. Here are 21 things that AI cannot do—authentically—for you or your people.

Build trust
Foster community
Care about your people
Empathize
Offer purpose, mission, and vision
Champion your values
Create or change a culture
Inspire a team
Lead
Listen to intuition
Read between the lines
Experience synergy
Look past numbers and see potential
Make your people feel known
Make your people feel like they belong
Use integrity
Hold people accountable
Solve disputes and/or reconcile differences
Have fun
Understand work–life balance
Know when to break the rules and make an exception
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help us get to where we’re going, but it can never lead us there. People are first.
