India, May 22 -- Intel's former CEO, Andy Grove's famous warning, Only the Paranoid Survive, was meant for businesses navigating strategic inflection points. But in the age of artificial intelligence, paranoia no longer belongs only to corporations or chief executives. It has become a lived experience, the tone, context, and mood of the current age we live in.

AI is making institutions operate in a state of perpetual alert. It is creating a mindset of "fear is the place where we find comfort", meaning our comfort zones, as individuals or as corporations, are done and dusted. They no longer exist. That evolutionary mindset is what separates leaders from laggards. There is a deeper sense that something fundamental is shifting beneath famil...