India, Oct. 19 -- Hachette chief executive David Shelley has warned that business leaders relying on artificial intelligence to write emails and summarise information risk losing their ability to think independently and communicate authentically.

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Speaking to Fortune, Shelley said AI convenience could come at the expense of leadership skills, including intellectual curiosity and empathy.

"I predict a growing dissonance between how someone appears in their written statements and how they are in real life," Shelley told Fortune.

He argued that executives should remain involved in their communications rather than leave their words to autom...