AI is the number one stated reason for layoffs in 2026, and the people being cut rarely get a vote. Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, lived through the last wave of this fear in 1980s Bahrain and explains what protected people then and what protects you now.
Full episode: https://www.leadershipsovereignty.com/ep193
CHAPTERS
00:00 Please Save Our Jobs
00:42 Why AI Licenses Do Not Make a Company Better
04:40 What Non-Technical Leaders Must Understand About AI
06:40 The Harness, the Magic Box, and Hiring People Back
10:13 Growing Up With Computers in 1980s Bahrain
12:16 Shipped Out: When Computers Came for Jobs
14:30 The Living Room Computer Lab
16:42 Teaching Classmates and Physicians Today
19:27 AI Is Not a Physician
23:52 Your Responsibility to Learn It and Bring Others Along
This episode closes our series of conversations with Sai Prakash. Hosted by Ralph E. Owens II and Terry Baylor.
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