Leadership was always about judgment under uncertainty. Now the machine is uncertain, too, with every AI answer arriving as a single number in a confident voice. Re-attaching the odds is the skill LLMs quietly made critical.
Your AI sounds equally sure whether it is right or guessing. That flat confidence is not a quirk; the same training that makes a model agreeable also makes it overconfident. Leadership has always meant deciding before all the facts are in, and the tool used to be the one certain thing on the desk. It just stopped being certain. This is the fourth cognitive lens: reading every answer as one drawn from a distribution, and supplying the calibration that the machine cannot.
