Umesh Ramakrishnan is the co-founder of Kingsley Gate, a native-AI global executive search firm operating in 50 countries. He has spent three decades placing the world's most consequential leaders at the intersection of technology, talent, and transformation.
He is a published Penguin Random House author. His first book, There's No Elevator to the Top, draws on interviews with more than 70 senior executives about the unwritten rules of reaching the highest levels of organizational leadership.
He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Fortune as a commentator on artificial intelligence, the future of work, and the displacement of human judgment by machine systems. He has been quoted and cited across broadcast, digital, and print media on the structural shift AI is driving across the global economy.
The Obsolete Human is his debut novel. It is drawn from a decade of conversations with the executives who are building, deploying, and quietly worrying about AI systems at scale. The threat architecture in the book is fictional. The logic behind it is not.