AI values are not created by AI capability alone. 95% of enterprise AI fails to deliver measurable ROI. The real problem is not the technology: it is alignment, leadership, and whether anyone in your organisation has actually defined what value means.In Episode 13 of The AI Values Podcast, Edosa Odaro is joined by data and AI professional Tolu Adebekun, stepping in for regular co-host Lindley Gooden. What follows is a sharp conversation about the gap between what organisations invest in AI and what they actually get back. This episode addresses the core failure of AI organisational alignment: the assumption that capability automatically produces value. It does not. And the downstream consequences, from fragmented organisations to concentrated power in very few hands, are playing out right now across every sector.THIS WEEK: A HEAD-TO-HEAD.

Edosa Odaro and Tolu Adebekun take two angles on one problem: if most AI initiatives fail, and if capability is not the same as value, what exactly is leadership responsible for?► The sliding scale of AI anxiety. Edosa argues that the residual concern most people carry about AI is not about models or benchmarks. It is about relevance: their job, their judgment, their future. This anxiety runs from entry-level workers to the C-suite, and most organisations are managing it badly.► The AI amplification effect. "If you were terrible before, now that you've got AI to magnify that, you're just going to be worse." Tolu names what the data confirms: AI amplification works in both directions. Organisations with strong governance are pulling further ahead. Broken ones are breaking faster.► The biggest misconception in AI. "More capability would automatically mean more value. Unfortunately, it absolutely does not." Edosa draws on the spear analogy to separate capability vs value AI strategy: a pile of spears does not feed your family. Only the outcome does.► Every AI system has AI trade-offs built in, and most leaders have no idea who decided them. Whether you are using Claude, ChatGPT, or a traditional tool, someone has already decided the balance between speed, visibility, automation, and human judgment.► AI power concentration is now the leadership question. Tolu puts it plainly: fewer than 100 people have the influence to build the systems that billions now use. "I don't know a time in the world where we gave a few people lots of power and it went really well." 00:00 - AI Values: What People Are Really Worried About With AI01:17 - AI Governance: The Sliding Scale From Experts to Everyday Workers08:14 - Responsible AI Leadership: When Individual Anxiety Becomes Organisational Risk10:37 - AI Change Management: Why COVID Is the Right Analogy for AI Disruption16:14 - AI Amplification Effect: Why Good Organisations Win More and Broken Ones Break Faster24:53 - Capability vs. Value AI: The Biggest Misconception in AI Explained42:41 - AI Trade-Offs: Already Built Into Every System You Use44:35 - AI Power Concentration: Less Than 100 People Deciding AI for All of Us──────────────────────────────────────ABOUT THE AI VALUES PODCAST:The AI Values Podcast is where leaders come to think clearly about the trade-offs behind AI adoption not just the opportunities. Hosted by Edosa Odaro (author, 'The Values of AI') and Lindley Gooden (author, 'The Future of Truth'), with weekly conversations at the intersection of AI, trust, governance, and the future of work.🎙 SUBSCRIBE to The AI Values Podcast for honest, rigorous conversations at the intersection of AI ethics, AI governance, and business leadership.◼ Find out more: https://www.theaivalues.org ◼ Reach out: podcast@theaivalues.org ◼ Get the Weekly AI Values Dispatch ◼ Co-hosts: Edosa Odaro & Lindley Gooden◼ Special guest: Tolu Adebekun