India became the world's largest market for generative AI app downloads in 2025, according to market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, widening its lead over the U.S. as installs jumped 207% year-over-year. Companies including OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity rolled out extended free premium offers to accelerate user growth in the price sensitive market.
"The potential use of large language models (LLMs) to simulate human cognition and behavior has been heralded as an upcoming paradigm shift in psychological and social science research," wrote lead author Eric Mayor, PhD, a senior researcher at the University of Basel, in collaboration with Lucas Bietti, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Adrian Bangerter, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Neuchâtel.
That tagline is lazy and dangerous. The bigger truth is that AI will expose managers who play it safe, cling to spreadsheets, and ignore what makes them truly human. The best managers don't get outmaneuvered by AI, they use it as a force multiplier. And that doesn't necessarily mean leaders who are fluent in technical jargon. It means managers who double down on what machines can't replicate: judgment, trust, and wisdom.