AI isn’t getting smarter, it’s just getting faster at being dumb. In this episode of Agentic: Ethical AI, Leadership, and Human Wisdom, we unpack one of the biggest misconceptions in the tech world today: the difference between reasoning and understanding. From Apple’s “Illusion of Thinking” study to the growing obsession with benchmark-driven intelligence, we trace how corporations are scaling acceleration without steering and what that means for human agency, leadership, and ethics. This conversation goes beyond data. It’s about meaning. It’s about consciousness. And it’s about why true intelligence begins where speed ends. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why “AI reasoning” is often just statistical mimicry. The psychological trap of mistaking confidence for competence. How leadership mirrors the same illusion, optimizing instead of understanding. What “agentic leadership” really means in an automated age. How Exidion is building self-reflective AI grounded in human cognition and moral awareness. Listen if you’re curious about: 1. Ethical AI 2. Conscious leadership 3. Human-centered technology 4. The philosophy of intelligence