🚀 ChangeNOW 2026 : Artificial Intelligence vs Poetic Intelligence 🏞️

At ChangeNOW 2026 we explored the world of “Who Does AI Serve?” with Dr. Sasha Luccioni 🦋 AI & Climate Lead Hugging Face, Tim Christophersen Vice President, Climate Action Salesforce, Vincent Avanzi, Chief Poetic Officer, The Ink of the Future, moderated by James Martin. Thanks to Antonia Mehnert Maëlle Bousquié and Santiago Lefebvre.

We discussed AI’s impact on planet and society. Please discover below the poetic speech on AI vs PI (Artificial Intelligence vs Poetic Intelligence) to see how those two types of intelligence could intertwine together to create a sustainable future ! 🌍

Poetic Speech :
AI vs PI The Resistance of Poetic Intelligence

Gandhi said “be the change you want to see in the world”,
I think it’s time to be, not just the change, but the “lasting” change
we want to build in this world, in the name of love.

Artificial Intelligence is becoming smarter every week.
So the real question is: are we?

What is intelligence if it forgets the living?
What is performance without presence?
What is scaling up if our spirits are « souling » down?

AI calculates faster than us.
Optimizes better than us.
Predicts us, sometimes before us,
But there is one thing AI cannot do.

It cannot care.
It cannot tremble in front of beauty.
It cannot hesitate before a moral choice.
It cannot see tomorrow in the eyes of a child.

That’s… Poetic Intelligence.
Not decoration, but direction.
Not luxury, but responsibility and sensitive creativity.

Inside Poetry, there’s the word TRY
Inside Humanity there’s the hidden letters of UNITY.
Inside Prosperity lies the magical letters of… POETRY.

Poetry may be the key to a sustainable and balanced prosperity
Just as Poetic Intelligence can be a form of Resistance for our Humanity.

If AI is power. PI is purpose.
If AI accelerates. PI elevates.
When AI executes. PI chooses.
When AI calculates. PI connects.
Where AI serves targets. PI serves life.

And life is not a metric. It’s poetic!
It’s not a KPI, unless it measures our Key Poetic Impact.
Life is the reference of our existence and interdependence
And to the living we owe our reverence and pledge alliance.

“Sustainability” might no longer be a strategy, or a score on a card.
It’s actually more a civilizational capability, meaning our collective capacity
to remain compatible with the living over time, inside the planetary boundaries.

Jules Verne reminded us:
“Humanity is intelligent, not to dominate nature, but to understand it.
If technology is intelligent, let it under-stand before it over-powers.

The most advanced technology remains wisdom.
Innovation must evolve from “Can we do this?” to “Should this exist?”
From extraction to regeneration.
From performance to responsibility and decency.
From profit alone to prosperity for the living as a whole.

And that’s the definition of what we could call “Soulful business”
Where success becomes synonymous with human progress.

In other words, “Make poetry, not war”
And put harmony in your words.
If some choose every morning the love of power,
We can still choose this evening the power of love!

Yes 8 billion people still capable of a positive evolution of mankind
Towards collaboration across the globe.

So the real question is not “What can AI do?”
But « Who does AI serve?« 
Shareholders only or stakeholders,
Human and non human, present and future?

Artificial Intelligence may expand our power.
But Poetic Intelligence keeps us whole and caring for each other.
So let us poetize AI before it standardizes us.

The next competitive advantage won’t be technological, but ethical.
Poetic Intelligence is our sacred human touch, our infinite creative flow,
Our unconditional love quotient, our pure compassionate link, our genuine sense of kindness,
That’s what’s magical with our essential human potential.

Let us design AI that serves Humanity, the Living and the long run.
And maybe, could we succeed thereafter in making “AI + PI” a more beautiful duet?
Power WITH purpose. Technology FOR humanity. Calculation AND imagination.

The future may need fewer processors…and many more poets.
Poets of science. Poets of business. Poets of politics. Poets of life.
In order to continue to hope to live on a more wonderful and peaceful planet,
With poetic leaders and natural wonders on the rise.

So to all leaders and engaged citizens,
By all dreams and all means, follow your heart
And let’s all create a magnificent collective world work of Art-istic Intelligence,
A higher form of AI, as “Artistic Intelligence”

And may the 21th century be the era of a new human Renaissance
Where technology serves life and
Poetic intelligence becomes the new dance of balance and collective abundance.

Thank you and let’s do, not what’s easy but what’s right,
So that we can still feel the love ignite us at night
And the light shine in the path of our lives…

Author : Vincent Avanzi
Chief Poetic Officer – Poet Speaker – Performer

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About the author : Vincent Avanzi is Chief Poetic Officer, poet speaker, executive speech writer, leadership coach, and founder of The Ink of the Future. A former manager at Microsoft, globetrotter, and journalist for Les Echos, he is the author of 10 books, including « Poetic Leaders » (Human Odyssey) and « Finding your Genius Spot » (Hachette). Pioneer in the bridge between poetry and corporations, he has been delivering poetic conferences and performances around the world for over 10 years on leadership, storytelling and sustainability. Based in France and with over 500 references in the Fortune 500 companies across the world, he is a regular Sustainable Brands speaker and was dubbed an « enlightened leader » by Décideurs Magazine. His conviction: poetry is a fantastic tool for unleashing talent, engaging teams, and enhancing the future. His mission: to re-enchant organizations to bring soulfulness and create desire, purpose and dreams, for a sustainable prosperity. He lately cofounded the « Poetry in Business Coalition » to gather corporate poets around the world and he dedicates his time to the prosperity and sustainability duet by designing new visions for the future, rediscovering the notion of beauty and elevating to a form of poetic and pragmatic leadership inside organizations.