Ask an Expert: We Are Living in a Time of Profound Change
Professions, businesses, and entire industries are transforming. Some are disappearing, others emerging overnight. Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept — it is already part of our daily routine. In this context of accelerated change, Peter-Vlad Ianusevici is one of the voices looking beyond trends. Not only at technology, but at the human being. Not only at efficiency, but at meaning. We wanted to understand how he now sees artificial intelligence in relation to the field of personal development.
1. Vlad, from what you’ve seen so far, do you believe artificial intelligence can replace a human mentor, trainer, or coach?
I firmly believe it can.
But the more relevant question for me is: should it? After all, we replaced real food with fast food, we replaced conversations with friends with likes on social media…
Maybe we don’t necessarily need to replace personal development with artificial intelligence as well. On the other hand, I am convinced that in the coming years we will witness very serious changes in human nature itself. As with any transformation, some changes will be for the better — others… will be interesting 🙂
2. It’s often said that you can’t fully rely on AI for medical advice. In your field, when should people understand that they cannot depend on AI for guidance?
In my individual coaching sessions, I work with people from the business and institutional sectors who face various challenges. It is hard for me to believe that artificial intelligence will be able to resonate in the same way with someone experiencing burnout. When I personally went through professional burnout, there were days when I struggled just to get out of bed and speak to someone. And when I had to stand in front of an entire group during a training I was leading, I still remember how my entire being felt shattered into hundreds and thousands of fragments. Caught in the space of work, tasks, and obligations, we often overlook personal challenges that can be incredibly difficult to carry: the birth of a child, despite the miracle it brings, or the death of a loved one — these are thresholds of growth that completely reshape our life context.
Artificial intelligence can offer objective and likely effective advice. But I do not believe it can replace my emotional and affective participation in the development process of the person I work with. I believe that we will often rely on artificial intelligence for guidance, yet it will remain limited when we speak about the miracle that can sometimes occur between two or more living beings. That unique connection — built on a word or several words, on a glance or several glances, on a subtle inflection of voice in which we can find the entire human universe, from its beginnings into the future.
3. If we look ahead to Moldova 2053, what would be the ideal relationship between AI and mentorship?
The concept of mentorship first appears in European space about 3,000 years ago in Homer’s works: Mentor was the wise man entrusted by Odysseus with the upbringing of his son while he fought in the Trojan War. Most likely, however, the concept is as old as humanity itself. In my view, the technical future of personal development belongs to artificial intelligence: it will help us learn faster and become more efficient.
The role of the mentor will remain in the realm of the soul — in the space of human consciousness. I believe mentors will, on the contrary, help people learn more slowly but more deeply, become perhaps a little less efficient, yet move in small steps closer to happiness… closer to themselves. And I don’t know why, but I feel like ending these thoughts by recalling the great philosophers of the last century, who simply said: “All you need is love.”
At Summit, we believe in the power of real encounters — in dialogues that cannot be replicated by algorithms, in ideas born from connection, in the energy that appears when people grow together. Technology can help us become faster, more efficient, more informed. But meaning, courage, and deep transformation are still born from human interaction.
The future is built between progress and consciousness.
And we choose to be the space where they meet.