It’s Time for Boards to Take AI Seriously
Focal level on 5 guiding principles.
November 02, 2023
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The job of a board is to provide protection to shareholders’ interests. Nonetheless because AI is so basically disruptive (strategically, operationally, and competitively), the board has an duty to its shareholders to power and oversee the alternate. To retain your company as relevant tomorrow because it’s right this moment, the time is now on your total board to change into AI-conversant.
As professors, authors, and advisors, we’re fortunate ample to stare board meetings at one of the vital most world’s main companies. Lately, the board of directors for a Fortune 200 financial companies company was as soon as discussing man made intelligence’s (AI) role in their company’s future. They discussed generative AI and its huge skill as a grunt creator and code generator. They discussed AI-related probability, comparable to an employee importing confidential discipline cloth into generative AI. They expressed discipline that AI is transferring too hasty to protect up. The discussion concluded with an settlement on AI being serious to the scurry-forward technique and to delight in an “AI situation update” at each future board meeting.
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David Edelman is an executive adviser and a senior lecturer at Harvard Change School.
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Vivek Sharma helps perform winning companies by digital know-how and knowledge science. He is an Adjunct Professor of files science at the University of Southern California. He serves on the boards of JetBlue Airways and Kaiser Permanente.
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