Leading the AI Conversation: A CIO's Guide to Engaging the Board
Heller, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025
AI has quickly become a board-level priority, yet few members have knowledge or experience to make strategic decisions about its use. CIOs can take the lead in educating them. Here's how.
More three-quarters of executives and board members (79%) say their boards have limited, minimal or no knowledge or experience with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a 2024 Deloitte Survey. Just as alarmingly, almost 45% of these respondents say AI is not even on their board's agenda.
That's a problem.
As AI reshapes the competitive landscape, boards are under growing pressure to determine what AI means for their organizations' future. Yet many are ill-equipped to grapple with the strategic, ethical, and operational implications of a broad set of capabilities they barely understand.