Editorial: Why AI Is Taking Seats on Company Boards
From Deep Knowledge Ventures’ Vital to Aiden Insight 2.0, AI-powered, on-premise “board observers” have become increasingly common in conference rooms around the world. When humans differ with AI colleagues, whose opinion should prevail?
That is the question posed by the CXOtoday News Desk in a recent blog post, “What Happens When AI Sits on Company Boards?” Editors cite a recent Mack Institute study that gives AI the edge over humans. Board observers, originally intended to perform menial tasks and produce datasets, scored high in such metrics as decision implementability and director preparation.
“Human boards scored markedly lower across all eight criteria, with AI and expert evaluators consistently harsher than the self-assessments of human participants,” they write.
