What Boards Get Wrong About AI Strategy and What to Ask Instead

Written By Christopher Sanchez

If you serve on a board and your AI strategy consists of quarterly updates from the CTO, you have a tech review disguised as a strategy. Boards don't need to understand transformer architectures. But they do need to be able to answer:

- What is AI's role in our competitive positioning over the next decade?

-What are the material risks: operational, reputational, regulatory, and who owns them?

-Are we building durable capabilities or renting temporary advantages?

-How does our AI investment thesis hold up if the regulatory environment shifts?

These are strategy questions. They belong in the boardroom, not delegated to a technology committee.

Christopher Sanchez

https://www.christophersanchez.ai
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