aceAI has made it to the boardroom – can companies make the most of it?
When Christian Stadler sat in on a recent board meeting, a crucial question was answered in a way that just might predict how companies are run in the future. The quandary was whether it would be more cost effective to renovate an old facility or set up elsewhere. It came down to the maths, but no director could conjure up a figure. There was one source that could, though – AI. Stadler, a professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School (WBS), explains that posing difficult questions that executives…
In one observed board meeting, generative AI supplied an instant cost figure for a renovate-or-relocate decision that was close to the number reached after further investigation.
Directors may over-rely on generative AI and cannot tell whether its advice is good, while the technology cannot be held accountable for decisions it informs.
The evidence for AI's benefit is a single anecdote from one board meeting, and the source notes that directors cannot easily judge whether AI advice is good and that AI answers may not be entirely accurate.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-09
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