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Executive AI Outlook

The AI scenario read from the decision-maker's seat. An annual research programme: the first edition is in preparation, and access is requested by email.

Research programme · Edition in preparation

Areas of enquiry

01

Adoption across European boardrooms

How boards of directors across Europe, the United Kingdom included, are integrating AI into their decision processes: who has a policy, who a dedicated committee, who delegates and to whom.

02

A regulatory picture on two tracks

The state of play on each side of the Channel — the UK's principles-based, sector-led approach and the EU AI Act — and its concrete implications for the top: duties in force, duties on the way, grey areas.

03

Priorities for the twelve months

The decisions senior leadership will face in the year ahead, ordered by urgency and reversibility: where to move, where to wait.

Research questions

The questions come before the data.

  • 01

    Which decisions are boards delegating to AI systems, and with what safeguards?

  • 02

    Where does the boundary between human decision and algorithmic delegation run today in European businesses?

  • 03

    Which regulatory duties genuinely bear on the board's agenda over the next twelve months, at home and across the Channel?

  • 04

    Which competences are missing in boardrooms, and how are they being filled?

Method

Primary sources, an executive read.

The report is built on verifiable public data, interviews at senior level and direct observation of the boards the institute works with. Every statement carries a cited source; where the data falls short, the report says so.

Format

Thirty minutes, not three hundred pages.

Theses up front, cited evidence, operational implications at the close. The format is built for the decision-maker's diary: readable in one sitting, discussable in a boardroom.

Access

Request access to the first edition.

Delivery may be accompanied by a private guided-reading session with the institute.