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Oct 11

The Principle of Least Intelligence: How Much AI Does the Work Need?

In the boardrooms where I discuss AI strategy, AI often means generative AI, and the conversation eventually arrives at a decision about…

The Principle of Least Intelligence: How Much AI Does the Work Need?

Mario Thomas

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Oct 4

Managers Own the Workflow: Where the AI Business Case Becomes Real

In Governing the Redeployment Dividend I set out who owns what when AI enters an organisation: AI owns the execution of the work, managers…

Managers Own the Workflow: Where the AI Business Case Becomes Real

Mario Thomas

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Sep 27

The Supplier Grades the Customer: What Pacing the Frontier Means for the Organisations That Buy It

This month Anthropic’s chief executive, Dario Amodei, published an essay arguing that the frontier laboratories must slow the rate at which…

The Supplier Grades the Customer: What Pacing the Frontier Means for the Organisations That Buy It

Mario Thomas

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Sep 20

Nothing Has to Leave the Building: The AI Risk That Is Not a Data Breach

This month some of the most sophisticated buyers of AI in the world started limiting what they send to it. The Information reported on 14…

Nothing Has to Leave the Building: The AI Risk That Is Not a Data Breach

Mario Thomas

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Aug 29

The Debugging Gap: A Board-Level Exposure

In January, The Verification Premium made a prediction. The value of software expertise would not fall as AI wrote more of the code; it…

The Debugging Gap: A Board-Level Exposure

Mario Thomas

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Aug 9

The Deadline Moved: What the EU AI Act Deferral Reveals About Boards

The EU AI Act was written to govern the artificial intelligence systems that make consequential decisions about people: the software that…

The Deadline Moved: What the EU AI Act Deferral Reveals About Boards

Mario Thomas

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Jul 26

The Balancing Item: The AI Oversight Cost Your Business Case Never Priced

Every AI business case celebrates the hours saved. Automation of drafting, summarising, analysis, and correspondence arrives at the Board…

The Balancing Item: The AI Oversight Cost Your Business Case Never Priced

Mario Thomas

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Jul 19

Governing the Redeployment Dividend: Turning Saved Hours Into Value

Teams that deploy AI save the equivalent of five hours per person per week, according to research by Gartner, and most of that time is then…

Governing the Redeployment Dividend: Turning Saved Hours Into Value

Mario Thomas

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Jul 12

Not Everything Needs AI: The Questions That Come Before the Decision

Last month at the IoD Chartered Director Conference, on a panel about governing AI, an audience member asked how I decide which AI to use…

Not Everything Needs AI: The Questions That Come Before the Decision

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Jun 21

AI and the CEO: Choosing the Bets That Matter

According to IBM’s 2026 CEO Study, 69% of chief executives say AI is already changing what they consider core to their business. The market…

AI and the CEO: Choosing the Bets That Matter

Mario Thomas

Mario Thomas

AI & Emerging Technology Strategist. How boards govern what AI is doing to work. Head of Applied AI & Emerging Technology Strategy, AWS. Opinions my own.

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