Five Types Of AI Prep Boards Need

As with any new shift in the tectonic plates of technology, experts are quick to light up your emails with panaceas to guide you through the turbulence of new AI risks and opportunities. Yet, strategy consultants, schools, attorneys and associations are getting surprised daily along with the rest of us, as groundbreaking AI offerings emerge.

Academic and commercial recipes flood the zone, despite a vacuum of scholarly expertise and data specific to the implications, uses and dangers of AI. As a professor from another top university charged with retrofitting AI into its curriculum admitted to me, "We're doing an AI branding around content. However, our students will always know more than any of our faculty because the scientific and engineering building bocks of AI have little to do with its practical strategic usage, which is unfolding by the hour."

Our latest CEO survey from the June 2026 Yale CEO Summit buttresses this, particularly as it relates to how CEOs view their boards' understanding of AI. When asked, "How well do you think corporate boards understand what to evaluate on AI governance," 73 percent of CEOs responded "not well" or "not well at all." This is the consensus, despite all the tech titans and AI specialists added to corporate boards recently.

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