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The Marginal Cost of AI Is Not Zero
Edition 22 — Why boards should stop approving AI investment on assumptions borrowed from software, where the next unit was free, and scale improved the…
Aug 18
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Karim Harbott
The CEO Is Now the Chief AI Officer. Who Is Checking the CEO?
Edition 21 — Why boards should welcome CEO ownership of AI and still treat it as a delegation to be documented, bounded, and independently assured.
Aug 6
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Karim Harbott
July 2026
Attestation Is Not Oversight
What Deloitte's AI governance roadmap gets right, and what its questions cannot ask.
Jul 28
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Karim Harbott
The AI Act Deadline Moved. The Exposure Didn't.
Edition 20 — Why boards should treat the AI Act's deferral as borrowed time to govern, not permission to stand down.
Jul 21
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Karim Harbott
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Boards Are Governing the Firm's AI and Ignoring Their Own
Edition 19 - A roundtable at King's College London on the AI directors are already using — and the standard boards keep deferring.
Jul 8
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Karim Harbott
Start Here
The board's AI responsibility has two halves. Most boards govern only one. What this publication argues, and where to begin.
Jul 4
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Karim Harbott
Principles Are Not Controls
Edition 18 — Why adopting AI principles for the board's own use changes nothing until four of them are treated as controls, not aspirations.
Jul 3
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Karim Harbott
June 2026
AI's Hidden Environmental Footprint Is Becoming a Board-Level Risk
Edition 17 — Why the board should treat AI's environmental cost as a test of capital discipline and disclosure credibility, not an ESG afterthought.
Jun 25
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Karim Harbott
AI Has No Moat. Your Organisation Might.
Edition 16 - Why boards should stop treating AI as a source of advantage and start asking what the organisation must own for any advantage to survive…
Jun 10
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Karim Harbott
Board Portals Changed How Directors Received Information. AI Will Change How They Interrogate It.
Edition 15 - How AI can strengthen director preparation, challenge and judgement — if boards put the right safeguards around its use.
Jun 5
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Karim Harbott
May 2026
The Board Is Becoming the Weakest Link in AI Governance
Edition 14 — Why boards must govern their own use of AI before they can credibly oversee its use across the enterprise.
May 19
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Karim Harbott
AI Doesn’t Deliver Productivity. Organisational Design Does
Edition 13 — Why boards should stop asking where to deploy AI and start asking what the organisation must redesign to capture value.
May 7
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Karim Harbott
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