AI presents an important governance challenge for boards, with directors increasingly required to oversee its adoption and use across their organisations. AI does not create new duties or alter existing ones in the UK or the US, but it does change the context in which directors exercise those duties and how they are discharged in practice.
What we will cover
- How the Companies Act 2006 duties apply to AI, particularly promoting the success of the company, independent judgment and reasonable care, skill and diligence.
- Why directors need a working understanding of material AI deployments, and the risks of uncritical reliance on AI outputs, including at board level.
- How risks differ across machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI, and how they evolve and spread across the business.
- The key contrasts between the UK and US approaches.
What you will take away
Practical steps for directors in the UK and the US covering accountability and governance, risk assessment, monitoring, testing and audit, human oversight and documentation.
