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# AI Is Great at Routine Tasks. Here's Why Boards Should Resist Using It

Harvard Business Review (May 1, 2025) reports interviews with 27 board chairs of Toronto Stock Exchange-listed companies (average assets $9.04 billion, average revenues $3.7 billion) across industrials, energy, materials, real estate, IT, finance, consumer discretionary and healthcare. The researchers name an "encroaching risk": AI-automating power-conduit tasks erodes the chair's influence. They identify three such tasks — managing the agenda, summarising the discussion, and reviewing board-member performance — and warn that, for example, "leaving the task of creating the agenda to AI completely bypasses the chair's strategic thinking." Relevant for SEA mid-market chairs considering AI board-pack automation.

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Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org/2025/05/ai-is-great-at-routine-tasks-heres-why-boards-should-resist-using-it)

Topic: Boardroom Performance: https://lyoenandpartners.com/insights/topic/boardroom-performance

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