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.