As companies rapidly move artificial intelligence out of the pilot sandbox and into their ordinary operating architecture, boards and executives must confront new questions about the roles AI may assume in corporate processes that long have depended on human judgment, deliberative documentation, and clear lines of authority and accountability. These traditionally human roles, which implicate how corporations create, protect, and take responsibility for their information, are now being presented to companies bedecked in AI raiments: AI that takes notes; AI that synthesizes internal work product; AI that triages HR or compliance matters; AI that monitors internal controls; and even AI that communicates with customers, counterparties, and employees as an executive’s ‘digital twin.’

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