Boards are under pressure to oversee digital, AI, and cyber risk with confidence. This playbook offers a practical blueprint and toolkit to help directors upgrade board composition, structures, and oversight to become truly tech-savvy.
Leaders keep asking, “Can the model do it?” The better question is, “Can we govern it?” Durable organizations pair principled dissent with grounded realism and give both a single vantage point—a watchtower—to see weak signals early and act in time.
When intelligence learns to upgrade itself, progress turns into a feedback loop. From a Skyrim glitch to real-world AI, the lesson is clear: without alignment and governance, optimisation can spiral beyond control. The question is whether we forge wisdom before we forge gods.
In this board-level study, we explore why smaller, task-specific AI models often outperform massive frontier models. The piece examines how accuracy, latency, cost and risk interact, and provides decision frameworks and metrics for executives. Restraint brings cost, speed and reliability advantages.
Boards now face an AI dilemma: how to balance cost efficiency, safety, and performance at planet scale. This whitepaper shows how trust can be made auditable through measurable SLOs, global standards, and case lessons—turning governance from compliance into competitive advantage.
