AIG 120 · For board members and executives
AI Governance: Boards and executives
What the board answers for when the company uses AI, the questions to ask management, setting a risk appetite for AI, reading an AI risk report, and the board's role when AI goes wrong.
6 lessons · about 25 min · quiz · certificate
Course outline
Lessons
- 1What the board answers for when the company uses AIHow the board's duty of oversight extends to AI · What the AI Act asks of the company and who is fined · The EU laws that put duties on the board itself · Why the company's claims about AI concern the board4:48
- 2Questions to ask management about AIHow much a director needs to understand about AI · Where the company's AI is and who answers for it · What the law asks of each system and from when · Asking about exposure and spotting a vague answer4:44
- 3Setting a risk appetite for AIWhat an AI risk appetite is and who asks for one · The uses of AI the company never allows · How to state an appetite management can report on · Budgets for different bets and when to review them4:35
- 4Reading an AI risk reportWhy a color on a risk matrix tells the board little · The parts of a risk figure and the evidence behind it · What moved since the last report and why · Looking past the average to severe events and harm4:03
- 5The board's role when AI goes wrongHow an unauthorized AI tool led to a bank's filing · What the board agrees before anything goes wrong · The board's questions and the deadlines that may run · Why the response matters and what comes after5:09
- 6The habits of a board that oversees AI1:14
- Final quizOpens when every lesson is done.
- CertificateA dated record of completion, issued when you pass the quiz.