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Duncan Sinclair

Nov 18, 2025

7:01
If we bring this down to the practical level and say you're the chair of a board and you recognize that AI is going to play a greater role, both as an opportunity and potentially a risk for the company, and you want to increase the competency of the board in that area, Well, how does one go about doing that, including how do you do that without overwhelming management and putting it on their shoulders?
7:24
So one of the boards that I sit on, the chair actually arranged that everybody had an AI buddy.
7:29
And it's a young person within the organization that is heavily immersed in the way that AI is being adopted into different parts of the business.
7:38
And we have a regular set of conversations over a 90-day window where to just better learn and understand.
7:43
And each conversation focuses on, here's a few new tools for you to experiment with.
7:47
Here's some things to understand about what this does, as well as just updating me on how are we looking to implement some of this? What's it going to mean? What have been some of the new things we've discovered? What are some of the challenges we're finding? As just a way to, I think, do two things.
8:01
One, it gives you a better understanding of, so what does this stuff actually do? Like practically, what does it mean to have this? But it also, I think, reveals something In every one of these initiatives, human beings are still at the center of it.

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19:44
But you might be able to point at some organizations or some best practices that you think have been really good.

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