
The Board in the Machine is the audio version of Mario Thomas's articles published at mariothomas.com, written for Boards and executives navigating the governance and strategic implications of AI and emerging technology.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 10 | Founded | a month ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | ManagementBusiness | |||

Most organisations have made their data reliable. Far fewer have made it explain itself, and that distinction is becoming the one that separates organisations that can reason with AI from those that can only retrieve with it. In this episode of The B... more
The information environment directors now use to make decisions is increasingly composed by AI systems whose framing decisions are not transparent. The company secretary is the only person with line of sight to the difference, and increasingly even t... more
An AI model is in production somewhere in the organisation, handling a difficult decision: a customer complaint, a redundancy query, a medical underwriter reviewing a claim. The model settles what to refuse, how much candour the moment can bear, wher... more
A new AI architecture lands on 5 May. Subquadratic launches SubQ: a 12-million-token context window on a sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture that reduces attention compute by roughly 1,000 times at full context. The interesting question is no... more
A short statutory instrument lands on 12 May. It directs the Information Commissioner to prepare a statutory code on AI and automated decision-making. The interesting question is not what the code will say. It is what the law already requires. Since ... more
Chairs remain accountable for the Board's effectiveness. They are no longer fully in control of how decisions are being formed. AI is remaking both the Board's own work and the work the Board governs at the same time. In this episode of The Board in ... more
Only 31% of CFOs are satisfied with their AI outcomes, yet that figure rises to over 60% among CFOs whose organisations sit at the top of the AI adoption curve. Satisfaction tracks scale, and the gap is not about execution. In this episode of The Boa... more
Boards have always made decisions under incomplete information. What has changed is not the volume of what reaches the table — it is the quality of what the Board can see before the vote is taken. Most Boards still rely on instruments built for a slo... more
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