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The AI Governance Gap.
What Boards Don’t Know.
Deloitte’s 2025 survey of 695 board members and C-suite executives across 56 countries: two-thirds lack the knowledge to govern AI risk; 31% do not have AI on the board agenda at all; only 17% address it at every meeting. Tap each gauge for the methodology.
The board’s primary governance failure pattern is recognising risk too late. The Deloitte (2025) survey makes the AI variant of that pattern explicit. Two-thirds of boards acknowledge they lack the knowledge to govern AI risk. 31% have not placed AI on the agenda. Only 17% address it at every meeting. None of those positions is sustainable. The risk does not pause while governance catches up: the World Economic Forum (2026) reports that only 1% of more than 1,300 surveyed risk experts anticipate a calm global outlook over either the two- or ten-year horizon. The risk environment that boards must govern through is one the practitioner consensus considers anything but benign.
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