Boards of directors have critical new responsibilities in the AI era

“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.” —Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas According to the people building today’s most powerful AI models, the CEO will soon be obsolete. Sundar Pichai, head of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has called the CEO role “one of the easier things” for AI to handle. S...