Hosted by Mario Thomas · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 13 episodes
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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.
Mario Thomas hosts The Board in the Machine, a business show with 13 episodes published.
Most chief executives report no revenue gain and no cost saving from AI, while a fifth of organisations capture nearly three quarters of the value. That gap, between spending on AI and choosing well, is the working condi
On 12 June 2026, a single government directive forced a leading AI provider to withdraw two frontier models from every customer overnight, including organisations the order was never aimed at. For anyone who had built a
Only a fifth of finance leaders judge their function ready for AI, yet most already treat it as central to how finance will work. That gap, between commitment and readiness, is the working condition of the modern CFO. In
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 wit
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 diffe
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 can
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.
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 th
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
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 executi
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
Only 33% of boards feel equipped to govern AI, yet AI systems are making millions of decisions per second on their behalf. The gap between the volume of information boards must process and the quality of assurance they r
Two-thirds of boards report limited to no knowledge or experience with AI. Yet most governance guidance stops at naming the gap. This episode defines what closes it. In this episode of The Board in the Machine, Mario Tho
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