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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Board in the Machine is the audio version of Mario Thomas's articles published at, written for Boards and executives navigating the governance and strategic implications of AI and emerging technology.
The Board in the Machine is hosted by Mario Thomas. The show has published 42 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Principle of Least Intelligence: How Much AI Does the Work Need?" (11 October 2026, 15 minutes), "Managers Own the Workflow: Where the AI Business Case Becomes Real" (4 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "The Supplier Grades the Customer: What Pacing the Frontier Means for the Organisations That Buy It" (27 September 2026, 13 minutes).
The Board in the Machine publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 13 minutes across 42 episodes.
Booking probability for The Board in the Machine is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Board in the Machine requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Board in the Machine's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mario Thomas hosts The Board in the Machine, a business podcast with 42 episodes published.
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The Board in the Machine
In September 2026 a start-up called TypeSafe AI shipped a model that does not write text at all: it takes a fixed set of options and returns a probability for each, and software acts on the answer. In October Microsoft...
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A Gartner analysis from December 2025 found AI saves about five hours per person per week. The manager may see nothing like that, because the team spends part of the saving checking what the AI produces, coordinating...
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Access to the most capable models is already decided by the supplier's assessment of the customer. The suppliers' own published pages describe tiers: the organisations a supplier has vetted or found eligible, the...
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No system has been breached, no contract has been broken, and no employee has resigned, yet an organisation's know-how may be leaving through the tools its best people use every day. A risk shaped like that sits beside...
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AI now writes the code and does the debugging that taught developers to check it. Verification demand rises as the route to building it weakens. Two experiments, two labour-market datasets and one telemetry study now...
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On 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act's rules for standalone high-risk systems were supposed to take effect. They will not. Six days before the deadline, the EU brought an amendment into force deferring those obligations to...
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Every AI business case counts the hours saved. Almost none counts the hours added: the reviewing, correcting, and supervising that AI outputs demand before anyone can rely on them. That labour is real, and in most...
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Teams that deploy AI save the equivalent of five hours per person per week, and most of that time is then spent on non-value-added tasks. The saving is real. What happens to it next is the problem, and it is a problem...
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As much as a fifth of an enterprise application estate turns out to be no longer useful once someone finally asks who still uses it. The same is true of the work itself, and it is the reason the first question about AI...
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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...
The Board in the Machine
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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