Database of Software Skills in Corporate Board Directors

Explore directors of U.S. listed companies

26.6% of 53243 filings analysed

7.4% of board directors have software skills

Software is eating the world. The future of business is bots-supervising-bots to do the white collar work, with a small dash of human oversight.

A lot has to happen to get us from here to there safely. We need wise and knowledgeable leaders who understand how AI bots work at a deep level in order to guide us on this path. AI Alignment is not something that you can do if you only have a high-level understanding. So let's ask how many directors seem to have the right background that they would be able to review plans to use AI.

Incidentally, I run workshops for senior managers on these sorts of topics.