AI at the board table
AI in board papers and minutes, ethics and red lines.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- AI and Governance
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module turns to AI used by board members, councillors, trustees and governance professionals in their own work. It draws on the Diligent Institute's 2026 director survey and the Charity Commission's 2024 position to weigh what AI can add and take away, and sets out safeguards for AI note-taking, the governance professional's role as custodian of the record, an illustrative case and a protocol for members' own use. This module explores how boards turn stated values into decisions about AI, including uses they rule out. It sets out three competing meanings of fairness from Kleinberg, Mullainathan and Raghavan and from Chouldechova, the OECD AI Principles, ethics panels including West Midlands Police's data ethics committee, five steps from values to decisions, red lines, and the Equality Act 2010 with the Welsh Socio-economic Duty.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Assess what AI can add to board work and what it can take away, including confidentiality, accuracy, judgement, the record and diversity of thought.
- Set out safeguards for AI note-taking in meetings and the governance professional's role as custodian of the formal record.
- Use a members' AI protocol and the six summary questions to keep your own reading and judgement at the centre of decisions.
- Explain why fairness in an AI system is a values choice, using the three competing meanings of fairness set out by Kleinberg and colleagues and Chouldechova.
- Apply the OECD AI Principles, the Equality Act 2010 and, in Wales, the Socio-economic Duty to test an AI proposal.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 06AI in the Boardroom: Papers, Minutes and DecisionsThis module turns to AI used by board members, councillors, trustees and governance professionals in their own work. It draws on the Diligent Institute's 2026 director survey and the Charity Commission's 2024 position to weigh what AI can add and take away, and sets out safeguards for AI note-taking, the governance professional's role as custodian of the record, an illustrative case and a protocol for members' own use.39 min
- 07Ethics, Fairness and Values at Board LevelThis module explores how boards turn stated values into decisions about AI, including uses they rule out. It sets out three competing meanings of fairness from Kleinberg, Mullainathan and Raghavan and from Chouldechova, the OECD AI Principles, ethics panels including West Midlands Police's data ethics committee, five steps from values to decisions, red lines, and the Equality Act 2010 with the Welsh Socio-economic Duty.38 min
Keep going.
Part of the AI and Governance topic, also sold whole as Minding the machine.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Values at the table, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Minding the machine, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms