Can AI Boards Outperform Human Ones?

According to a recent poll of 500 global CEOs, 94% believe AI could offer better counsel than at least one of their human board members. In October 2025, Samruk-Kazyna, the National Wealth Fund of Kazakhstan, announced the appointment of SKAI (Samruk-Kazyna Artificial Intelligence), as a voting member of its board of directors.

We’re seeing the rapidly growing ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate relevant, well-informed outputs across diverse domains. In contrast, the capacity of independent human directors to offer sound strategic advice is limited. As two of us have pointed out in a recent HBR article, non-executive board members are extremely busy part-timers who typically meet just four to five times a year, and often serve on multiple boards.