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of AI leadership. CIOs are no longer
harder to establish enterprise standards,
just responsible for the 昀椀nancial and
govern risk consistently and scale
security costs of AI but are increasingly
successful initiatives beyond isolated
responsible for its sustainability
teams. Without stronger alignment,
implications. As regulatory expectations
AI adoption risks becoming uneven,
and board scrutiny grow, environmental
reactive and increasingly dif昀椀cult to
accountability will become part of what it
control.
means to lead responsible enterprise AI.
Environmental considerations add a
Taken together, these 昀椀ndings point to a
further dimension to this responsibility.
rede昀椀nition of the CIO’s role. Leadership
As AI usage expands, its energy demands
in an AI era is becoming less about how
and environmental footprint are
fast organisations can move, and more
becoming harder to ignore. Yet only 39%
about how deliberately they can move.
of CIOs are extremely con昀椀dent that
The ability to slow certain decisions
their organisation actively measures and
down to speed sustainable progress up
manages the environmental impact of
is rapidly becoming one of the de昀椀ning
its AI initiatives, and just 41% say energy
capabilities of the modern CIO.
ef昀椀ciency is prioritised in AI deployment.
This marks a signi昀椀cant shift in the scope
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priorities and lack of alignment make it
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