Here is a strange little scene that is playing out inside boardrooms across the world right now. A board chair turns to the CEO and asks, very politely, who owns the AI strategy. The CEO smiles, nods, and says the right thing. The board feels reassured. The CEO walks back to their office, calls a meeting, and asks the same question to their own team. Four different executives raise their hands. One of them is the CIO. One is HR. One is the head of a business unit. One is sitt

Let me start with a question most boards have not yet asked themselves out loud. If an AI agent in your company places an order, signs off a refund, files a customs entry, or sends a quote to a client at 3 AM on a Sunday — and gets it wrong — who exactly is accountable on Monday morning? If you paused for a second there, you are not alone. That pause is the whole problem with agentic AI governance right now. Boards across India, the US, and Europe are sitting on a quiet shift