If Chief Digital Officers disappeared in two years… are Chief AI Officers next?
Waqas Khan draws parallels between today's Chief AI Officer trend and the Chief Digital Officer role that mostly disappeared within two years, warning that standalone AI executives face the same fundamental challenge: they don't own the infrastructure, applications, or operations needed to deliver transformation.
Khan explains why AI needs to be embedded across all business functions rather than siloed, and why Dollar General's approach of making it an SVP role (not C-suite) may be smarter. His prediction: AI leadership will be effective for transformation but won't last more than five years as a standalone function.
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