4 questions business leaders must answer before hiring a chief AI officer

Do enterprises need a chief AI officer (CAIO) to shepherd their forward progress in a world of increasing automation? Sandy Carter, tech veteran and author of Extreme Innovation, said that "new roles like the CAIO will become essential for leveraging the big data coming into companies from all angles." Andrew Ng, Stanford computer science professor and cofounder of online learning provider Coursera, has also been a proponent of assigning an executive to transform data into value by making sure AI is applied across all data silos. But with the role still nascent, many experts continue to debate this topic. A quick public search on LinkedIn shows that only a dozen professionals currently hold the title.