AI in the Boardroom - Who is Accountable When It Goes Wrong

Introduction

The UK has no single AI statute. Instead, accountability is spread across directors’ duties, contract, tort, data protection, equality law and sector regulation - with the EU AI Act reaching into UK businesses that sell into or operate in the EU. For boards, that patchwork makes ownership of AI risk easy to assume and hard to evidence.

This webinar cuts through the noise to focus on accountability - who is responsible when an AI system fails, what the law expects of directors who approve and oversee its use and the practical governance steps that allow a board to show it acted reasonably before something went wrong.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Where AI now sits in the organisation
• The UK framework without a UK AI Act
• Directors’ duties applied to AI - sections 172 and 174 of the Companies Act 2006
• Mapping the chain of responsibility: developer, vendor, integrator and deployer
• When it goes wrong: the main liability routes - negligence, contract, misrepresentation, data protection and discrimination
• The long reach of the EU AI Act: when UK businesses are caught as providers or deployers
• Building board-level oversight
• Personal exposure and protection