Over the last two years, the AI conversation in boardrooms has shifted from “What is this?” to “How can we best deploy?” The next wave for early adopters is to advocate for including AI agents as de facto members of the board – embedded in the board portal, continuously scanning risk, proposing agenda items, and generating draft resolutions. For large multinationals, the question is no longer whether AI will set in the boardroom – it already does. The question becomes, how far should boards go in treating AI systems as quasi-members of the governance team? And, what does it mean for fiduciary duty, legal liability, and board dynamics?