By Paul Johnston, with Jamie Bykov-Brett and Alan Hewitt, 1 December 2025 When a disruptive technology arrives, the reflex question in many boardrooms is: isn’t this just another IT challenge? It’s the wrong question and a dangerous one. It’s the equivalent of asking whether the internet was just another phone line. Each revolution began as a technical curiosity and ended up redrawing the map of business, regulation, and trust. Artificial intelligence now faces the same risk of misframing.