Supervisory board and AI accountability: when the board demands a bearer

The supervisory board does not take over management.

It can require that the AI decision has a named bearer.

I run retained AI Executive Search mandates from Hamburg for DACH seats. Vorstand accountability, reporting line, and agentic board questions are other spokes, here the supervisory-board lens. Not a restage of the management-board accountability page.

Soft organ floor

The Vorstand manages under its own responsibility (§ 76 (1) AktG). A GmbH managing director owes care (§ 43 GmbHG).

Context only. Not legal advice. No invented supervisory-board AI duty.

No CAIO duty

The AI Act and Art. 4 do not require a CAIO or an AI officer. Literacy proof stays on the Art. 4 spoke.

When search

When the board moment is name the bearer: the AI Executive Search mandate.

FAQ

### Must the supervisory board appoint a CAIO?

No. No statutory CAIO duty from the AI Act.