
An AI committee without a charter is a calendar invite.
With a charter it is an instrument.
Written. Rights. Stop. Report.
I run retained AI Executive Search mandates from Hamburg for DACH seats. This page owns the charter: not the accountability spine and not the committee-versus-seat cut.
The charter writes what the AI committee may do, stop, and owe the full board.
It is not a rename of accountability.
It is not a substitute for an AI seat on the board.
It is the operating document before the committee sticks 'AI' on the agenda.
Without a signature the committee stays atmosphere.
Not board AI accountability as an H1 clone.
Not the committee-versus-seat question as the spine.
Not an invented duty and not a find-a-mandate how-to.
One-line pointers are fine. Here: charter as instrument.
Rights: which yes-calls the committee prepares or blocks, and which stay with the full board.
Stop: what it may halt before damage becomes slides.
Report: what goes to the full board when, dated, not a mood protocol.
Miss one axis and the committee becomes a briefing circle.
Because 'we have an AI committee' without a charter decouples search from the bearer.
Because candidates without a charter guess the board frame.
Because mandates without an instrument end after three meetings as 'still unclear.'
If the AI committee is real, retain the AI Executive Search mandate with charter clarity, then staff bearer and board side accordingly.
If you only have a committee name, you do not have an instrument yet.
No. Charter is instrument. Seat is staffing. Both can be needed, they are not the same.
No. Accountability is the oversight frame. This page is the written committee instrument.
This page invents no duty. It asks for a charter when a committee exists.