76% of Companies Now Have a Chief AI Officer — And It Happened Almost Overnight
The Chief Data Officer took a decade to go mainstream. The Chief Digital Officer never really got there. The Chief AI Officer? Eighteen months. IBM’s latest study — surveying 2,000+ CEOs across 33 countries — drops a jaw-dropping stat: 76% of organizations now have a CAIO, up from just 26% in 2025. That’s not adoption. That’s a corporate stampede. Why This Role Exists Every company has a CTO managing infrastructure and a CIO handling systems. But who owns the question of how AI actually changes the way work gets done? ...