Why CEOs should personally use AI
You cannot govern a technology you have only seen in a presentation.
Delegating AI to IT is understandable and wrong. Not because IT cannot handle it, but because the decisions it forces are management decisions: what work we stop doing, who is accountable, what we allow employees to put into a prompt.
Two weeks of personal use
Use it for your own work for two weeks. Draft something difficult. Ask it to argue against your position. Give it a real document and see where it is confidently wrong.
You will develop something no vendor briefing gives you: an accurate intuition for where this helps and where it fails.
The side effect
Your organisation watches what you do far more closely than what you announce. A CEO who uses the tools sets adoption in motion without a single change programme.