What does a Chief AI Officer do?

What does a Chief AI Officer do?

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Andy Quick, former Chief AI Officer at Entergy, to explore what it actually means to lead AI inside a Fortune 500 company.

In this episode, they unpack what a Chief AI Officer actually does inside a Fortune 500 company. Andy shares what it takes to align AI with business outcomes in a regulated utility, how to plan when models evolve faster than enterprise cycles, and why process maturity matters.

Podcast Notes & Links

• Chief AI Officers Made Enterprise Inroads in 2024 – CIO Dive / Altrata
• Frequent Use of AI in the Workplace Continued to Rise in Q4 – Gallup
• The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 – MIT Project NANDA / Fortune
• Project Vend: Phase Two – Anthropic

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Credits

Thanks to the team at WYPR, producers Sam Bermas-Dawes and Shania Mapso, and Myrna Martinez, Head of Operations and Marketing at PerryLabs.