The Unnamed Role: A Practitioner’s Guide to Sourcing, Funding, and Launching AI’s Most Critical Gap

July’s and August’s The Connecting Point and The AI Inflection Point named the problem: AI is creating critical roles that don’t yet exist on any org chart. These are the intersections where accountability, ethics, and high-stakes judgment collide—where autonomous systems make decisions nobody explicitly authorized, and no single function owns the outcome.

Boards are scrambling to fill these gaps, often by hiring externally for titles that don’t quite fit. But what if the solution isn’t a new hire at all? What if it’s someone already inside your organization, waiting for the role to be named?

This month’s Premium Deep Dive is for the doers. Whether you’re a board member trying to stand up this function or a practitioner proposing yourself for it, here’s how to source, fund, and launch the unnamed role before the cost of ignoring it becomes unbearable.