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Opinion · 7 October 2026

# AI agents on our executive committee: what cannot be delegated

Original title, in Spanish: “Agentes de IA en nuestro comité de dirección: lo que no se puede delegar”

**Publication**

Cinco Días (Spain)

**Authors**

María Campillo, Christine Chow, Sarah Rench

**Published on**

7 October 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

An opinion piece published in Cinco Días reports on a simulation carried out by its authors: a fictional executive committee of a listed company, whose nine seats (CEO, CFO, risk, security, AI, legal, human resources, operations, systems) are held by artificial intelligence agents facing compliance with the EU AI regulation (EU 2024/1689), postponed to December 2027 by Regulation EU 2026/1744. The exercise covers 11 systems that are candidates for "high-risk" status, of which only three have a complete conformity assessment. The authors find that the AI agents produce rigorous action plans but fail to manage human resistance, to detect undeclared systems (such as CV-screening pilots in human resources) and to accept uncertainty without acting prematurely. They conclude that the "human oversight" required by the regulation (Articles 14 and 26) relies on human skills that cannot be delegated, while in Spain Aesia is already operational and an organic law bill on AI is under discussion in Congress.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Cinco Días →](https://cincodias.elpais.com/opinion/2026-10-07/agentes-de-ia-en-nuestro-comite-de-direccion-lo-que-no-se-puede-delegar.html)

## Figures cited

-   7 %
    
    Maximum fine threshold under the EU AI regulation for the most serious infringements
    
    company's worldwide turnover, EU AI regulation
    
    > « las horquillas sancionadoras europeas alcanzan el 7% de la facturación mundial en los supuestos más graves »
    
    Source: Règlement (UE) 2024/1689
    

## Classification

**Country**

Spain

**Company size**

All sizes

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Companies**

Aesia (Agencia Española de Supervisión de la Inteligencia Artificial) (cited), IBM (cited)

**Keywords**

ai governance, eu ai regulation, human oversight, high-risk systems, board of directors, regulation

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Cinco Días and its authors. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.