As AI’s influence over the workplace broadens, debate continues to ripple across the business landscape—from the breakroom to the boardroom—about how to keep humans meaningfully involved. Many workers and executives alike have championed the idea of keeping a “human in the loop.”
But according to leaders across the C-suite, that safeguard alone won’t be enough. What will matter most in the coming years is judgment, speakers emphasized at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women 2025 summit in Washington, D.C.
