How long will it be before artificial intelligence becomes so ‘everyday’, so embedded in what we do, that it is no longer newsworthy? As many organizations rush to appoint a Chief AI Officer … remember the cautionary tale of the Chief Electricity Officer – employed to take advantage of a new technology – who became of victim of his (and at the time it would have been a ‘he’) own success. Adam Riley and I are discussing in this article the role of the ‘AI champion’ in organizations, and whether we need to have a ‘Chief Polymath’!!?