Sparking Good Governance: Responding to Rising AI and Cyber Risks
August 14, 2025
By Jack Grogan-Fenn
With 60% of S&P 500 companies identifying material artificial intelligence-related (AI) risks to their business, cyber-security risk management is once again rising to the top of investors’ stewardship agendas.
This is hardly surprising given McKinsey’s recent survey which found that 78% of organisations now use AI in at least one area.
Asset owners and service providers are therefore stepping up with new research and monitoring frameworks designed to help investors and companies navigate this evolving landscape.
At the start of peak season 2025, Minerva rolled out additional research and voting guidelines to evaluate corporate disclosures against globally recognised cyber governance standards such as the OECD AI Principles and the G7 Hiroshima AI Process. These new guidelines supplemented Minerva’s existing cyber-governance questions first adopted in 2016 offering investors a robust lens through which to assess board readiness with a clear focus on governance and disclosure quality, particularly in…
