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id: "quote-ai-democratically-accessible"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ AI Leadership is a Muscle"]
tags: ["democratization", "access"]
related: ["concept-ai-shapers", "action-role-model-ai"]
speaker: "Authors (paraphrasing a Fortune 5 healthcare CFO)"
speakers: ["Rens van den Broek", "Samantha Hellauer", "Dina Wang"]
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
source_title: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-foci-60-successful-ai-pilots"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
---
# AI should be democratically accessible

## Quote: AI should be democratically accessible

> "His philosophy is clear: AI should be democratically accessible, not reserved for experts."

**Speaker:** the Authors, paraphrasing a **Fortune 5 healthcare CFO**

### Significance
Captures the ethos of an [[concept-ai-shapers|AI shaper]] and connects to the [[action-role-model-ai|role-model]] guidance — the same CFO is cited elsewhere as sharing his screen in meetings to model AI use, reinforcing that access, not expertise gatekeeping, drives adoption.