April Miller Boise had been in her new job at Intel for barely six months when Open AI released ChatGPT three years ago.

“Certainly people have been using artificial intelligence. It was underlying lots of different applications and functions,” Miller Boise, the executive vice president and chief legal officer of the company, said. But watching a generative AI tool and what it was capable of doing meant that businesses had to think what it meant for them, she said. “Fundamentally, it has changed computing, and the way probably all of us do and will do our work.”

Miller Boise arrived as Intel was making strategic changes in battling chip makers like AMD and Nvidia for market share. By the end of 2024, CEO Pat Gelsinger had been forced out, eventually replaced by former board member Lip-Bu Tan.

Now, she is bringing her skills in a range of industries including manufacturing to help Intel’s craft its AI strategy while working with the company’s leaders to make sure that the legal team is enabling innovation.

“AI is critically important, and we have to have an AI strategy that wins. And we’re very much focused on that AI roadmap,” Miller Boise said.

At Intel, she leads a team of about 400. “We think of our work in kind of four areas, and that is to drive growth, to help the company manage and mitigate risk, to remove roadblocks, and to make sure we’re delivering the best in class function and the best in class team,” she said.

Miller Boise had gotten to know Tan when he was part of the Intel board before he became CEO. “He’s been in a semiconductor and in the technology ecosystem for a really long time, and he’s very focused on making sure we get back to technology leadership,” she said about Tan.

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