U.S. Bank's AI Chief Says Scaling AI Is Inevitable. The Only Question Is How.

Prashant Mehrotra, Chief AI Officer at U.S. Bank, has a framework for what his job actually is. "I look at my role in terms of four E's," he told the Wall Street Journal in a conversation with Amit Anand, a Principal at Deloitte Consulting. "Evangelize, educate, enable, and execute on AI efforts across the enterprise."

The sequence places adoption and capability building before deployment. At a bank the size of U.S. Bank, rollout depends on alignment across business and technology teams, workforce training, and the systems and governance required to support AI use.

These steps come before execution and determine whether deployment can scale. Mehrotra presents execution as the final stage, dependent on the preceding steps.