By 2027, the destroyer XO should expect onboard AI that is bounded, transparent, and resilient. What Onboard AI Should Actually DoA destroyer XO is responsible for, among other things, the standardized training of every division across the ship. A destroyer XO must treat onboard AI as an augmentation layer, not as infrastructure. Before fielding any AI tool, the XO should ask three questions: “What manual processes exist if the system fails? Even mission-specific, locally deployed AI systems can misinterpret data, surface misleading correlations, or fail silently in ways that are not immediately apparent.