AI Governance

LABUSA insights on AI governance: responsible, secure, and compliant approaches to deploying artificial intelligence across your organization.

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Generative AI Governance
Generative AI does not need a separate governance program. It needs the same program with several things added, because a handful of its risks either do not arise with other kinds of AI or arrive with a different shape. ...
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AI Acceptable Use Policy
An AI acceptable use policy states what staff may do with AI at work, what they may not, and where to ask. It is the one governance document most people in an organization will ever read, which makes its length and its t...
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AI Governance for K-12 Schools
School districts arrive at AI governance from a different direction from businesses. Staff adoption is already widespread, the data involved is about children, the community has a direct interest, and the organization fr...
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What You Own at the End of an AI Governance Engagement
This page is about the artifact rather than the work. If you want the order the work happens in, that is how to create an AI governance program, and this page deliberately does not repeat it. What follows is what changes...
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Measuring the Value of AI Governance
Governance is easy to buy and hard to justify a year later, because the thing it prevents does not happen and the thing it produces is paperwork. This page is about what to measure so that the question can be answered wi...
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Public-Sector AI Case Studies: Lessons for Organizations Beginning with AI
Public organizations have been deploying AI long enough that there is now something better than speculation to learn from. Federal agencies publish inventories of what they run, auditors examine those programmes against ...
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The 7 Dimensions of AI Readiness
Ask ten suppliers what makes an organization ready for AI and you will get ten lists. Most of them are the same list with different headings, and the differences matter less than the discipline of having one and applying...
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AI Readiness Checklist for Public-Sector Organizations
A checklist is only useful if working through it changes what you do. This one is built so that every item has a verifiable answer: something you can point at, not something you can feel confident about. It follows the s...
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AI Readiness Assessment for K-12 School Districts
School districts are further into AI than almost any other kind of public organization, and further from having decided anything about it. That is not a criticism. Teachers found generative AI tools useful immediately, s...
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AI Readiness for Cities and Counties
Cities and counties are asked to do more each year with staffing that does not grow at the same rate, which makes automation genuinely attractive rather than merely fashionable. They are also among the organizations leas...