5 AI Policy Templates You Can Use As A Framework
AI is something that many businesses are still working through. There are guidance and tools to help to create a framework for any business.
Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, generative AI tools, have opened up a whole new set of challenges for corporate IT.
Among them include copyright and fair use questions, data privacy and transparency concerns, potential issues over ethics and bias in an AI chatbot's response for example, and the chance of AI giving incorrect or hallucinatory responses.
It's vital that organizations set an AI policy that is customized to the needs of their organization.
The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) offers several considerations to take when crafting AI corporate policy:
- Assess your organization's AI needs: How will AI be used? By which departments? Which tools will be needed to supplement business operations?
- Understand regulations: According to ISACA, "Research the legal and regulatory requirements related to generative AI in your industry and jurisdiction."
- Perform a risk assessment: These include assessing any potential technical or ethical risks (like any generated misinformation).
- Engage stakeholders: Any individual or team within the organization who may use or be impacted by the use or AI should be involved in creating policy.
- Make plans to share the policy not only internally, but externally: Partners and customers should be fully aware of your organization's AI policy.
To get a jump start on creating a policy, there are several templates available. It's important to note these templates aren't just for filling out and then declaring to management or your board, "here is our policy." Instead, they should be used as a framework to customize a policy that is a right fit for your organization's needs.
5 AI Policy Templates
TrustCloud, which offers a trust assurance platform to help organizations streamline and meet regulatory compliances, achieve data security and transparency and fulfill other requirements that promote trust, offers an AI policy template through its Trust Community site. The template "outlines guidelines and procedures for the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within an organization."
NFPS.AI is a platform that helps nonprofits and not-for-profit organizations "harness AI technology to drive innovation." The template is targeted to nonprofits and not-for-profits.
The SANS Institute, in its over-30-year history, has been a leading source for cybersecurity certification, training and research. SANS offers an AI template which can be downloaded from its site.
Workable offers a template that can help businesses get started on creating a policy around the use of AI tools.
Microsoft offers a very detailed guideline for responsibly implementing AI policies and standards.