AI GOVERNANCE
PLAYBOOK
FOR BOARDS
The official guide to navigating complexity, mitigating risk, and transforming governance into competitive advantage.
The playbook recommends four key steps for boards:
- Engage in Discovery and Assessment: A comprehensive baseline assessment is essential to understand where AI is currently deployed across an organization and to evaluate the risks it presents.
- Develop Governance Architecture: Effective oversight requires that Boards organize themselves in a way that enhances meaningful oversight of how AI is deployed across the organization. Boards should consider how AI is deployed both internally within the business and externally to various stakeholders when thinking about the appropriate Board structure.
- Institute AI Protocols: Board members should ensure the company has adequate processes and governance structures to identify, escalate, and mitigate risks arising from use of AI.
- Empower your team to leverage and govern AI: Boards and senior executives must stay informed to proactively adopt new strategies to seize AI opportunities while mitigating risk.
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The playbook recommends four key steps for boards:
- Engage in Discovery and Assessment: A comprehensive baseline assessment is essential to understand where AI is currently deployed across an organization and to evaluate the risks it presents.
- Develop Governance Architecture: Effective oversight requires that Boards organize themselves in a way that enhances meaningful oversight of how AI is deployed across the organization. Boards should consider how AI is deployed both internally within the business and externally to various stakeholders when thinking about the appropriate Board structure.
- Institute AI Protocols: Board members should ensure the company has adequate processes and governance structures to identify, escalate, and mitigate risks arising from use of AI.
- Empower your team to leverage and govern AI: Boards and senior executives must stay informed to proactively adopt new strategies to seize AI opportunities while mitigating risk.
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