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AI is evolving at a dizzying pace. Traditional governance frameworks for safe, responsible, and compliant AI use are struggling to keep up – too static to nimbly adapt when AI technology moves forward, new risks emerge, and regulatory standards change. As agentic AI proliferates, a new, dynamic model of AI governance is needed. Use our step-by-step methodology and practical tools to develop an AI governance roadmap that adapts to shifts in technology, risk, and legislation while aligning with your organization’s values and goals to deliver real impact.

Organizations are searching for a paradigm that enables them to leverage new AI technologies while also governing the new risks that are constantly being introduced. Adaptive AI governance effectively addresses both of those objectives: it doesn’t just mitigate risk – it enables secure innovation that ultimately drives value. Learn how to integrate governance throughout the AI lifecycle, delivering AI governance that grows and adapts with your organization.

1. This involves more than your compliance team.

Adaptive AI governance is not the siloed responsibility of your compliance department alone. It requires governance to be integrated into every stage of developing and deploying AI agents and AI applications. That includes planning and design, data collection and processing, testing and evaluation, monitoring, and decommissioning.

2. AI governance is not one-size-fits-all.

There’s no universal template for adaptive AI governance. The size, maturity, and enterprise governance structure of each organization will influence the specific roles and responsibilities involved in its AI governance program.

3. Humans play a critical role in adaptive AI governance.

Agentic AI involves AI systems performing tasks autonomously. But human beings play important parts in adaptive AI governance, even owning key stages of it. Designers, data scientists, developers, systems integrators, and product managers are just a few of the people who make adaptive AI governance work effectively.

Use this step-by-step blueprint to develop an adaptive governance framework for the safe, responsible deployment and use of AI

Our comprehensive blueprint helps you understand the components of an adaptive AI governance framework and how to customize it for your organization. Use our research and supporting tools to:

Assess your current AI governance capabilities.
Establish the organization’s foundational AI principles.
Establish your organization’s AI governance structure.
Develop an AI risk and compliance program.
Implement AI policies to operationalize the foundational AI principles.
Develop an AI assurance program.
Ensure accountability is assigned for every AI application.
Implement an adaptive and resilient AI governance framework.
Integrate AI governance into the AI lifecycle.
Build the adaptive AI governance roadmap.

Establish Your Adaptive AI Governance Program: From Principles to Practice Research & Tools

1. Establish Your Adaptive AI Governance Program Storyboard – This comprehensive PowerPoint framework guides you through all the steps to develop a roadmap and communication plan for governing AI in your organization.

This framework empowers you to:

Operate, in near real-time, continuous monitoring of the AI system’s actions and decisions against dynamic policy rules, with feedback mechanisms that learn and adapt the governance model.
Develop a governance roadmap that’s as agile and adaptive as the agentic AI systems it’s designed to oversee.
Enable innovation while managing risk proactively.

2. AI Governance Maturity Assessment Tool – This Excel-based self-assessment tool allows you to conduct a structured review of your AI governance capabilities.

Use this tool to:

Assess the current state of your organization’s AI governance capabilities.
Define the desired future state of your organization’s AI governance capabilities.
Build a list of AI initiatives by business-value driver to support your growth toward your target-state AI risk management capabilities.

3. Enterprise AI Governance Committee Charter Example – This Word template helps you document your AI policies.

Use this template to:

Write an AI governance charter for the organizations responsible for AI governance.
Set out in writing your AI governance committee’s mandate, goals, decision rights, and responsibilities.
Record the roles and responsibilities of individual AI governance committee members.

4. AI Governance Policy Template – This Word document is a sample template for writing AI policies.

This template helps you:

Define the purpose and scope of your AI governance policy.
Define key terms, acronyms, or concepts used in your policy.
Outline your organization’s foundational AI principles.

5. AI Policy Worksheet – This Excel file lists examples of AI policies from various institutions.

This tool helps you:

Audit your organizational AI policies.
State the risk that each of your own AI policies is intended to prevent or avoid.
Create policy statements explaining how your organization addresses each AI risk.

6. AI Risk Assessment Worksheet – This Excel file helps assess potential AI use case risks for your organization.

Use this tool to:

Identify specific risks within your AI risk taxonomy.
Assess the likelihood and impact of those risks.
Identify action items to mitigate or transfer the risk.

7. Adaptive AI Governance Executive Presentation – A PowerPoint template to present your AI governance roadmap in a prepopulated document.

Use this template to:

Summarize all the key findings in the blueprint.
Provide your C-suite with a view of AI governance challenges.
Outline your plan of action to meet those AI governance challenges.

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Module 1: Review Current AI Strategy and Governance

The Purpose

Understand the organization's current AI governance model and AI strategy roadmap.

Key Benefits Achieved

Gain a clear view of principles, risks, and regulations that will provide a foundation for AI governance and strategy.

Activities

Outputs

1.1

Review the organization's current AI governance model.

1.2

Review the organization's existing AI strategy and roadmap.

An understanding of the organization's current AI governance model and strategy roadmap.

1.3

Draw an inventory of applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

A list of compliance requirements for AI use.

Module 2: Establish Foundational AI Principles and Governance

The Purpose

Define the foundation for your AI governance structure.

Key Benefits Achieved

Align the team on the AI governance structure, articulating mandate, roles, and responsibilities.

Activities

Outputs

2.1

Level-set on the goals of AI governance and current AI governance maturity.

2.2

Determine and define foundational AI principles for the organization.

Foundational AI principles

2.3

Identify key strategic, tactical, and operational elements of the organization’s AI governance structure.

2.4

Define mandate, roles, and responsibilities.

Outline of your new AI governance structure and committees

2.5

Develop a charter for your executive-level committee.

Enterprise AI Governance Committee Charter

Module 3: Define AI Governance Framework

The Purpose

Detail the elements of your AI governance framework.

Key Benefits Achieved

Enable the organization to apply the right level of AI governance to their initiatives.

Activities

Outputs

3.1

Identify any risk and compliance requirements.

3.2

Assess the organization’s AI risk tolerance.

3.3

Recommend AI governance procedure and policy framework.

Draft AI governance policy and procedure framework

3.4

Recommend an AI assurance framework.

3.5

Establish accountability structure for AI applications.

A RACI chart that identifies the roles of different committees in supporting your AI governance initiatives

Module 4: Integrate Governance Into the AI Lifecycle

The Purpose

Define core AI governance processes.

Key Benefits Achieved

Determine how to govern key AI workloads across their lifecycle.

Activities

Outputs

4.1

Define AI governance adaptability and resilience requirements.

4.2

Define key AI governance requirements for each stage of the AI lifecycle.

Targets on the required level of AI governance adaptability and resilience

Module 5: Build an AI Governance Implementation Roadmap

The Purpose

Develop a roadmap and communication plan to proactively govern AI.

Key Benefits Achieved

Implement a dynamic, system-oriented, and continuous-monitoring governance model.

Activities

Outputs

5.1

Identify AI governance implementation initiatives.

5.2

Develop a high-level AI governance implementation roadmap.

AI governance implementation roadmap

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