Module 7 of 8

Guardrails: privacy, funder AI policies, and who signs off

What never goes into the brain, how to check each funder's AI policy, who signs off on AI-assisted work, and a one-page AI use policy for your board.

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The brain you’ve built is useful because it holds your organization’s knowledge. That is also what makes it a risk. The guardrails in this lesson are not a compliance appendix; they decide what the brain may hold, whose work it can touch, and who is accountable for what leaves it.

Four guardrails: a data classification the whole team can apply without asking, a routine for checking each funder’s AI policy, a sign-off chain, and a one-page policy the board adopts. None of this is legal advice. If you handle regulated data, such as health records or student records, talk to counsel before you put anything related to it near an AI tool.

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