Acceptable Use Policy (AI)
Written rules about how AI may be used internally.
"Without a policy, every team writes their own. Inconsistently."
What is Acceptable Use Policy (AI)? Written rules about how AI may be used internally. Necessary infrastructure for scaled adoption.
Use policies covering PII, IP, sensitive data, attribution.
Necessary infrastructure for scaled adoption.
Write it. Train on it. Audit against it.
Pick what to reward the model for.
Written rules about how AI may be used internally. In the wild: Use policies covering PII, IP, sensitive data, attribution.
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- Business
- Leadership
- Government
- Healthcare
- Education
- Sales
- Marketing
- AI
- Negotiation
- Media
- Public Policy
- Relationships
- Where in our org would Acceptable Use Policy (AI) most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards Acceptable Use Policy (AI)?
- If we removed every payoff for Acceptable Use Policy (AI), what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when Acceptable Use Policy (AI) persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of acceptable use policy (ai).
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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When you encounter Acceptable Use Policy (AI), your prefrontal cortex has to do extra work to override the automatic response — and that override budget is finite.
Executive control, planning, impulse override, working memory, System 2. First thing to go offline under stress, fatigue, or low blood sugar. Why your 4pm decisions are worse than your 9am ones.
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Logging of AI inputs, outputs, and decisions.
Inventory of models, data, tools, and dependencies in an AI system.
Tracing AI components for risk and compliance.
Cross-functional governance body for AI decisions.
Agents deployed before anyone owns the consequences.
Cryptographic tracking of content origin.
Send the card, not just the link
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Negative behavior of outgroup members is attributed to character; positive behavior to situational factors.
A finite set of well-defined instructions for solving a problem or performing a computation.
Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
Striking pattern that is statistically expected in large samples.
Adding a clearly worse option steers people toward the option you wanted.
Using a word with two meanings as if it meant one.
Research outcomes tend to favor the interests of the funders.
Behavior bends toward whatever the system actually rewards.
Hospital group-purchasing and opaque contracting inflate device costs far above marginal cost.
Work expands to fill the time available for it.
Assume the opposite of what you want to prove. Derive a contradiction. The opposite must be false.
Preferences that depend on others' outcomes — fairness, reciprocity, altruism, inequity aversion.