Data Governance for AI
Before an AI system is pointed at a corpus nobody has classified, which is the point at which governance stops being theoretical.
Governance for AI covers classification, retention, and access rules applied to the data AI systems reach — including, importantly, what must not be indexed at all.
The exclusion list is the part most often omitted and most often regretted, because an assistant that answers helpfully from material it should never have seen is difficult to explain afterwards.
What the work includes
- Classification of sources by sensitivity and permitted use
- Explicit exclusion of material that must not be indexed
- Retention rules applied to derived artifacts, not only to source data
- Review cadence, since access granted for a project outlives the project