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I'm suddenly in charge of AI use at work. Now what?

You did not ask for this. Someone above you decided the org needed an owner for AI use, and your name was the one available. That is not an insult. It is simply how responsibility moves — toward whoever is standing closest when the question gets asked. The fear you feel is not proof you are unfit. It is proof you understand the stakes better than someone who feels nothing. What you lack is not judgment. You have judgment; you use it daily on harder things than this. What you lack is a map of the specific terrain — where AI use in your org can cause real harm, and where it is simply a tool like any other. You will not get that map by reading everything written on the subject. You will get it by making a short list of real decisions your team faces this month, and deciding each one in the open, with others, so the reasoning is visible and can be corrected. That is the work. Begin there.

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They need a working grasp of a few concrete risk categories, but the paralysis is mainly about authority and fear, which coaching moves address faster than more reading.
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What’s really going on

You do not need to become an expert in a week. You need three things in place: a short written line on what your team may and may not do with AI, one person per project who checks the output before it ships, and a habit of asking 'what happens if this is wrong.' Build those first. Everything else is refinement.

🔒 What you’ll build togetherUnlock by starting
A moveGather your team this week and name the three places AI use could actually hurt someone — a customer, a decision, your org's name. Write them down. Stop there; you do not need a longer list yet.
A moveWrite one page, not twenty: what your team may do with AI without asking, and what needs a second person's eyes first. Share it before you polish it.
A moveAssign one named person to review AI-assisted work before it goes out the door, on every project that touches a customer or a decision. Not a committee. One person, one name.
A moveWhen someone asks you a question you cannot answer, say so, and bring it to the group instead of guessing alone. Pretending to certainty you don't have is the actual risk here.
A moveSet a date, thirty days out, to look at what broke, what worked, and change the one-page rule accordingly. Do not aim for a finished policy on day one.
PractiseName the Three Risks · a Pod of 4 · 30 min

What changes unlock by starting

  • A short written line your team can actually follow, instead of a vague sense of worry
  • A named reviewer for AI-assisted work, so the burden is not yours alone
  • A clearer sense of which fears were real and which were just the discomfort of new authority
  • A working habit of revising the rule instead of waiting to get it perfect

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