Unit
Assess and Approve AI Use Cases Safely
A practical governance course for evaluating AI use cases, mapping data and access flows, assessing privacy and security risks, and making defensible approve, conditionally approve, redesign, escalate, or reject decisions.
What you'll learn
Clarifying Business Purpose and Context
- assess the stated business purpose for legitimacy and organisational alignment
- identify affected people and material consequences of the proposed AI use case
Identifying Information and Data Exposure
- Identify and classify sensitive or restricted information involved in the use case.
- determine the minimum information necessary for the stated business purpose
Analysing AI Environment and Data Flows
- analyse the AI systems, vendors, and integrations relevant to the use case
- map access and data flows for the proposed use case
Identifying and Treating Privacy and Security Risks
- identify privacy, security, and information-handling risks for the use case
- Identify evidence required to assess risks and verify control effectiveness
- evaluate available controls and risk treatments for the use case
Assessing Residual Risk and Making Decisions
- assess residual risk after applying controls and risk treatments
- make and justify a decision to approve, conditionally approve, redesign, escalate, or reject the use case
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