RICHU field notes / AI governance

Which AI-enabled actions still need human approval?

Turn automation boundaries into practical team rules for facts, permissions, approvals and recovery.

Match permissions to impact

Organising information, drafting content and actually publishing it have different external effects. A system should recognise the permissions each action needs and separate editing, review and execution. Actions involving customers, funds, production systems or fulfilment require approval from the appropriate owner.

Give every key fact a source

Product information, prices and service commitments should come from approved material. Record the editor and version when information changes so downstream content can identify its source. When sources conflict, show the differences and refer the decision to the business owner.

Record the process to handle exceptions

Link inputs, approval decisions, actions and results in the records. If a system fails, stop subsequent steps that depend on its output. Explain the reason and recovery point clearly so the owner can take over.

Make governance part of daily work

Review permission and approval rules regularly. Reconfirm action boundaries when adding channels, increasing budgets or connecting systems. Design logging, approvals and recovery around the project’s actual systems, and verify them at handover.

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PUT IT INTO PRACTICE

Turn reading into a bounded experiment.

Choose one task

Define the problem, owner, inputs and outputs. Do not begin with broad automation.

Set one check

Use a standard example and an exception example to verify facts and approvals against business requirements.

Make one decision

Expand when use is reliable. Pause when information or permissions are missing, and name the person responsible for resolving the gap.

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