Putting Healthy Guardrails on AI: A Product Development Workshop

This is a hands-on session about building AI products that balance empowerment and impact with governance and risk. We'll start with a real use case from your own work, then walk through how to think about what AI is really doing. In plain language, without requiring technology expertise, we'll walk through making simple maps of where AI can help, and where it creates risk. From there we'll get into the practical product design: how to connect AI to verified information so it doesn't make things up, when to escalate to a human, and how to limit what AI can and can't do. This workshop builds on real world experiences building governed AI tools for nonprofit, government and global enterprises. You'll walk away with a one-page product blueprint and a way of thinking about AI decisions you can use in your real work.