Framework 5 · Intelligence Abundance Toolkit
The best AI governance document I've seen was two pages. The worst was forty-seven. The forty-seven-page version was thorough, compliance-friendly, and completely useless in novel situations, which is exactly where AI governance gets tested.
What goes wrong
Governance documents too rigid to handle novel situations. AI moves faster than any compliance framework can update. A 47-page document covers every known scenario with specific rules and fails completely when something new comes up. Novel situations are exactly where AI governance gets tested.
The difference isn't length. It's what the document is designed to do.
"Employees may not use AI to draft external communications without manager approval. AI-generated content must be reviewed before publication. Customer data may not be entered into unapproved AI tools." These rules cover known scenarios. They fail on novel ones. And every new AI capability creates a new novel scenario.
"We don't ship anything we wouldn't put our name on, regardless of how it was produced. Our customers' data is treated with the same care we'd want our own data treated with. We use AI to do better work, not to do less work. The quality bar doesn't move." These principles cover known and unknown scenarios. They get sharper with use.
One paragraph. Who you are and the standard AI doesn't change. This is the sentence every person in your organization can use to evaluate any AI output. Example: "We produce work we'd be proud to put our name on. That standard doesn't change based on who or what produced it."
One page. Three tiers: individual discretion, manager approval, executive approval. Be specific about what goes in each tier. Ambiguity here creates the escalation problems the constitution is designed to prevent.
Three to five bullet points. Not rules about process. Standards about output. What does "good enough" mean? How do you evaluate AI-generated work against the same bar you'd apply to human-generated work?
One paragraph. When someone isn't sure whether something is authorized: one person, one decision point, fast response. If the path takes more than 24 hours, it won't be used.
The Intelligence Abundance Toolkit includes the Two-Page AI Constitution Template: a fill-in-the-blank format with annotated examples for each section, a constitutional consistency test, and guidance on how to migrate from a compliance document without losing the protections that compliance rules provide.
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