Become an AI governance and risk lead

Honest note: The ten steps follow the AI Governance & Risk Lead course. It teaches practice and is not legal advice. Ask a lawyer about the rules in your region. Extra reading from other courses is listed at the end.

1. 1

   Step 1 of 10

   Understand the role

   Explain what governance is, why it matters now and what the role produces.

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   • ○What an AI Governance & Risk Lead DoesCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Tool: ClaudeTool: NotebookLM

   Before you move on: Write a five-question survey on AI use in your organisation and sort ten imagined answers by risk.

2. 2

   Step 2 of 10

   Build the inventory and tiers

   List every AI system and sort them into clear risk tiers.

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   • ○AI Inventory & Risk ClassificationCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Tool: Notion

   Before you move on: Fill in inventory records for five systems and assign a tier to each, with your reasons.

3. 3

   Step 3 of 10

   Write policy, standards and controls

   Write a short policy and controls that can be tested.

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   • ○Policies, Standards & ControlsCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Draft a one-page policy and one control record with a way to test it.

4. 4

   Step 4 of 10

   Know the laws and frameworks

   Know the EU AI Act, privacy law, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, and turn them into controls.

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   • ○Laws & Frameworks: A Working MapCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Map one requirement to five practical duties, each with a control and an owner.

5. 5

   Step 5 of 10

   Manage privacy and IP risk

   Keep personal data and protected material safe when staff use AI.

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   • ○Data Privacy & Intellectual Property RisksCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Write one-page guidance for staff with five do and five do-not examples.

6. 6

   Step 6 of 10

   Check fairness and be transparent

   Run a simple fairness check and keep accountable records.

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   • ○Fairness, Transparency & ExplainabilityCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Run a small fairness check on an invented table and write the system card entry.

7. 7

   Step 7 of 10

   Assess vendors

   Ask the right questions before a new AI tool goes live.

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   • ○Third-Party & Vendor RiskCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Write ten vendor questions and five contract points for an email-drafting tool.

8. 8

   Step 8 of 10

   Test controls and make oversight real

   Prove that controls work and prepare for audits.

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   • ○Testing Controls, Oversight & AssuranceCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Design a control test with a sample, a planted error and an interview.

9. 9

   Step 9 of 10

   Handle incidents and regulators

   Plan the governance side of an incident, and learn from near misses.

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   • ○Incidents, Reporting & RegulatorsCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

   Before you move on: Fill in the first-hours checklist and write a five-line holding statement.

10. 10

    Step 10 of 10

    Get interview-ready

    Solve governance cases aloud with a method, and show real artifacts.

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    • ○Governance Interviews & Case PracticeCourse: AI Governance & Risk Lead

    Before you move on: Answer the bank loan assistant case aloud in ten minutes and write the decision memo.