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Part I: The Origin of AIFC

18. AI as External Expert Capacity

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Another metaphor helped clarify AI governance.

AI should be treated like an external expert or consulting agency.

A company would not normally invite an external consulting firm into its internal systems without:

  • purpose,
  • scope,
  • NDA,
  • budget,
  • access limits,
  • owner,
  • review,
  • deliverables,
  • confidentiality boundary,
  • exit plan.

Yet many organizations use AI with fewer boundaries than they would use for human consultants.

This led to the concept:

AI as External Expert Capacity

AI has broad external knowledge.

It can apply that knowledge inside the community.

Therefore, it needs a boundary.

This became the AI-NDA Boundary.