From our 2026 webinar for Nonprofit Builder, presented by AlignIQ co-founders Dan Garmat and Caroline Stauss.
A short clip on one of the most common risks we see: people are already using AI, and the organization’s rules haven’t caught up.
Key takeaways
- Staff adoption outpaces governance. People will use AI however they want a lot of the time.
- Governance is internal regulation: guardrails for how a technology is used inside the organization.
- The question is no longer whether to govern AI use, but how.
Try this with your team
Ask your team, anonymously if that helps: which AI tools are you using for work right now? Compare the answers with what your policy covers.
Going further
Find the gaps in your current rules with the free AI Policy Health Check, or close them with Ethical AI Guardrails.
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Transcript
Lightly edited from YouTube’s automatic captions for readability. Wording and order are the speakers’ own.
The reality is that staff adoption outpaces governance. One thing we have to deal with is the fact that people are going to use AI however they want a lot of the time. So adoption within an organization outpaces governance.
Governance is really just the idea that with technology, there needs to be some sort of internal regulation and guardrails.