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15 Questions Organizations Pay AI Governance Professionals to Help Answer
Start your AI governance career, or build toward paid advisory work helping organizations make responsible AI decisions. No coding required.
Practical · Two pages · No codingThe Opportunity
Organizations need people who can help govern AI.
Organizations are adopting AI for customer service, hiring, analysis, operations, and decision support. Before any of those systems go live, someone has to help answer the hard questions: what exactly is being proposed, who could be affected, what data it touches, what could go wrong, and whether there is enough evidence to continue.
That is AI governance work, and organizations pay people to do it. Most are handing it to their governance, risk, compliance, and privacy people, and hiring more of them. Career changers from teaching, healthcare, admin, project management, the military, and customer service are making this move too, because the work runs on judgment, evidence, and clear writing, not code.
77%
of surveyed organizations are already working on AI governance, and nearly 90% of those already using AI. Only 1.5% said they would not need additional AI governance staff in the next 12 months.IAPP and Credo AI, AI Governance Profession Report, 2025
Two Ways to Use the Capability
One capability. Two professional paths.
Develop Toward Advisory Work
As your capability and experience deepen, help organizations make responsible AI decisions.
The 15 questions are where both paths begin.
What Is Inside
A concise guide, and one decision to try yourself.
This two-page guide shows you the questions practitioners ask before an AI system is approved, then lets you try one for yourself.
- The 15 questions practitioners ask before an AI system is approved, in five groups: purpose, people, data and third parties, risk and controls, oversight and decision
- A two-minute try-it exercise on TechFlow, a realistic company deciding whether to deploy an AI support assistant
- The five governance calls a practitioner can make on a proposal, from continue to stop
- The two ways people get paid for this capability: a career inside an organization, or advisory work for organizations
- A first look at the Applied AI Governance Pathway, from your first case to advisory practice
Who This Is For
The 15 Questions are for you if…
You are curious about AI governance, you want a technology career that runs on judgment and writing rather than code, or you already work in GRC, risk, compliance, audit, or privacy and want to point that experience at AI.
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