Protect the people in your data
Do not enter sensitive beneficiary, donor, employee, health, legal, or financial information unless your organization has explicitly approved the tool and use.
RESPONSIBLE AI BASICS
Move carefully without standing still.
A short set of habits can help your nonprofit learn safely while more formal guidance develops.
Keep humans accountable
AI can recommend and draft. A person should own important decisions, commitments, external messages, and changes to records.
Use managed accounts
Organizational work belongs in organization-approved accounts with clear ownership, not personal accounts that leave when staff do.
Start read-only
Let a new workflow observe, summarize, or suggest before it can change anything. Add access only when the value and risks are understood.
Test with real examples
Use a small, representative test set. Check accuracy, bias, missed context, and the situations where the system should ask for help.
Document what works
Record the purpose, owner, data used, instructions, review step, known limits, and how someone can report a problem.