This is John Batchelor, conversation with my colleague Gene Marks, the small business columnist for the Guardian newspaper for the Philadelphia Enquirer, also writing on Forbes about artificial intelligence for small business, warning signs, policy, Gene explains.

As a small business, you need a written policy to tell your employees what can and cannot be used because there are dangerous just turning loose the AI apps without knowing where they're going or what they can do to your business and to someone else's opinion.

So, Gene has a good recommendation here.

Gene Marks, small business columnist on warning signs on artificial intelligence in a business

environment.

More of this later.

You know, it was a, we were talking in the last segment about how the government, you know,

you know, Trump's, you know, your technology people are going to be coming up with regulations around AI.

But it might, my recommendation, anybody running a business is don't wait for the government to come out with regulations.

I'm not that confident they're going to keep up to all the changes as fast as they're happening in the world of AI.

It's up to us as companies to come up with our own controls over AI.

And, John, I got to tell you, when I talk to people and when I go to my clients and particularly larger companies,

companies that, you know, I've got their arms around where things are going,

they're all putting, they're all creating AI policies, John. You know, like, and every company

should have an AI policy. An AI policy is a written policy that lays out what AI apps are

allowed to be used, maybe what specific AI apps are not allowed to be used. Your

policy should have in writing what individuals or departments are allowed to use AI in which

individuals and departments are not allowed to use AI. That policy should also step out how your

company goes about evaluating and approving

AI tools and what processes and applications your AI tools can be used for. All of this needs

to be in writing. And the reason why I'm shared with your employees so that everybody knows what

they're allowed to do and not. And the reason why I push this,

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