Planetizen iconPlanetizenAug 27, 2026 ~1 min source read

Does everyone need an AI policy?

05:00 A few months ago, as I started thinking about setting up my own consulting practice, I came across a challenging question. I use AI tools every day in my work, and I spend a good deal of my time thinking about how planning agencies can get ready to use them.

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05:00 A few months ago, as I started thinking about setting up my own consulting practice, I came across a challenging question.

I use AI tools every day in my work, and I spend a good deal of my time thinking about how planning agencies can get ready to use them.

Yet the longer I thought about it, the more I realized I had already made a dozen or so quiet decisions about how I use these tools.

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05:00 A few months ago, as I started thinking about setting up my own consulting practice, I came across a challenging question. I use AI tools every day in my work, and I spend a good deal of my time thinking about how planning agencies can get ready to use them. Yet the longer I thought about it, the more I realized I had already made a dozen or so quiet decisions about how I use these tools.

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  • That gap, between the rules we follow and the rules we have actually thought through, is the focus of this month's column.
  • The question I want to work through is easy to ask and harder to answer: does everyone need an AI policy?

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So, for a one-person endeavor, did I need my own AI policy? It felt like overkill to write a governance document for a company of one.

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