Risk-Tiered AI Governance Checklist Executive Edition—Four Tiers, Scaled to Actual Risk

AI outputs are treated by courts and regulators as the company’s own speech. If your AI system can influence a customer, a decision, or a regulated outcome, you are responsible for what it says or does. This checklist gives you a structured way to scale governance with risk — without slowing down innovation. Governance must scale with exposure. The four tiers below map to the actual risk your AI systems create, not the hype around them.