# AI Governance Charter Template

## 1. Purpose
Define the authority, operating rhythm, roles, controls, and evidence requirements required to govern AI-enabled systems and autonomous agents.

## 2. Scope
This charter applies to AI systems, AI-enabled applications, machine-learning models, generative AI tools, autonomous agents, vendor-provided AI services, and workflow automations that support, recommend, initiate, or execute organizational decisions.

## 3. Governance Principles
- Decision authority must be explicit.
- Evidence must be captured for consequential decisions.
- Controls must be proportional to autonomy and consequence.
- Human judgment must be applied at the right altitude.
- Governance must be measured for both risk reduction and decision velocity.

## 4. Roles
- Executive Sponsor
- AI Governance Lead
- System / Agent Owner
- Data Owner
- Security Control Owner
- Legal / Privacy Advisor
- Evidence Steward
- Adoption Lead
- Workflow Owner

## 5. Required Records
- AI / agent inventory
- Autonomy tier register
- Decision-rights matrix
- Control overlay
- Decision evidence log
- Exception and incident register
- Metrics dashboard

## 6. Review Cadence
Define meeting frequency, approval thresholds, exception review, incident reporting, and executive reporting.

## 7. Measurement
Track inventory coverage, evidence completeness, ungoverned action, incident recurrence, adoption, and decision-cycle time.