AI in Practice for Managers

Managing people who use AI raises questions that using it yourself does not. You are answerable for work you did not write, produced with tools you may not have chosen, by people who may not have told you they used them. This session is about that layer of responsibility - knowing what your team is doing, reviewing what comes to you, and setting expectations that people will actually follow.

It builds on the core AI in Practice session, so delegates arrive already knowing how these tools behave and where the risks sit for an individual user. The focus here is the oversight that sits on top - what you are accountable for, how to have a useful conversation about tools nobody approved, what to ask when a report lands on your desk, and how to use AI safely in your own management work, including one-to-ones, appraisals and recruitment, where the information involved is about your own people.

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Objectives

• Explain what you are accountable for when the people you manage use AI and relate it to the conduct standards that apply to them.
• Recognise where AI is being used in your team and open that conversation without driving it further out of sight.
• Review work you did not produce, asking the questions that reveal whether AI-assisted output has actually been checked.
• Apply data protection and fairness standards to your own use of AI in people management.