AI is already in the everyday work of recreation and community services. Program descriptions, patron emails, meeting notes, public notices, and internal policies are being drafted and rewritten faster than they were a year ago.

Yet there is a risk gap forming. The gap is consistency. Clear expectations protect privacy, public trust, and accountability. Without them, people fill in the blanks under time pressure, and practices drift site to site.

This session introduces the Responsible AI Governance Toolkit and grounds it in what Alberta municipalities are actually publishing right now. We will share a practical scan of the patterns showing up in municipal policies. We will cover where guidance is becoming clearer, where definitions still leave staff guessing, and where enforcement tends to be missing. The goal is simple. Help leaders move from “we should have something” to “we have a workable starting point.”

You will leave with a minimum set of guardrails you can adapt with your IT, legal, and risk partners.

• Ownership: who answers questions and approves use
• Basic data rules and classification
• Verification and disclosure norms for public facing work
• and more