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What AI First Principles is, how it was built, and who it is for.
What is AI First Principles?
AI First Principles is an open-source framework of 12 principles for organizations and teams responsible for operationalizing AI. It exists to address a gap: most AI governance frameworks focus on policy and compliance, but the people actually building and deploying AI systems inside organizations needed something practical, something they could use day to day.
The principles are not rules. They are ways of seeing, grounded in lived organizational experience.
How it was built
The principles were developed and validated by a community of AI thought leaders, practitioners, researchers, and designers across industries. Contributors include people from organizations such as NVIDIA, Google, Meta, Slack, ServiceNow, Adobe, and Harvard Business School. The framework reflects collective experience, not a single point of view.
Explore the contributors →How it is maintained
AI First Principles is an open-source project maintained on GitHub. The principles are versioned and proposals for changes are made through the repository. The project is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, meaning anyone is free to share and adapt the material with attribution.
Who it is for
Any team charged with operationalizing AI responsibly. Product managers, engineers, designers, executives, and organizational leaders navigating AI transformation.