Is Your HR Function Prepared For AI Risk?
A practical governance readiness checklist for HR leaders navigating AI in hiring, performance, and workforce decisions.
AI is already influencing HR decisions across organizations - often faster than governance frameworks can keep up. This checklist helps HR leaders quickly identify where AI risk may exist and where early controls are needed.
This is not a technical audit or compliance exercise.
It's a leadership-level readiness check.
What The Readiness Checklist Entails
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
This resource is built specifically for:
- CHROs & Chief People Officers
- HR VPs and Directors
- Heads of Talent, People Operations, and Workforce Strategy
- HR leaders partnering with Legal, IT, or Risk teams
If AI touches people decisions in your organization - even indirectly - this checklist is relevant.
What You'll Assess
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
The checklist walks through four critical governance dimensions:
- AI Usage Transparency - Do you know where AI is influencing HR decisions today?
- Governance & Accountability - Is ownership clearly defined when AI impacts people outcomes?
- Policy & Compliance Alignment - Are AI practices aligned with internal policies and emerging regulations?
- Vendor & Tool Oversight - Are third-party AI tools governed beyond procurement?
Each section is designed to surface early risk signals - before they become legal, reputational or employee trust issues.
How To Use It
Who This Checklist Is Designed For
Checklist Serves As A Mini Audit Pre-Read
How to use the checklist:
- Review each statement honestly
- Check only what is fully true today
- unchecked items indicate potential governance gaps
Guidance:
Organizations checking fewer than 70% of the items often have elevated AI governance exposure - even if AI adoption feels limited.
This checklist typically takes 10 - 15 minutes to complete.
Checklist Serves As A Mini Audit Pre-Read
Checklist Serves As A Mini Audit Pre-Read
Checklist Serves As A Mini Audit Pre-Read
Why this Checklist Is Also A Mini Audit Pre-Read
Many HR leaders use this checklist as preparation for a deeper discussion.
Completing it in advance allows conversations to focus on:
- Prioritization instead of discovery
- Governance decisions instead of definitions
- Practical next steps instead of theoretical risk
If you choose to schedule an HR AI Mini Audit, this checklist becomes the starting point, not the end.
HR AI Mini Audit
Checklist Serves As A Mini Audit Pre-Read
HR AI Mini Audit
For HR leader who want an external perspective, Navigenz offers a focused HR AI Mini Audit designed to:
- Validate governance gaps
- Prioritize actions across HR, Legal, and IT
- Support executive and board-level discussions
This step is advisory, time-boxed, and optional.