AI use grows faster than policy
Employees already use AI daily. Policy, training, and oversight lag behind actual practice in teams and departments.
The Intelligence Covenant Institute is an independent foundation and think tank that researches and designs the social contract with AI at the institutional level. Through The New Intelligent Covenant, we translate that thinking into briefings, scans, and sprints.
Independent foundation, think tank and publication platform for essays, research, and intelligence briefings on the institutional AI question.
Read more →The intellectual framework - three principles and seven organisational layers for responsible AI use.
Read more →The separate commercial advisory practice: executive briefings, AI Covenant Scans, and Sprints that apply the framework inside your organisation.
Read more →Employees already use AI daily. Policy, training, and oversight lag behind actual practice in teams and departments.
IT, HR, compliance, and line management each hold a piece, but no one owns the whole. The social contract with AI is never made explicit.
AI literacy without institutional agreements gives employees tools without clear boundaries, oversight, or correction mechanisms.
For whom
The Institute is for organisations where AI is already inside, but ownership, data boundaries, training and oversight are not yet organised firmly enough.
From public thinking to concrete application. Essays build the body of thought. The Intelligence Brief tracks developments. Executive briefings translate insights into leadership choices. Scans make the gap visible. Sprints design the first workable operating model.
In-depth essays and briefings for leaders who want to govern AI institutionally.
Foundational essay
Why responsible AI starts with schools, companies and public organisations, not with legislation or models
The social contract with AI is not formed in parliaments or model labs, but in schools, teams, boardrooms and service desks. Organisations are the fourth party, and they must become that in practice.
For: Board members, school leaders, CIOs, HR directors and compliance leaders
NIC Advisory translates the New Intelligent Covenant into concrete interventions for boards, CIOs, HR, and compliance leaders.
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Compact session: the Covenant model, your context, and the governance questions on the table now
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Diagnostics of policy, shadow AI, training, oversight, and responsibility against the Covenant framework
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Focused implementation sprint with cross-functional team: norms, guardrails, ownership, and escalation
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Bi-weekly intelligence on governance, human judgment, and the common good. No hype - rigorous editorial thinking.
On The New Intelligent Covenant - the Institute's framework.