Whether you use AI tools yourself or want nothing to do with them, if you share educational materials, run a community, or work with clients, you may want to have a written AI policy. In this episode, I share the one I created for Bloom and Grow, which is still very much a working draft.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why practitioners who don't use AI still need a policy

• The four parts of the Bloom and Grow AI policy: note-takers in live sessions, scraping and uploading community content, disclosing AI use when sharing case studies, and keeping forum interactions human.

• The existence of invisible AI note-takers (the kind that don't show up as Zoom participants)

• What I can and can't control, and why I chose to include these things in my policy anyway.

• The difference between a community/course AI policy and a personal AI policy

• One way that I'm experimenting with AI in my own practice: SOAP note drafting from session transcripts, using a HIPAA-compliant tool with client disclosure.

• Off the Grid Podcast with Amelia Hruby - especially the episodes about how to write a thoughtful AI policy (and the others in the AI series!)

• 0:00 - Introduction

• 0:11 - Why you should keep listening even if you hate AI discourse

• 0:56 - Credit to Off the Grid podcast for shaping my thinking

• 1:29 - Two policies I'm working on: community vs. personal

• 3:33 - Reading the Bloom and Grow AI policy

• 3:45 - No AI note-takers in live sessions

• 6:17 - No scraping or uploading B&G content to LLMs

• 8:32 - Disclose AI use when sharing case studies for feedback

• 8:46 - Keep forum and chat interactions human

• 9:48 - What's coming: my personal AI policy for the website

• 10:07 - What I'm actually experimenting with right now (SOAP notes)

• 10:55 - Why your AI stance is worth making visible