Stop letting AI draft your liability—learn the preflight checklist that keeps your professional judgment human-owned and defensible.
This course provides a concise overview of the AI Decision Governance System (AI-DGS), a pre-flight decision framework that helps accountants stress-test AI-influenced work before it is signed, sent, released, or relied upon. Participants learn how AI redistributes judgment through fluent narrative, how liability now moves faster through language than numbers, and why traditional controls miss the “moment of reliance.” Using the aviation checklist metaphor, the course shows how to operationalize repeatable cockpit discipline across everyday artifacts (emails, memos, advisories, and press releases). Learners will apply a six-layer governance lens—representation integrity, judgment ownership, capability integrity, velocity, drift, and assurability—supported by practical “Gem” workflows and the Human Judgment Record. The emphasis is not on using AI better, but on governing AI-shaped conclusions so they remain human-owned, defensible, and replayable under scrutiny.
Topics Covered:
The “Quiet Shift” and why AI became a governance condition
Narrative risk vs. numerical risk in professional deliverables
AI-DGS Quick Start and the Human Judgment Record
Six-layer cockpit lens: representation, ownership, capability, velocity, drift, and assurability
Caloric vs. structural work and cognitive atrophy risk
Documentation trails as “flight data recorders” for defensibility
Scaling AI-DGS across artifacts and high-stakes releases
Target Audience:
Accountants, auditors, tax professionals, and finance leaders who use (or review) AI-assisted outputs and need a defensible governance protocol before others rely on their work.
MA, CMC, CITP/FITP
GARRETT WASNY, MA, CMC, CITP/FITP, is an artificial intelligence (AI) skills advisor to accountants, tax attorneys, enrolled agents, and tax preparers worldwide. His courses focus on the new intersection of accounting and technology, and provide guidance to practitioners on how to prosper in this dynamic age. His sessions demystify emerging cloud, mobile, and social applications, and explain in plain language how financial professionals can use these online tools to build trust, solve problems, and create new value. He’s also an award-winning Internet speaker, author, app developer, professional development specialist, and former management consultant for Price Waterhouse. He's published 50+ ebooks on computing and ethical issues related to accounting, written hundreds of articles and columns on Internet strategy, and delivered thousands of seminars and webinars to CPAs and accounting organizations around the globe.
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