Ethical and responsible use of publicly available generative AI requires alignment with the state’s policies, mission and goals. The following guidelines are human-centered with a focus on uses of AI that benefit North Carolinians and the public good. This requires assessment of publicly available generative AI tools and use cases to ensure that any tool used by the state is trustworthy AI. 

Users must:

• Never enter personally identifiable or confidential information into publicly available generative AI tools. 
• Seek supervisory and security review and written approval before entering any code into or using code generated by a publicly available generative AI tool.  
• Review, revise, test and independently fact check any output produced by publicly available generative AI.
• Be transparent and identify when content was drafted using publicly available generative AI.
• Always check privacy and security settings of the publicly available generative AI tool prior to use.
• For high-risk use-cases, disable chat history and opt out of providing conversation history as data for training publicly available generative AI models prior to use.
• Assess the risks of any use of publicly available generative AI and mitigate risks whenever possible.

Users should work with their agencies to:

•    Utilize publicly available generative AI tools that are deemed trustworthy.
•    Document all uses of publicly available generative AI.