A world first for our profession, built the way a first should be: in the open, by the community itself.
Why it exists: across almost 2,800 responses in our “Who Decides?” series, “AI should have no role in asset management” scored exactly 0%. Full autonomy barely scored either. The question was never whether — it’s where the boundary sits. Today the community’s answer is live.
Built across four public webinars and three review cycles, judged line by line by a volunteer working group — final pass: 162 votes, zero objections. Inside:
- Seven principles for AI in asset-management decisions
- A six-level ladder, from assistant to autonomous
- A 12-row Decision Rights Matrix, set by practitioners’ own votes
- A nine-question boundary test, the action envelope and the engineered stop
- Records that make oversight verifiable — and a getting-started path for any size of organisation
“Thank you to every volunteer who took part in the webinars and joined the working group. Version 1.0 is a minimum viable framework, and that is deliberate: AI moves in weeks, so we will iterate fast. Prediction, trend analysis and image recognition are yesterday’s AI — the real power arrives when AI drafts, reasons and acts inside human-set boundaries. This framework was built exactly that way: AI drafted, the community judged, a named human signed. Join the next iteration.” — Kai Dong, Project Chair
Read v1.0 — and every vote behind it: https://projects.amcouncil.com.au/human-ai-boundary/
Join us for the official launch — Webinar 5: Thursday 24 September, 1:00–1:30 pm AEST. Register: https://www.amcouncil.com.au/event/webinar-the-boundary-drawn-launching-the-human-ai-boundary-framework-for-asset-management/