AI Amnesty Questionnaire

What it is

The structured instrument for running an AI amnesty: ten sections capturing which tools employees actually use, the use cases they serve, the data they touch, the value already created, and the risks encountered, turning unknown unknowns into a governable inventory.

An AI amnestyGlossaryAI AmnestyThe time-boxed programme that brings shadow AI under governance: a declaration window, typically 30 to 45 days, in which employees disclose all AI tool usage without fear of punishment, followed by the post-amnesty roadmap of rapid triage, governance guardrails, pilot launch, and ongoing operations. Its declarations populate the AI/ML register, and its findings are read with the AI Amnesty Questionnaire. For a Board, the no-reprisal commitment must be real and followed by visible action, otherwise disclosed usage simply retreats back into the shadows.AI Amnesty is a Methodology within the Remake framework.Find out more → only works if people can tell the truth easily and safely — and if what they tell you arrives in a form the organisation can govern. The questionnaire is that form: the structured instrument the amnesty window runs on.

What it examines

The shadow AI estate, one declaration at a time: which tools are in use, the specific use cases they support, the types of data being processed, the value already being created, and the risks people have encountered — ten sections designed so nothing critical is missed and no declaration invites blame.

The readings

A governable inventory where unknown unknowns used to be: the tools and use cases to sanction, the data exposures to close, the value worth formalising, and the pattern of demand your official provision has been failing to meet.

Running it

Deployed inside the amnesty window, never outside one: the no-reprisal commitment comes first, the questionnaire second. Declarations arrive per person, per tool; the inventory assembles as they land. Close the window on time and act visibly on what was declared — the amnesty’s credibility is the instrument’s calibration.

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History

Provenance and revision history. Every asset in the library carries this record, so what you are applying, and which version of it, is never in doubt.

Asset

AI Amnesty Questionnaire

Kind

Diagnostic — assesses a current state and returns a reading

Status

Current

Version

2.0

Origin

Developed by Mario Thomas; introduced September 2025 in Shadow AI and the Case for an AI Amnesty as a PDF instrument, now part of the MyMT diagnostics suite

Registry

Recorded in the Remake Library and defined in the glossary

Versions

1. 2.0 August 2026 Rebuilt as a MyMT diagnostic; the PDF instrument de-published.
2. 1.0 September 2025 Introduced as a PDF instrument in Shadow AI and the Case for an AI Amnesty.