An AI Manifesto is a powerful tool for any small business. It’s your public declaration of how you will use AI responsibly, ethically, and in alignment with your company's core values. It builds trust with customers, guides your team, and turns AI from a source of uncertainty into a strategic advantage.

This document provides a comprehensive template with guiding questions. By thinking through and answering these questions, you will gather all the necessary ingredients to create a customized, authentic, and impactful AI Manifesto for your business. You can then use your answers to write the manifesto yourself or feed them into an AI to generate a first draft.

Part 1: The Guiding Questions - Building Your Manifesto’s Foundation

Take the time to answer the following questions thoughtfully. The more specific your answers, the better your final manifesto will be.

• Section A: Your Company's Identity
• Section B: Your Core Philosophy on AI
• Section C: Stakeholder Commitments
• Section D: Your Core Principles
• Section E: Governance and the Future
• Section F: Tone of Voice

Part 2: The Master Prompt - Generate Your AI Manifesto

Once you have answered the questions in Part 1, you can use the following "Master Prompt" with a large language model like Gemini or ChatGPT to generate a draft of your manifesto. Simply copy the prompt below and paste your answers into the designated sections.

The Master Promp

Act as an expert in AI governance and corporate communications. Your task is to write a compelling and authentic AI Manifesto for a small business based on the information provided below.

The final manifesto should be approximately one page long, written in clear, professional, and approachable language. It should be structured with an introduction, a set of core principles, and a concluding commitment statement.

**1. Company Identity & Values:**
- **Mission:** [Your answer to Section A, Question 1]
- **Core Values:** [Your answer to Section A, Question 2]
- **Culture:** [Your answer to Section A, Question 3]

**2. Core AI Philosophy:**
- **Stance:** [Your answer to Section B, Question 1]
- **Primary Goal:** [Your answer to Section B, Question 2]

**3. Stakeholder Commitments:**
- **Customers:** [Your answer to Section C, Question 1]
- **Employees:** [Your answer to Section C, Question 2]
- **Community:** [Your answer to Section C, Question 3]

**4. Core Principles & Guiding Questions:**
- **Principle 1:** [Name of your first chosen principle]
  - **Our Commitment:** [Your answer to the guiding question for this principle]
- **Principle 2:** [Name of your second chosen principle]
  - **Our Commitment:** [Your answer to the guiding question for this principle]
- **Principle 3:** [Name of your third chosen principle]
  - **Our Commitment:** [Your answer to the guiding question for this principle]
- **(Add more principles as needed)**

**5. Governance and Future Commitment:**
- **Accountability:** [Your answer to Section E, Question 1]
- **Review Process:** [Your answer to Section E, Question 2]
- **Adaptability:** [Your answer to Section E, Question 3]

**6. Tone of Voice:**
- The manifesto should be written in a **[Your chosen tone from Section F]** tone.

Based on all of this information, please now compose the AI Manifesto for [Your Company Name].