THE RULES NOBODY WROTE

A CHRO's Framework for Governing AI in People Systems Before the Regulator, the Lawsuit, or the Board Asks Why

De: Cody Horton

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Every CHRO is now accountable for AI decisions she did not make, using tools she did not choose, governed by rules nobody ever wrote down.

That accountability gap is already producing legal exposure, reputational risk, and harm to the people HR exists to protect. And most organizations are trying to close it with the wrong tool — prompt engineering, vendor audits, and compliance checklists that were built for a world where humans made the decisions.

The Rules Nobody Wrote gives CHROs the framework that's actually missing: Intent Engineering — the discipline of defining what your AI people systems are for, what they will never do, and who is accountable when they drift.

Cody L. Horton delivers a complete, practitioner-ready governance framework — the Intent Brief, Decision Boundaries, Measurement Discipline, and AI Operating Rhythm — built for the organizations deploying AI in hiring, performance, scheduling, and workforce management today.

Drawing on more than two decades leading people systems at Microsoft, Dell, and Walmart, and shaped by the command discipline of the U.S. Navy, Horton gives CHROs what they actually need: not another case for why AI governance matters, but a complete framework for building it — before the regulator, the lawsuit, or the board asks why.

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