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Where can I find real-world company AI policies and best practices?

There are no established industry standards or best practices around AI right now, leaving professionals to figure it out on their own. Trying to piece together a policy using AI or searching for other companies' examples falls short, creating a desperate need for outside data.

Overview
People affected7 accounts across 4 forums
Workarounds found11 items attempted
Community agreement23 total upvotes

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

  • The most recent one is from October 2026.
  • This comes up 174.5× more often in Hacker News than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    Building custom configurations and deploying via CLI
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    Waiting for official platform tools and pricing
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    Implementing custom agents and bot-driven SDLC
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    Using AI to draft the policy
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    Searching online for other companies' policies
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    Using a policy provided by a third-party security training vendor
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    Clarify what data the agents can access and what permissions they have
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    Treating the AI neutrally and using "caveman speak" to save tokens.
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    Remaining polite strictly to preserve good interpersonal habits for human interactions.
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    Using the AI as an outlet to blow off steam and vent frustration so as not to do it to family.
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    Acting nice only when trying to make the AI do something borderline or shady.
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In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/sysadmin2 people · October 2026

“I am a little bit confused about the security part”source ↗

“When do I need Agent 365?”source ↗

AdditionDisastrous78 · r/sysadmin · 11 upvotes

“I think the confusion is that Copilot Pro and Agent 365 solve different problems.”source ↗

saurabh3228 · r/sysadmin · 1 upvotes
Hacker News3 people · October 2026

“I am usually talking nice to my agent, because I am worried that if I trash talk it all day long, it's going to become a habit and I am going to start trash talk other people.”source ↗

“But sometimes the agents do a lot of irritating skin, and being a total asshole to a robot seems to calm my nerves the same way swearing aloud do.”source ↗

d--b · Hacker News · 5 upvotes

“I still drop in a "please" occasionally, and less frequently a "nice work". Partly out of habit, but mostly because I don't want the way I communicate with agents to affect the way I communicate with humans on Teams or in emails. Or on HN.”source ↗

andyjohnson0 · Hacker News

“I act mean when it doesnt make a difference. Simply because i dont want to blow that steam off in front of my fellow family and friends”source ↗

AznHisoka · Hacker News
r/humanresources1 person · September 2026

“Trying to put one together with the help of AI, but also googling other companies' policies isn't working and I need outside data.”source ↗

TL20LBS · r/humanresources · 5 upvotes
r/salesforce1 person · September 2026

“the entire industry is dealing with there being no best practices around AI right now.”source ↗

TheRealSpork · r/salesforce · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

Hacker Newsr/humanresourcesr/salesforcer/sysadminartificial intelligencecommunicationenterprise softwarehuman resourcesIT administrationsoftware development

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