The Community Bank AI Governance Handbook: The Definitive Guide to AI Risk, Oversight & Compliance - Paperback

by John Jr. Humphrey (Author)

The Definitive Guide to AI Risk, Oversight & Compliance for Community Banks

Artificial intelligence is already inside your bank-embedded in fraud detection, lending platforms, customer service tools, compliance software, and the vendor products you rely on every day. The question is no longer whether community banks will use AI. It's whether they will govern it before regulators, examiners, or a costly incident force the issue.

The Community Bank AI Governance Handbook is the first comprehensive governance program written specifically for community banks. Rather than adapting frameworks built for the world's largest institutions, it delivers a practical, proportional program your existing staff can run-sized to your bank's scale, risk profile, and resources. Whether you're starting from zero or formalizing an existing program, it shows you how to build one that fits.

Inside you'll learn how to:

- Build an enterprise AI governance program from the ground up

- Identify every AI system in your bank-including vendor-embedded and employee-adopted tools

- Classify risk across four tiers and focus oversight where exposure is highest

- Establish an AI Governance Committee and define board responsibilities

- Adopt policies for generative AI, vendor AI, and employee AI use

- Govern agentic AI before the first agent goes live

- Apply existing regulations-model risk, fair lending, third-party risk, privacy, and information security-to AI

- Prepare for examinations and quarterly board reporting

This 390+ page handbook includes:

- A practical 90-Day Quick Start you can run with the staff you already have

- 17 chapters covering strategy, governance, regulation, technical controls, and oversight

- 8 realistic case studies-from the first agent incident to the exam that went right

- 12 appendices of completed governance documents-policies, committee charter, board report, AI inventory, vendor questionnaire, risk assessments-shown the way an examiner would actually see them

- A regulatory reference guide, examination request list, glossary, and NIST AI RMF crosswalk

Whether you are a board member, CEO, Chief Risk Officer, CIO, CISO, compliance officer, internal auditor, or technology leader, this book provides the practical program to govern AI responsibly, protect your institution, and adopt new technology with confidence.

Foreword by Riley Adams, Chief Risk Officer at a community bank.

John Humphrey Jr. is Vice President of Information Technology and Information Security Officer at a community bank. He lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.