Shelter operations resource
AI boundaries checklist
Give staff and volunteers a usable boundary between drafting assistance and work that must remain human.
The current AI-assist is limited to sourced public-profile wording. It cannot own the record, judgment, accountability, or relationship behind an animal placement.
01
AI may prepare
- Draft organization-owned public-profile wording from entered source facts.
- Label the result as AI or deterministic template output.
- Leave the result editable and unsaved until a person chooses to save it.
- Preserve unknowns instead of filling them with guesses.
02
A human must decide
- Approve or hold a public profile.
- Review an applicant and decide the next action.
- Interpret medical, behavior, disability, or special-needs context — never convert it into a risk score.
- Override, escalate, or stop the workflow.
03
Never automate
- Placement decisions or applicant rejection.
- Adopter ranking or paid ranking.
- Public profile publishing.
- Shelter policy or professional judgment.
- Manufacturing certainty when the source is missing, stale, or conflicting — stop and name who takes over.
- Treating a photo as anything more than context.
04
Visible safeguards
- Mark AI-prepared work.
- Keep the source attached.
- Name the human reviewer.
- Record the final action and reason.
- Named reviewer
- Escalation path
If this worksheet surfaces a specific handoff problem, WhiskerMatch can start with that one workflow while the rest of your tools stay in place.
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