AI policy: adopt the Cour de cassation's method
Key points
On October 22, 2026, the Cour de cassation published its AI ethics charter. Six principles, like many organizations have written. What is new lies elsewhere, in its annex.
On October 22, 2026, the Cour de cassation published its AI ethics charter. Six principles, like many organizations have written. What is new lies elsewhere, in its annex. A table sorts each use into one of three boxes: allowed, allowed under conditions, to be excluded. And it does so twice, depending on whether the tool is controlled by the Court or external.
Summarizing a published circular: allowed everywhere. Drafting an internal note: allowed on the internal tool, and on an external tool only without personal data or confidential information. Legally qualifying facts: to be excluded, whatever the tool.
An agent does not have to interpret principles. It reads a line.
The same grid for a company #
Here is an example, to adapt with your teams and your counsel:
| Use | Controlled tool | External tool |
|---|---|---|
| Summarize a public document | Allowed | Allowed |
| Draft an email or an internal note | Allowed | Without personal or confidential data |
| Analyze a customer contract | Under conditions | To be excluded |
| Screen job applications | To be reviewed with HR and your counsel | To be excluded |
A tool is "controlled" when three facts are established:
- the edition is subscribed by the company, under contract;
- you know where the data is processed;
- the vendor does not train its models with it.
Everything else is external, including the tool everyone knows, used in the wrong edition.
The column nobody knows how to fill #
Writing the rows takes an hour. The hard part is the columns. Which AI tools are running at your company, including those turned on by default in the software you already pay for? Which AI applications have been given access to your data, and who granted it?
Without that list, the charter describes an imaginary estate. Each employee then has to guess which column the tool in front of them belongs to.
The Court asks everyone to read the terms of use of the tools they use. The requirement is fair. But no employee can meet it for ten tools whose terms change with each version. It has to be met continuously, for everyone.
Start with the list #
Ojja's free readout reads your Microsoft 365 with your administrator's consent, without changing anything in it. Google Workspace: very soon. You get the list of the AI that has access to your data, and to what. That is the column of your charter.
Sources
- Cour de cassation, Ethics charter on the use of AI systems (in French),
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