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title: Managing policies in AI Control Tower
description: Create, change, or remove the policies that respond to detected threats or block AI usage.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-pol-managing-policies.html
release: australia
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-08-27"
reading_time_minutes: 1
keywords: [ServiceNow Otto, AI Agents, generative AI, agentic AI, Policies, Explicit Block, Threat Response]
breadcrumb: [Controlling AI asset usage, Govern AI assets, AI Control Tower, Enable AI experiences]
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# Managing policies in AI Control Tower

Create, change, or remove the policies that respond to detected threats or block AI usage.

## Managing policies workflow

Create a Threat Response policy to automatically contain an agent when a detected threat matches conditions you define, or an Explicit Block policy to stop specific AI usage outright.

Both policy types work the same way once published. Edit a policy to change what it enforces, clone it to try a variant without changing the original, or delete it to end its enforcement entirely. A policy has no pause or disable state, so deleting it is the only way to stop it from running.

Once a policy is published, confirm it's doing what you designed it to do. See [Reviewing policy enforcement in AI Control Tower](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/intelligent-experiences/gov-pol-reviewing-enforcement-activity.md).