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AI Privacy, Safety, and Responsible Use

AI Privacy, Safety, and Responsible Use is a self-paced AIvanced Academy course (8 lessons, 1h 10m).

Use AI tools at work without putting private, client, or company information at risk. Learn what is safe to share, how to check AI output, and what to do when something goes wrong.

Length: 1h 10m
8 lessons in 3 modules
Level: Beginner
Certificate of completion
Price: $9.99 one-time, lifetime access

Also included with Academy Membership ($29.99/month or $249.99/year) and with a Teams plan. See pricing

About this course

AI tools can save time on writing, summarizing, and organizing. They also create new ways for private information to leave your company, for mistakes to reach clients, and for scammers to fool staff.

This beginner course is for everyday staff in small and medium businesses: office teams, sales, managers, and healthcare and home-care workers. No technical background is needed.

In about 70 minutes you will learn what happens to the information you type into AI tools, how to recognize sensitive and regulated information, and how to get useful help from AI while sharing only the minimum necessary. You will practice using approved tools only, checking AI output before you use it, keeping people in charge of important decisions, and reporting mistakes quickly and honestly. You will also learn to spot AI-powered scams such as fake voices and convincing phishing emails.

Every lesson uses short, realistic workplace scenarios and hands-on practice. The course does not give legal advice. It builds safe habits that work alongside your own company's policies.

Topics: privacy, confidential information, approved tools, fact-checking, scams and phishing, deepfakes, human approval

What you'll learn

Explain what can happen to information typed or uploaded into an AI tool, and why company-approved tools and work accounts matter.
Recognize sensitive, confidential, and regulated information, including personal details, health information, client records, credentials, financials, and internal plans.
Rewrite AI requests using the minimum necessary information, placeholders, and fictional examples.
Check with the right person before using any AI tool, extension, plugin, or connector that your company has not approved.
Verify AI output for errors, made-up facts, and bias, and take ownership of the final work.
Keep a qualified person in charge of important decisions and require human approval before AI sends, publishes, or buys anything.
Respond to an AI-related mistake the right way: stop, keep the record, and report it promptly.
Spot common signs of AI-enabled scams, deepfakes, and phishing, and verify requests through a known channel.

A Try It exercise called "Your first prompt": a short scenario about moving a team meeting from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., then numbered steps to send a prompt in ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude, paste the reply, and note one thing to keep or change. — An example from AI Foundations, Lesson 1. Lessons in AI Privacy, Safety, and Responsible Use work the same way: you do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this course's first lesson free

A quick check question about an AI tool that confidently states a rent late fee. The answer "It may be a guess, because the tool can't see Fernhill's leases" is marked correct, with an explanation of why asking again proves nothing and the fact should be checked in the lease. — An example from AI Foundations, Lesson 1. Lessons in AI Privacy, Safety, and Responsible Use work the same way: you do the task in your own AI tool, then a quick check explains the answer. Try this course's first lesson free

Course outline

Module 1: Protect the Information You Share

Where Your Words Go When You Use AI (free preview)
What Counts as Sensitive Information
The Minimum Necessary Habit

Module 2: Use the Right Tools and Stay in Charge

Use Approved Tools and Accounts Only
Check the Output: You Own the Work
Keep a Human in Charge

Module 3: When Things Go Wrong

Mistakes, Scams, and Speaking Up
Final Assessment

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