AI & Privacy: Simple Rules for Everyday Use

What you’ll explore

• Explain why personal information needs protecting when using AI tools, and how AI tools actually handle the information typed into them
• Apply the simple "real person" rule to decide, quickly and consistently, what's safe to enter into an AI tool
• Recognise the specific categories that need extra care — customer and client information, colleague information, health and financial information, and children's information
• Use the three-second privacy pause before entering sensitive information into any AI tool
• Know when and how to seek guidance before entering sensitive information into AI, and commit to their organisation's AI safe-use standards with a specific, signed personal action plan

Who it’s for

All employees who handle personal information and use AI tools as part of their work, regardless of role or technical background Organisations rolling out AI tools business-wide who need every staff member working from the same shared privacy baseline Anyone new to using AI at work who needs the essential privacy guardrails before they run into a problem, not after