Safety, Verification, and Privacy
Lesson 1: Sensitive Data Before AI
Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
- Spot personal, confidential, credential, and regulated data.
- Redact or generalize inputs before using AI.
- Choose lower-risk examples for practice.
Lesson Content
Before using AI, inspect the input. Do not paste passwords, API keys, customer records, payment details, medical information, legal case details, employee discipline records, or confidential contracts unless you have an approved business process and provider terms that allow it.
Use a privacy filter:
People: Names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, IDs.
Credentials: Passwords, tokens, API keys, private URLs.
Business secrets: Pricing models, unreleased plans, contracts, client lists.
Regulated data: Health, financial, legal, employment, or protected records.
If details are not required, replace them with placeholders.
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