Free short course
The AI-Safe Desk
Decide what information you can use with an AI tool at work. Build a practical rulebook around approved accounts, data and review.
This course is free in full: every module, knowledge check and the final task, with no sign-up.
Before you paste a document or connect a service, check the task, the information and the account you are using. Product names alone do not tell you what your organisation permits.
This course uses workplace examples to help you recognise public, personal, confidential and restricted material. You will practise reducing unnecessary detail and identifying cases where you should stop and ask.
Finish with a short rulebook to discuss with your manager or data protection contact. It supports your organisation’s policy; it does not replace it.
By the end, you'll be able to…
- Explain in one sentence what happens to text you paste into a consumer AI tool, and why it matters.
- Sort any piece of workplace information into one of four risk bands in under ten seconds.
- Redact a real document so the AI can still help without the risk travelling with it.
- Tell the difference between a consumer tool, a work-licensed tool and an internal deployment, and know which to use for what.
- Write a one-page personal AI rulebook that would survive a conversation with your data protection lead.
What's in it
- Module 1: Where the words go
What actually happens to text after you press paste.
- Module 2: The four bands
A way to sort any piece of information in ten seconds.
- Module 3: Working safely anyway
Getting the value without the risk: redaction, settings and the right tool for the job.
- Module 4: Your rulebook
One page, in your own words, that you could show anyone.
- Finishing the course
One final task that puts the whole method to work on something real.