🤖 AI Security - What Every Business Owner Should Know
AI tools can be game changers for small business owners and content creators. They help with marketing, budgeting, customer service and even content creation. You can use them as a personal assistant, but as with any form of delegation, trust but verify.
Here are some things to consider
Data Privacy - most AI tools learn from the data you feed them. If you paste in customer data, your financials, or confidential business details, you might be exposing sensitive and proprietary information without realizing it.
AI Risks
Accuracy - you may have heard of AI tools having “hallucinations”. That’s where the tool confidently gives you wrong information. Sometimes it’s benign, like giving you a 15-day plan with only 12 days in it. Other times, the wrong information can be very damaging to your business.
Impersonation - scammers and hackers are now using AI to create fake voices, emails and even online “people” that look and sound real. It makes it more difficult for you or your clients or team to know what is real and what is fake.
Intellectual Property Rights - if you rely on AI to create your content, who really owns it? Not everything you generate is guaranteed to be free of copyright concerns. Some US states like California are drafting copyright infringement laws covering AI-generated content.
🤖 So, What do We Do?
AI can be powerful, but it can’t replace you. Use it as an assistant, not an expert. You remain in control of your business.
Ways to Work with AI
Use AI tools for brainstorming or to help with productivity, but don’t feed it confidential data
Prompt AI to give you links to sources so you can verify any information you get
Educate your team and your customers about AI-enhanced scams.
🦄 Who is Suecurity?
Susan Richards aka Sue-curity
🌉 Background: Over 30 years in information technology with a passion for keeping people and data secure.
👑 Achievement: Hosts a weekly HITRUST Secrets discussion and nerds out about security topics.
☕ Quirk: An American patriot through and through, she still enjoys Irish breakfast tea in the mornings!
Bottom Line on Using AI Tools for Your Business
Don’t feed it what you don’t want shared to the universe.
Always double-check AI’s facts - you can ask it to give you the links where it obtained its facts and do the research yourself
Make sure your voice stays authentic. The last thing you want is generic content that no longer sounds like you.
🎆 The Good News
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit - Romans 15:13
Be safe,
