Using AI in Your Business: The Risks of AI
This short course explains the main risks that come with using AI in a business, including inaccurate outputs, bias, data leakage, intellectual property issues and new security threats such as prompt injection and voice-cloning fraud. You will learn how over-reliance and poor use of AI can cause reputational harm, and why AI has an environmental cost. Finally, you will learn practical ways organisations and individuals manage these risks.
- Modules
- 3
- Duration
- About 22 minutes
- Pass mark
- 80%
- Assessment
- 8 questions from a bank of 12
Learning outcomes
- ✓Recognise the risks of inaccuracy, hallucination, bias and discrimination in AI outputs.
- ✓Explain how AI use can lead to data leakage and intellectual property problems.
- ✓Identify AI-related security threats, including prompt injection, AI-powered phishing and deepfake fraud.
- ✓Describe the risks of over-reliance, reputational harm and environmental cost.
- ✓Apply practical controls, including approved tools, human oversight, testing and incident reporting.
Course contents
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Module 1: Accuracy, bias, data and intellectual property
Video (4 scenes) · 1 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Module 2: Security threats and fraud
Video (4 scenes) · 1 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Module 3: Wider risks and managing them
Video (4 scenes) · 2 lessons · 2 practice questions
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Final assessment & certificate