AI Safety

Staying Safe While Using AI

AI is powerful and useful. It also creates new risks. Here is how to protect your privacy, money, and identity.

5 min read Beginner

Do not share sensitive personal information. Avoid pasting your Social Security number, bank details, or passwords into any AI tool.

AI can be confidently wrong. This is called a hallucination. Always verify important facts with a trusted source.

Watch for deepfakes. AI can clone voices and faces. If a 'family member' calls with an urgent money request, hang up and call them back directly.

Read the privacy terms. Know whether a tool saves your conversations or uses them for training.

Use strong, unique passwords and turn on two-factor authentication for any account connected to AI tools.

Safety is part of digital literacy. We teach it in every Community AI 360 program.

This article is original educational content from Community AI 360. External tool recommendations should be independently verified before use. Always read a tool's privacy terms before sharing personal information.

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