Using AI Tools Safely and Effectively

Event description

This AI-focused seminar helps small business owners use AI tools safely and effectively by establishing clear guardrails that preserve accuracy, protect sensitive information, and maintain control over business content. Participants will learn how to define non-negotiable elements such as financial data, legal language, and key terminology, while guiding AI to improve clarity without altering meaning or structure. The session emphasizes the importance of step-by-step editing, requiring change summaries, and maintaining backups to minimize risk. AI is a powerful assistant, but business owners must set boundaries, verify outputs, and stay accountable for final results to best use this this technology to help their businesses.

Key Takeaways:

Set strict boundaries for AI use: Clearly instruct AI not to change critical data like numbers, names, legal terms, or business-specific language.

Maintain control and accuracy: Require AI to preserve meaning, provide change summaries, and work through documents in small, reviewable steps.

Protect information and reduce risk: Remove sensitive data before use, keep backups, and always compare AI outputs to the original document.

Presenter:

Doug Lineberry, Intellectual Property Attorney, MaynardNexsen