AI Literacy Lab

Job Aid

Before using AI at work, run the quick check.

This is the practical spine of the lab: decide what AI may help with, what data is safe, what must be verified, who owns the final work, and when to stop.

Before Prompting

  • Is this an approved tool for this task?
  • What data class is involved?
  • Can names, account details, or confidential facts be removed?
  • Is AI helping draft or organize, rather than decide?

Before Relying

  • Which facts, numbers, dates, links, and commitments need checking?
  • What is the source of truth?
  • What claims are unsupported, overstated, or too confident?
  • Who could be affected if this is wrong?

Before Sending

  • Who owns the final decision or message?
  • What should be documented?
  • What would trigger escalation?
  • Would this affect pay, hiring, access, complaints, discipline, safety, or rights?

Stop and ask when

  • The tool, data, policy, or review owner is unclear.
  • The work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or business-sensitive information.
  • The output could affect someone’s opportunity, access, money, reputation, or safety.
  • The answer needs current facts that you cannot verify.
  • You are being asked to use AI to rank, deny, approve, discipline, or deprioritize people.