Outcomes

What You Will Be Able to Do

Apply the AI Boss method: start from people and problems, and let AI earn its place in the workflow.
Triage any task into delegate, collaborate, or keep-human using a four-question filter.
Build the business case with honest numbers, including the verification tax most ROI decks conveniently forget.
Classify data before it goes near a model, and stop the leaks that made global headlines.
Recognize prompt injection and deepfake social engineering, and install the procedures that defeat both.
Design a pilot, write a usable AI policy, and lead a rollout your team actually adopts.

The Evidence

What the Numbers Say

74%

of companies report struggling to achieve and scale measurable value from AI. Adoption is easy; value is a leadership problem.

BCG, "Where's the Value in AI?" (2024)

$4.9M

average cost of a data breach in 2024. A careless paste into the wrong tool is a data transfer like any other.

IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024

#1

Prompt injection holds the top spot on the OWASP list of security risks for LLM applications. Every AI system that reads external content inherits it.

OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications

+14%

productivity from one well-chosen deployment (support agents with an AI assistant), concentrated among newer staff. Chosen well, the gains are real.

Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond, NBER 31161 (2023)

Curriculum

6 Lessons, 10 Minutes Each

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1 The Method: People First, Problem Second, AI Last Why most AI initiatives stall, and the ordering that fixes it 10 min › 2 Task Triage: Delegate, Collaborate, or Keep The four-question filter • Task triage game 10 min › 3 The Honest Business Case Value, adoption, and the verification tax • ROI calculator lab 10 min › 4 Guarding the Data Classification before conversation • Data classification game 10 min › 5 The Adversary: Prompt Injection and Synthetic Social Engineering Attacks that target the model and the human • Find-the-injection puzzle 10 min › 6 Rollout: From Pilot to Policy Making it stick without making it scary • Rollout decisions game 10 min › ★ Final Exam & Certificate 20 questions • 80% to pass • your name on the certificate 20 min ›

Demystified

Glossary: Every Term, Plain Words

Augmentation: AI as a power tool with a human in charge. The human absorbs the error rate.

Automation: AI replacing a human step entirely. Demands low stakes or strong guardrails.

Jagged frontier: The uneven boundary of AI competence: brilliant on one task, misleading on its neighbor. Task selection is navigating this line.

Verification tax: Human time spent checking AI output. The price of safety; budget it in every business case.

Shadow AI: Unsanctioned AI use through personal accounts, usually created by bans without alternatives.

Data classification: Sorting information by harm-if-leaked (public, internal, confidential, restricted) before deciding where it may go.

PII: Personally identifiable information: anything that identifies a real person. Heavily protected by law in most jurisdictions.

Prompt injection: Malicious instructions hidden in content an AI reads, hijacking it away from its operator's intent.

Least privilege: Granting a system only the permissions its job requires. The first question to ask about any AI agent.

Human in the loop: A required human approval between AI output and consequential action.

Out-of-band verification: Confirming a request through a second channel the requester does not control. The deepfake killer.

Pilot: A scoped experiment: one team, one problem, one metric, a few weeks, then a decision.