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Module 3 · Lesson 7 · Week 3

AI Safety Habits: Accounts, Devices and the Human Backup

Operational security for everyday AI users

⬇ Study guide PDF

In this lesson you will

  • Implement account and device hygiene for AI tools
  • Maintain human-original backups of critical work
  • Recognise AI-adjacent scams and phishing

Account and device hygiene

Unique password per AI account via a free password manager; two-factor authentication on your email first (it resets everything else); dedicated email for AI services; log out on shared devices; keep apps updated; beware 'AI' apps that are data-harvesters in disguise.

The human backup rule

Never let AI-held content be your only copy. Keep originals of documents, photos and prompts in your own storage. Services vanish and change terms; your portfolio must outlive any vendor.

AI-adjacent scams

Voice-clone kidnapping calls, AI-written phishing with perfect grammar, fake 'AI investment' schemes, and paid 'certificates' that certify nothing. Rules: verify unexpected urgent calls via a known number; no AI tool needs your ID or bank login; real courses show curriculum and assessment, like this one does.

Key terms

2FA

Two-factor authentication: a second proof at login.

Password manager

Tool generating/storing unique passwords.

Vendor lock-in risk

Dependence on one service holding your only copies.

Voice-clone scam

Fraud using synthesised familiar voices.

🛠 Hands-on task: Hygiene sprint

Tools: Free password manager + your email settings

  • Enable 2FA on your primary email today.
  • Move AI accounts to a dedicated email; unique passwords.
  • Back up your PoE folder to your own storage (not just the AI tool).
Key takeaways: Before you go, three takeaways from this lesson. One: Implement account and device hygiene for AI tools. Two: Maintain human-original backups of critical work. Three: Recognise AI-adjacent scams and phishing. And your hands-on task: hygiene sprint. Enable 2FA on your primary email today. When it is done, mark the lesson complete on your dashboard, keep the artifact for your portfolio, and step into the next lesson. I will see you there.
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