VIRTUAL: What Everyone Needs to Know: The Safe Use of AI

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What Everyone Needs to Know about the Safe Use of AI, a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Webinar. AI is everywhere lately. Are you using AI? Are you using is safely? Do you know what is safe to share with a chatbot? Are you aware of how AI is making it easier for scammers? This is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so the City of Alexandria, the Commission on Information Technology, and Computer CORE are hosting a free cybersecurity educational event for the residents of the city. This virtual event focuses on the safe and effective use artificial Intelligence in our lives. A panel of experts will discuss your questions and address: • What is artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs) — how they work, how they are different • The danger posed by the use of AI scams and the exploitation of software vulnerabilities • How to construct an LLM prompt that gets the results you intend • What LLMs are good at (and can safely be used for) and what they are not good at (and should not be relied upon) • The importance of validating their results • The dangers of sharing sensitive information and the risk to personal privacy.