Cybersecurity Awareness Month: AI Safety For Friends And Family
Security Boulevard, Thursday, October 10th, 2024
Happy October! The leaves are changing and everyone is starting to get ready for the upcoming holidays, but let's not forget one of the most important holidays of the year-Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
Though our audience is almost entirely cybersecurity experts, we wanted to put something together to help the less technical people in our lives learn more about AI and cybersecurity, because Cybersecurity Month is for everyone.
Fear of AI: A missed opportunity?
A long cultural history of sci-fi movies and books featuring all-powerful artificial intelligences that do not always have the best interests of humans at heart has scared many people away from using real-life AI technology in any form. Many at Mend.io believe this is a bad idea; workers and companies that shy away from utilizing AI miss out on the impressive capabilities AI tools provide and may be left behind.
You may have already heard of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot, as well as AI text-to-image programs like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, and we think you should use them, but with a few security points in mind.