Learning outcomes
- Explain how to recognise when qualified human help and authoritative sources are essential.
- Complete the guided activity safely.
- Check that you can avoid treating ChatGPT as a professional decision maker.
Privacy, Safety and Responsible Use
High-Stakes and Sensitive Topics
Learn to recognise when qualified human help and authoritative sources are essential and avoid treating ChatGPT as a professional decision maker in this beginner-friendly ChatGPT lesson.
Before you begin
Use sample information. Follow your organisation's AI, privacy, copyright, security and records-management policies.
Step-by-step instructions
- Open ChatGPT Settings and Data Controls and confirm you are using the intended account or workspace.
- Classify sample medical, legal, financial and safety questions.
- Pause and check privacy, permissions, source material, feature availability and any instruction that affects the task.
- Review the result carefully and confirm that you can avoid treating ChatGPT as a professional decision maker.
- Save only the useful, verified output and record one improvement for your next prompt.
Ian's practical tip: Start with fictional or non-sensitive information. Treat the first response as a draft, then verify facts, sources, calculations and permissions before using it.
Practical activity
Classify sample medical, legal, financial and safety questions. Your expected result is to avoid treating ChatGPT as a professional decision maker.