Part 5: Your 10-Minute Setup

Module 4 · Section 6 of 6

Part 5: Your 10-Minute Setup

If you do nothing else from this module, do these five things before closing this tab:

1. Open your ChatGPT settings and check whether “improve the model” is enabled. If yes, turn it off.
2. Open your most-used AI tool’s privacy settings and read the data retention section. Note what tier you are on.
3. Check your installed browser extensions and remove any related to AI that you did not deliberately install or no longer use.
4. Set a spending limit on any API key account you have. This caps damage from a compromised key.
5. Write down the “separate channel verification” rule somewhere you will see it: for any unusual financial request or request for system access, you call back on a number you already know. Not a number in the message.

These five steps take less than 10 minutes and address the most common failure modes in the incidents documented in this course.

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Module 5 addresses the team dimension: how to build these habits into a shared working environment without creating policies so restrictive that people route around them.