AI-Proof Your Operations, Part 1: What Your AI Tools Are Actually Doing to Your Business

Session focus heading: Map your AI footprint and start your inventory

Most small businesses run AI in three layers: tools you chose, AI inside software you already pay for, and tools your team started using without a asking or telling you.

This session explains what that means for data, consent, and risk, without scare tactics. You will start an AI tool inventory you can finish before Part 2. Provided as fill in the blank.

• See the three layers of AI exposure and why Layer 3 is easy to miss

• Understand what happens to data you type, upload, or say in common tools

• Apply the “helpful stranger” frame to decisions about client and employee information

• Start the AI Tool Inventory Worksheet (handout from your Small Business Center)