Staying Safe & Discerning With AI

Before you start

Have your device and the AI app open. No live scam examples needed — just talk through these.

Walk-through

1. Revisit “confidently wrong” from Course 1, with real stakes this time. Any name, date, number, scripture reference, or fact AI gives you needs a real source check before it goes in front of the congregation or a client — the same rule as Course 3, restated because it matters most here.
2. AI voices and faces can now be faked. A phone call that sounds exactly like a family member or church member asking for money urgently, or a video that looks real but isn’t — these are increasingly made with AI. The countermeasure is simple and doesn’t require any tech skill: if a call or message creates urgency around money, hang up and call that person back on a number you already have saved, rather than reacting in the moment.
3. Fake emails and texts still work the same way, just written better now. AI makes scam emails/texts sound more polished and personal than the clumsy ones you may be used to spotting. The tell isn’t bad grammar anymore — it’s still urgency, unexpected requests for money or gift cards, or a link asking to “log in to verify” something.
4. Never paste sensitive information into an AI chat. No passwords, no social security numbers, no bank account numbers, no one else’s private information. Treat the AI chat box the same as a whiteboard in a public hallway — fine for drafts and ideas, not for anything you wouldn’t want seen.
5. When to just ask a person instead. Anything involving real money, a legal decision, or a medical question is a “go ask a real person” situation, not an “ask AI” situation — AI can help you prepare questions to ask that person, but shouldn’t be the final word.

Try it together

• Pull up one AI answer from an earlier session and fact-check one specific claim in it (a date, a name, a reference) to make the habit concrete.
• Talk through what you’d do if you got an urgent-sounding call or text asking for money right now — walk through the “hang up, call back on a saved number” habit out loud.

Before next time

• Nothing new to practice alone — this is a “keep it in the back of your mind” session, not a new skill.

Series wrap-up

Between the iOS series and this one, you now have the full loop: comfortable on both devices, comfortable talking to AI, using it for real prep and admin work, and knowing where the guardrails are. Future NC AI Services sessions from here should be need-driven — a new task you want help with, not a new fundamental.