Operationalizing AI Risk & Reality

This unit guides learners to translate AI ethics, legal awareness, and risk mitigation into actionable business operations — from simple safeguards to a 90‑day implementation plan and ongoing governance. Students will apply protections against deepfake liability, assess generative media consequences, and design maintenance strategies that prepare small businesses for future technological change.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze legal, ethical, and reputational risks associated with deepfakes and generative media and identify corresponding mitigation strategies for a business context
• Apply a set of simple technical and administrative safeguards to a sample small-business scenario to demonstrably reduce exposure to synthetic-media liability
• Demonstrate a sequenced 90-day implementation plan (first 30 days, days 31–60, days 61–90) that establishes foundational systems, testing procedures, and rollout activities for AI tools
• Evaluate and propose an ongoing maintenance and governance policy that addresses monitoring, updates, incident response, and ethical use to futureproof operations