Limits, ethics, and what you must not put in a prompt

After this lesson you can: Know what you can and cannot send to a third-party model at work.

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• Build Private Agentic AI Flows with LLMs for Data Privacy - IBM Technology, 7 min. Directly targets private LLM workflows and data privacy, matching workplace prompt-safety concerns for engineers.
• Protecting Data in AI: Strategies for Security & Governance - IBM Technology, 15 min. Data security and governance are the core decision framework for what must not enter prompts.
• Security & AI Governance: Reducing Risks in AI Systems - IBM Technology, 15 min. AI governance and risk reduction fit the professional responsibility side of third-party model use.

Notes

A third-party model is not just a clever text box; it is an external system that may log, process, retain, inspect, or route your input through infrastructure you do not control. At work, prompts can contain source code, customer records, credentials, incident details, contracts, internal plans, or regulated data. The safe default is to treat anything pasted into an external AI tool like data sent to a vendor: allowed only if policy, contract, classification, and business need all permit it.

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