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Entrusting your data to an AI assistant without putting yourself at risk

Before you upload a document to an assistant, ask three questions: what this file is about, which service it goes to, and who answers if it leaks. A consumer service is set account by account; a business plan rests on a signed contract. Then take out the identities: a name or a file number does nothing for the task requested, and the text you get back is just as usable.

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What is this course about?

Decide in a quarter of an hour what you can upload to an assistant, on which service, and what you remove first.

This is a core course: the material taught is the same for everyone, only the examples, the tools mentioned and the people you deal with change with your job. It has 3 sections, of which 1 section is followed by a quiz, and reads in 20-30 min. The legal framework cited is French law.

Nobody told you where the file went

You paste three lines of a document into an assistant, the answer arrives, the day goes on. The file, meanwhile, has gone to a provider whose name, country and commitments you do not know. It does not matter every time. It matters sometimes, and nothing warns you. Telling the difference, before you paste, changes what you can entrust to an assistant from your structure.

Key points

The four questions that come up every time you upload

They come in this order, for a quote as much as for a tracking table.

  • What is in this file that I would not write in public
  • Which service does it go to, and who authorised it
  • Does a written commitment cover this use, or only my habit
  • What can I remove without losing anything of the task requested

What you will be able to do

  • Place what you already entrust to third parties and what has to stay with you.
  • Decide what you entrust to an assistant, to which service and under which contract.
  • Settle what never leaves and which tool the rest goes through.

The first 4 slides, free

What you read with no account and no card. Here, the generic version; in the player, the examples take the vocabulary of your job.

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Generic version
You paste three lines of a document into an assistant, the answer arrives, the day goes on. The file, meanwhile, has gone to a provider whose name, country and commitments you do not know. It does not matter every time. It matters sometimes, and nothing warns you. Telling the difference, before you paste, changes what you can entrust to an assistant from your structure.

Real extract from the free slide “Nobody told you where the file went” of this course.

  1. FreeSlide 1 of 13 · Before you upload anything to an assistant

    Nobody told you where the file went

    You paste three lines of a document into an assistant, the answer arrives, the day goes on. The file, meanwhile, has gone to a provider whose name, country and commitments you do not know. It does not matter every time. It matters sometimes, and nothing warns you. Telling the difference, before you paste, changes what you can entrust to an assistant from your structure.

  2. FreeSlide 2 of 13 · Before you upload anything to an assistant

    What you will be able to decide by the end

    • Choose the service that suits each type of data
    • Prepare a document in three minutes before you upload it
    • React when identifying data has already left
  3. FreeSlide 3 of 13 · Before you upload anything to an assistant

    The four questions that come up every time you upload

    They come in this order, for a quote as much as for a tracking table.

    • What is in this file that I would not write in public
    • Which service does it go to, and who authorised it
    • Does a written commitment cover this use, or only my habit
    • What can I remove without losing anything of the task requested
  4. FreeSlide 4 of 13 · Before you upload anything to an assistant

    Where do you stand?

    One question before you read on: it is about what you already do, not about what you ought to do.

    1 short questions, marked immediately, inside the course.

These 4 slides can be read in the player, with no account and no card.

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Programme

3 sections, 13 slides and 4 quizzes in total. Each content section ends with a quiz that checks it has been learned.

  1. IntroductionFree

    Before you upload anything to an assistant

    Place what you already entrust to third parties and what has to stay with you.

    • 4 slides
  2. SectionSubscribers

    Your data, and what leaves your premises

    Decide what you entrust to an assistant, to which service and under which contract.

    • 7 slides
    • Section quiz: 5 questions
  3. RecapSubscribers

    Your action plan

    Settle what never leaves and which tool the rest goes through.

    • 2 slides

9 slides are for subscribers

The first four slides of this course can be read without an account and without a bank card. From the fifth on, the €29.99/month incl. VAT subscription is needed. The Beginner level quiz, though, stays free: it measures your level without asking you for anything.

Subscribe, €29.99/month incl. VATPlay the Discovery quiz, free

How your level is measured

  • Beginner
    Questions drawn
    10
    Pass mark
    70 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 30
    Time limit
    20 min

    Free, no account and no subscription.

  • Intermediate
    Questions drawn
    12
    Pass mark
    75 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 36
    Time limit
    24 min

    Subscribers only, once the Beginner level is passed.

  • Expert
    Questions drawn
    15
    Pass mark
    80 %
    Question bank
    ≥ 45
    Time limit
    30 min

    Subscribers only, once the Intermediate level is passed.

The level shown for a course is the highest level you have passed, with your best score and its date. Questions are drawn at random on every attempt. Play the Beginner quiz for this course or read how we measure your level.

Which jobs is it for?

Common core: the examples change with your job, what is taught stays the same. It addresses all 58 jobs in the directory. See courses by job.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use a consumer AI assistant for my work?

For a text that contains nothing from your work, yes. As soon as a document carries a name, a price or an internal detail, no: a personal account rests on no commitment made to your organisation. Ask in writing which tool is covered, and in the meantime work on content emptied of every identifier.

Does anonymising a document before uploading it degrade the answer?

No, in almost every case. An assistant works on the structure and the reasoning of the text, not on the identity of the people named in it. Mask the names, remove the annexes containing figures, keep the rest: you get the same analysis. You then put the real details back into your own version, which only you have in front of you.

How does this course fit into the artificial intelligence theme?

It deals with one precise question: what you entrust to an assistant. The other courses in the theme explain how a model produces text, how to write a useful prompt, how to check an output and how to fit the use into your week. The theme exam measures your level across all of them and issues a personal certificate.

What can I read without a subscription?

The first four slides of every course are available without an account and without a subscription, as is the Beginner level quiz. From the fifth slide onwards, the €29.99/month incl. VAT subscription is required. Creating a free account unlocks no extra slide: it keeps your progress, your job and your results.

How is my level measured?

By three level quizzes: Beginner (10 questions, 70 % to pass), Intermediate (12 questions, 75 %) and Expert (15 questions, 80 %). The level shown is the highest level passed, with the best score obtained and its date.

Who writes and who reviews this course

  • Skillrung team

    Editorial team of skillrung.com

    The skillrung editorial team writes the courses from the publications of the French and European authorities: ANSSI, CNIL, Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, Légifrance and EUR-Lex. Every figure is tied to its primary source, dated and verifiable from the course page. The team does not stand in for an expert reviewer: every course intended for publication is reviewed by a named professional of the field concerned, whose name and review date appear on the course page.

Artificial intelligence assisted the drafting. Editorial responsibility for the published text remains human.

Statements with regulatory scope verified on .

Sources

Every figure stated in this course points to a primary source, dated and verifiable.

  1. Règlement (UE) 2024/1689 établissant des règles harmonisées concernant l'intelligence artificielle

    EUR-Lex : Journal officiel de l'Union européenne, published on

  2. Recommandations de sécurité pour un système d'IA générative

    ANSSI, published on

What Skillrung is not

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  • A Skillrung certificate of completion is not a diploma, not a professional title and not a qualification registered in any national register. It records a result obtained in an unsupervised online assessment, on a given date.
  • Taking a Skillrung course does not make your organisation compliant and does not replace the obligations that fall on your employer or on you.
  • Our content is educational. It is neither legal advice, nor medical advice, nor a security audit.
  • For a self-employed professional or a company, the subscription is a deductible business expense : confirm this with your accountant.

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