Lesson 1.5 - Safe and Responsible AI Usage for Individual Testers

Learning objective

Use AI without risking your job or your company.

Chapter 5 / Objective 5

As an individual contributor, you must be careful about what you share.

Never share

• Production data
• Customer PII (Personal Information?)
• Company secrets
• Proprietary code (unless explicitly allowed)

Safe practices

• Anonymize examples
• Replace real names with placeholders
• Use simplified versions of data

Example:
Instead of pasting real logs, remove:

• User IDs
• URLs
• Tokens

Ethical responsibility

AI output does not remove accountability.

If a test fails because of an AI-generated script:

• You are responsible

Key takeaway

Use AI as a tool-not a shield.