Happy New Year!
Here’s your brief of the people, ideas and technology I’m exploring for Not for Profit leaders.
In this Edition: Risks from the speed of IT change, a new kind of AI notetaker, the latest cybersecurity breaches… and More!
What I’m thinking about:
Speed of IT Change
I subscribe to dozens of newsletters and periodicals and attend a ridiculous number of conferences and webinars to keep up with changes that could impact my Not for Profit clients. While it’s my role to sift through all this information, in reality, most of it is just noise with very little relevance.
So, how can you keep up with the changes with your limited time? Here are some ideas.
New Concerning AI Notetaker
There’s a new kind of AI notetaker on the market, and they will NOT show up as a bot this time. Granola.ai allows users to take notes in meetings by simply listening to the video call without anyone else knowing.
Furthermore, they use a company called AssemblyAI to process the data, which has some troubling reuse of data rules that a Granola customer cannot control directly.
There’s no technical fix to prevent 3rd parties from using these kind of tools in your meetings. So, my only suggestions are to block its use in your org and to ask at the start of any sensitive meetings for people to declare if they are using such tools. And if you are really concerned, make them sign an NDA that requires full disclosure of AI tool usage in advance of use.
What I’m reading:
- ChatGPT to introduce ads to free versions. If your staff are using the free version, I highly recommend considering the Business/Team versions to avoid these ads and for stronger privacy and access controls. Plus, you can create some team efficiencies by sharing your chats and trained agents.
- More cybersecurity breaches are impacting the education sector, with hacks at the Victorian public schools and the University of Sydney.
- How’s the Australian social ban working for the under-16s? Here’s the official government view and how kids are apparently getting around it. What are your kids’ and young clients’ experiences with it?
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Tammy Ven Dange is a former charity CEO, Association President, Not for Profit Board Member and IT Executive. Today she helps NFPs with strategic IT decisions, including cybersecurity risk mitigation.
