# AI safety for WHO work

AI assistants are powerful, and most of their risks are managed by a few
simple habits. These four rules apply to **every** AI tool and **every**
task — from drafting an email to analyzing indicator data.

## The four rules

### 1. No confidential data 🔒

Never upload personally identifiable information (PII), classified
documents, or sensitive member state communications. Before uploading a
file, ask yourself: *would I email this file to an external consultant?*
If the answer is no, do not upload it.

### 2. Always verify ✅

AI can make mistakes — and its mistakes look as polished as its correct
answers. Cross-check facts, statistics, citations, and **methods** (see
*AI → When AI gets it wrong* for how an outdated methodology can slip
through unnoticed).

### 3. You are accountable 🖋️

AI assists; **you decide**. Every output that leaves your hands carries
your name and your professional judgment, not the AI's. Review anything
an AI drafts before it reaches a colleague, a counterpart, or the public
— the human stays on the send button.

### 4. No medical or policy decisions on AI output alone 🚫

Do not use AI outputs as the sole basis for clinical or policy
recommendations. AI is an input to human judgment, never a substitute
for it.

## Daily habits that keep you safe

- **Start low-stakes.** Summaries, first drafts, and formatting are the
  right first tasks. Move to analysis only with verification habits in
  place.
- **Ask AI to show its work.** "State the method and assumptions you
  used at each step" turns a black box into something you can check.
- **Give the current rules, don't assume them.** Upload the methodology
  note, the definitions, the weights. AI's knowledge has a cutoff date;
  your documents do not.
- **Keep a record.** For any analysis that feeds a report, note which
  tool, which prompts, and which files were used — reproducibility
  applies to AI-assisted work too.
- **Check organizational guidance.** Rules for AI use in your office may
  evolve; follow the current WHO guidance where it exists.

## Getting started

- **Claude (claude.ai)** — create an account with your work email; a free
  tier is available for trying the basics.
- Start with the **AI → Prompt gallery** page in this app: copy a prompt,
  adapt the brackets, and iterate.
- When a task starts to matter, move up the ladder in
  **AI → Prompting levels**: light to explore, middle to guide, strong to
  control.
- Prompt inspiration: the Anthropic prompt library at
  `docs.anthropic.com/en/prompt-library`.

> **Start small. Be curious. Iterate.**
