AI Safety Expert

Artificial intelligence is creating new opportunities for productivity, customer experience, innovation, and business growth. It is also introducing risks that organizations cannot afford to overlook.

Employees may unintentionally share sensitive information, rely on inaccurate AI-generated content, use unapproved tools, or make decisions without sufficient human oversight. Organizations need practical AI safety strategies that protect their information while allowing employees to benefit from the technology.

AI safety expert Chris Cheetham-West helps leaders and employees understand how to use artificial intelligence responsibly. Through keynote presentations, corporate training, workshops, consulting, and media commentary, Chris makes AI safety easier to understand and apply in the workplace.

Chris and the LR Training Solutions team help organizations create a culture in which employees can use AI confidently, responsibly, and productively.

What Is AI Safety?

AI safety focuses on reducing the risks associated with developing, adopting, and using artificial intelligence.

For businesses and other organizations, AI safety includes protecting sensitive information, reviewing AI-generated content, reducing bias, maintaining human oversight, and establishing clear expectations for how employees should use AI tools.

Common AI safety concerns include:

Employees entering confidential information into public AI tools
AI generating inaccurate or misleading information
Teams using unauthorized AI platforms
Biased or unfair AI-supported decisions
AI-generated content being shared without proper review
Employees becoming overly dependent on AI
Cybercriminals using AI for scams, impersonation, or misinformation
Organizations adopting AI without sufficient policies or training
Customers not knowing when they are interacting with AI
Leaders lacking visibility into how employees use AI

Chris helps organizations understand these risks and take practical steps to address them without creating unnecessary fear or preventing innovation.

Why AI Safety Matters for Every Organization

AI tools are becoming part of everyday work. Employees are using them to write emails, analyze information, summarize documents, conduct research, prepare presentations, assist customers, and make recommendations.

Without proper training and guidance, this activity can create risks for the organization, its employees, and its customers.

A strong approach to AI safety can help organizations:

Protect confidential and sensitive information
Reduce the spread of inaccurate AI-generated content
Establish appropriate levels of human review
Improve employee awareness and accountability
Create consistent expectations across departments
Reduce unauthorized or unsafe AI use
Strengthen customer trust
Prepare for emerging AI risks
Support responsible innovation
Increase confidence in workplace AI adoption

AI safety should not be treated only as a technology issue. It is also a leadership, communication, training, and workplace culture issue.

Practical AI Safety for the Workplace

Chris focuses on making AI safety relevant to the responsibilities employees handle every day.

Instead of relying only on technical explanations, he uses practical scenarios to show employees where risks may appear and how to make better decisions.

Workplace AI safety training can address questions such as:

What information should never be entered into an AI platform?
How should employees review AI-generated content?
When is human approval required?
Which AI tools are approved by the organization?
How can employees identify inaccurate or incomplete responses?
What should employees do if an AI tool produces biased content?
How should teams communicate their use of AI?
When should customers be informed that AI is being used?
How can employees recognize AI-generated scams or impersonation?
What should leaders do when employees use unauthorized AI tools?

These discussions help employees understand both the benefits and responsibilities associated with artificial intelligence.

AI Safety Training for Employees

Employees are often the first line of defense against unsafe AI use. They need more than a policy document. They need clear examples, practical guidance, and opportunities to apply what they have learned.

Chris and the LR Training Solutions team provide AI safety training for:

Executive leadership teams
Managers and supervisors
Human resources departments
Marketing and communications teams
Sales professionals
Customer service teams
Finance and accounting employees
Administrative professionals
Operations teams
Technology departments
Company-wide employee groups

Training can include live demonstrations, workplace scenarios, group discussions, role-playing exercises, case studies, and examples customized for the organization’s industry.

AI Safety Topics for Keynotes, Workshops and Training

Programs can be customized around the organization’s technology, workforce, industry, and level of AI adoption.

Topics can include:

Responsible AI Use

Employees learn how to use AI in ways that support the organization’s standards, customers, and business goals.

Protecting Sensitive Information

Participants examine the types of confidential, personal, financial, customer, employee, and proprietary information that should not be entered into unapproved AI systems.

Identifying AI Hallucinations

Employees learn why AI platforms sometimes produce inaccurate or fabricated information and how to verify important claims before using or sharing them.

Maintaining Human Oversight

Teams explore when AI can assist with a responsibility and when a qualified person must review, approve, or complete the work.

Reducing Bias

Participants learn how bias can appear in AI-generated recommendations, hiring materials, customer communication, marketing content, and other business applications.

Managing Shadow AI

Leaders learn how employees may use unapproved AI tools without the organization’s knowledge and how training, communication, and approved alternatives can reduce this activity.

Recognizing AI Scams and Deepfakes

Employees learn how AI can be used for phishing, impersonation, fraudulent messages, fake audio, manipulated images, and other deceptive activities.

Reviewing AI-Generated Content

Participants learn how to evaluate AI-generated emails, reports, research, images, presentations, and recommendations before using them.

Creating Workplace AI Guidelines

Leaders explore the questions that should be addressed when creating or improving internal guidance for responsible AI use.

Building a Responsible AI Culture

Organizations learn how leadership communication, employee involvement, ongoing education, and clear expectations can support safer AI adoption.

AI Safety Consulting and Adoption Guidance

Organizations are at different stages of AI adoption. Some are beginning to explore AI, while others already have employees using several platforms across multiple departments.

Chris and the LR Training Solutions team can help organizations:

Identify common workplace AI risks
Improve employee awareness
Develop responsible-use recommendations
Communicate approved AI practices
Identify high-risk use cases
Strengthen human-review processes
Prepare department-specific guidance
Address shadow AI
Support leadership discussions about AI adoption
Create customized employee training
Build a long-term AI education initiative

The purpose is to help organizations balance innovation with responsibility.

AI Safety Keynote Speaker

Chris delivers AI safety keynote presentations for conferences, leadership meetings, corporate events, employee programs, government agencies, universities, and professional associations.

Presentations can explore how AI is changing workplace risk, why responsible adoption matters, and what organizations can do to prepare employees.

Potential keynote topics include:

AI Safety in the Workplace
Responsible AI Adoption
The Human Side of AI Safety
Shadow AI: The Risks Leaders Cannot Ignore
Building Trust in an AI-Driven World
AI Scams, Deepfakes and the Future of Digital Trust
Balancing AI Innovation and Responsibility
Preparing Employees for Safe AI Use

Sessions can be delivered as a keynote, leadership briefing, interactive workshop, panel discussion, half-day program, full-day program, or multi-session initiative.

AI Safety, Governance and Security

AI safety, AI governance, and AI security are connected, but they are not identical.

AI safety focuses on reducing harm and helping people use AI responsibly.

AI governance establishes the internal policies, responsibilities, approval processes, and oversight structures that guide AI use.

AI security focuses on protecting systems, data, and technology from unauthorized access, attacks, and other technical threats.

Chris primarily helps organizations with the people, training, communication, adoption, and workplace-use aspects of AI safety. Programs can complement the technical work performed by cybersecurity, legal, privacy, compliance, and information technology teams.

Industries That Can Benefit from AI Safety Training

AI safety affects organizations across nearly every industry, including:

Financial services
Healthcare
Government
Legal and professional services
Education
Manufacturing
Energy
Transportation and logistics
Retail
Hospitality
Real estate
Insurance
Marketing and media
Nonprofit organizations
Technology companies

Each program can be customized to reflect the information, responsibilities, customers, and risks within the organization’s industry.

About AI Safety Expert Chris Cheetham-West

Chris Cheetham-West, MBA, is an international keynote speaker, author, and artificial intelligence expert who helps organizations understand emerging technology and apply it responsibly.

In his former role at Google, Chris helped introduce new technologies to organizations and supported marketing strategies for major brands. Today, he is the founder of LR Training Solutions, a firm that provides customized training, consulting, workshops, and keynote presentations.

Chris has delivered in-person presentations in 48 U.S. states and worked with audiences in Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Serbia, and other international locations. He has also appeared on Fox and ABC news stations to discuss artificial intelligence, technology, safety, and business trends.

Organizations including Microsoft, Goodwin, Tractor Supply, the Government of Canada, Charles Schwab, Lamar Advertising, Mercedes-Benz, and others have trusted Chris and the LR Training Solutions team to deliver practical strategies that improve productivity, strengthen leadership, and support responsible technology adoption.

Frequently Asked Questions About AI Safety Experts

What does an AI safety expert do?

An AI safety expert helps organizations understand and reduce the risks associated with artificial intelligence. This may include employee training, responsible-use guidance, risk awareness, human oversight, data protection, governance discussions, and preparation for emerging threats.

Why should employees receive AI safety training?

Employees may use AI without understanding how the platform handles information or how inaccurate results can affect their work. Training helps employees recognize risks, protect sensitive information, review AI-generated content, and follow organizational expectations.

What is responsible AI?

Responsible AI refers to using artificial intelligence in ways that are ethical, transparent, secure, fair, and aligned with human values and organizational standards. It also includes maintaining appropriate human oversight.

What is shadow AI?

Shadow AI occurs when employees use AI tools that have not been approved or monitored by their organization. This can expose confidential information, create inconsistent work practices, and make it difficult for leaders to understand how AI is being used.

Can AI safety training be customized?

Yes. Training can be customized based on the organization’s industry, audience, approved technology, internal policies, experience level, and business goals.

Does AI safety training prevent employees from using AI?

No. Effective AI safety training helps employees use AI more confidently and responsibly. The goal is to support innovation while reducing avoidable risks.

Can the session cover ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Claude?

Yes. Programs can include ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Claude, and other AI tools used or considered by the organization.

Can Chris help with an AI policy?

Chris can help leaders identify the workplace questions, employee responsibilities, training needs, and responsible-use topics that an internal AI policy should address. Legal, compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, and technology professionals should review policies that affect regulatory or technical requirements.

Are virtual AI safety programs available?

Yes. AI safety keynotes, training programs, workshops, and leadership sessions can be delivered virtually or onsite.

Who should attend AI safety training?

AI safety training can benefit executives, managers, employees, human resources teams, technology professionals, marketing departments, customer service representatives, and anyone who uses or manages artificial intelligence in the workplace.

Bring an AI Safety Expert to Your Organization

AI adoption is moving quickly, but responsible adoption requires education, communication, and human judgment.

Chris Cheetham-West and the LR Training Solutions team provide AI safety training, keynote presentations, workshops, consulting, and customized employee programs for organizations in the United States, Canada, and other international locations.

Contact Chris to discuss an AI safety program designed around your organization’s workforce, technology, industry, and goals.

With the right training and guidance, your organization can benefit from artificial intelligence while protecting its information, employees, customers, and reputation.

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