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Balancing Innovation and Risk: Integrating AI Security Awareness into Business Education
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT
BLDG T-924
As artificial intelligence becomes rapidly embedded in modern business workflows, students across disciplines are adopting AI platforms for productivity, analysis, and decision support, often without fully understanding the associated security and privacy risks. This presentation explores the design and delivery of Introduction to AI in Business, a collaboratively taught interdisciplinary course that intentionally integrated cybersecurity principles into a business-focused AI curriculum.

While the course introduced students to the strategic value and operational benefits of AI, it placed particular emphasis on the risks surrounding sensitive, personal, and proprietary information when using public and enterprise AI systems. Several course modules explicitly addressed data exposure, model training risks, prompt leakage, intellectual property concerns, and organizational policy considerations.

To better understand student perspectives, we conducted surveys measuring perceived risk, trust in AI platforms, and awareness of data security implications before and after targeted instructional interventions. This presentation discusses course structure, instructional strategies, and survey findings, highlighting how intentional cross-disciplinary teaching can improve student awareness of AI-related security risks while preserving an appreciation for AI’s transformative potential.

Attendees will gain insight into practical approaches for embedding cybersecurity literacy into non-technical curricula and fostering more security-conscious AI use across academic disciplines.
Speakers
avatar for Reed Nonken

Reed Nonken

Associate Professor Business, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Reed Nonken is an Associate Professor of Business at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he teaches across both the Business and Criminal Justice programs and plays a central role in curriculum design, assessment, and academic governance. He is a primary architect of UMPI’s... Read More →
avatar for Seth Woodman

Seth Woodman

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Program Director, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Seth Woodman is the Cybersecurity Program Director and Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI), where he leads curriculum development, program expansion, and applied learning initiatives across traditional and competency-based modalities... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 4:15pm CDT
BLDG T-924
  AI Emerging Technologies and Risk Implications, Presentation

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