The Challenge

Generative AI arrived faster than most organisations and schools were ready for. Employees are using AI tools before companies have policies in place. Students are submitting AI-assisted work before teachers understand what that means. The gap isn't just about technology; it's about ethics, privacy, and critical thinking.

As part of their ongoing commitment to cybersecurity education, Palo Alto Networks produced CyberFit Nation: The Future of AI Unfolds – a short docuseries hosted by Olympic snowboarder Scotty James exploring AI's real-world applications, possibilities, and risks. Cyberlite cofounders Michelle Yao and Nina Bual were featured contributors, bringing educational perspectives on AI safety for young people and families.

The docuseries sparks curiosity and raises important questions—but awareness alone doesn't build skills. Palo Alto Networks needed companion training materials that could translate the series' themes into practical, hands-on learning for two very different audiences: corporate teams navigating AI in the workplace, and educators helping students become responsible AI users.

What We Developed

Working with Palo Alto Networks, we designed two companion toolkits to sit alongside the docuseries:

1. AI Ethics and Security Toolkit (For Workplaces)

2. AI Safety in the Classroom (For Educators)

AI Ethics and Security Toolkit (For Workplaces)

A series of five 60-minute workshop modules designed for corporate teams. Each session combines real-world case studies, ethical decision-making exercises, and live AI demonstrations, structured to work as standalone lunch-and-learns or as a progressive series.

The modules move from foundational understanding to specific workplace risks:

1. What is AI Anyway?: Building shared understanding of generative AI's capabilities and limitations

2. AI or Human? Deepfakes, voice cloning, and impersonation threats in corporate fraud and phishing

3. Making Decisions with AI: Bias, incomplete data, and the speed-vs-fairness trade-off in high-stakes environments

4. AI Personalisation: How algorithms shape workplace tools, newsfeeds, and employee wellbeing

5. Privacy & Security in an AI World: What's safe to share with AI tools and why internal guidelines matter

AI Safety in the Classroom Toolkit (For Educators)

A set of four 30-minute lessons designed for secondary students, with ready-to-use slide decks, lesson plans, and student handouts. Each lesson pairs short videos from Palo Alto Networks' CyberFit Nation series with hands-on activities and discussion prompts.

The lessons build critical thinking progressively:

1. What is AI Anyway? How generative AI learns, prompt engineering basics, recognising bias in outputs

2. AI or Human? How deepfakes are created, their risks, and detection skills

3. AI for Environmental Good: Ethical AI applications and designing AI-for-good solutions

4. AI Recommendation Engines: Data collection, personalisation trade-offs, and algorithmic bias

Design Principles

Built around the docuseries. The CyberFit Nation videos provide the conceptual foundation; our toolkits provide the application layer. Participants watch, then do — moving from awareness to practical skill-building.

Modular and flexible. Organisations and educators can select the modules most relevant to their context rather than committing to a fixed sequence.

Interactive, not lecture-based. Group discussions, live demonstrations, and ethical dilemmas keep participants engaged and force active reasoning rather than passive consumption.

Grounded in real scenarios. Abstract warnings about AI risks don't stick. We designed each module around concrete situations — corporate fraud attempts using voice clones, students encountering AI-generated misinformation, employees unsure what's safe to paste into ChatGPT.

Designed for sustainability. The classroom toolkit includes everything an educator needs to deliver the lessons independently. The workplace toolkit is structured for internal L&D teams or Palo Alto Networks facilitators to run without external support.

What This Demonstrates

This project shows how awareness content and skills-based training can work in tandem. A docuseries reaches broad audiences and sparks interest; companion toolkits convert that interest into lasting behaviour change. By developing both the educational framework and the practical materials, we helped Palo Alto Networks turn a media asset into a scalable training programme.