AI Fluency & Building · Internship Role
AI SYSTEMS ANALYST
Map how work really flows, then spot where AI adds risk: failure points, second-order effects, and who gets hurt when it goes wrong.
SKILLS YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
Process mappingSystems thinkingRisk assessmentFailure-mode analysisNIST AI RMF
PROOF-OF-WORK TASKS8 TASKS
Start at Beginner and work up. Every task produces something real you can show: a report, a tool, a guide or a demo. Publish it on LinkedIn or GitHub as your proof of work.
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Beginner
LEVEL 01
- 01Draw a process map of a familiar workflow (college admission, a food delivery order, or bank KYC) showing every person, system and hand-off.
- 02Pick 3 incidents from the AI Incident Database. For each one, write what failed, who was affected, and the one control that could have prevented it.
- 03Create a 'second-order effects' chart for one AI use (for example, AI grading homework): the first effect, then two more layers of knock-on effects.
I
Intermediate
LEVEL 02
- 01Run a failure-mode analysis (FMEA) on an AI customer-support chatbot. List 15 failure modes, rate severity × likelihood, and propose controls for the top 5.
- 02Map an AI-assisted security workflow (alert triage or phishing review) and mark where a human must stay in the loop, and why.
- 03Use the 'Map' function of the NIST AI RMF to write a 2-page risk profile of a real public AI product.
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Advanced
LEVEL 03
- 01Produce a full AI risk assessment for a mock SecureMojo AI assistant rollout: process map, risk register, controls, residual risk, and a monitoring plan.
- 02Build a reusable AI use-case intake template that a company can use to approve or reject new AI ideas, then test it on 5 example proposals.
HAND-PICKED FREE RESOURCES6 RESOURCES
FREE COURSE
BPMN Tutorial (Camunda)
Learn the standard notation for drawing business processes.
VISIT RESOURCE
FREE TOOL
MIT AI Risk Repository
A searchable database of AI risks, sorted by cause and domain.
VISIT RESOURCE
FREE TOOL
AI Incident Database
Thousands of real AI failures to study, cite and learn from.
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FREE TOOL
draw.io
Free diagramming tool for process maps and system diagrams.
VISIT RESOURCE
ARTICLE GUIDE
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
The most widely used framework for mapping, measuring and managing AI risk.
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ARTICLE GUIDE
Leverage Points (Donella Meadows)
The classic essay on where to intervene in a system.
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