What generative artificial intelligence can do today, where the risks lie, and what simple guidelines you can follow to protect your business.
Artificial intelligence is finding its way into more and more business processes—in accounting, customer communication, order processing, and marketing. What has been routine in large corporations for months is now increasingly making its way into small and medium-sized businesses and the skilled trades. This raises a question for every business: What do I need to watch out for to ensure the technology benefits me rather than harms me?
The occasion is an internationally noted incident from April 24, 2026: At a U.S. software company, an AI agent deleted an entire production database—including all backups—in under ten seconds. What happened there from a technical standpoint boils down to the same question every SME faces when using AI: How much should the system be allowed to do on its own? Where is human oversight required?
The presentation is aimed at managing directors, owners, and IT managers of medium-sized companies and skilled trades businesses. Plain language without jargon, practical, vendor-neutral, and immediately actionable.
• What generative AI can do today—and where its limits lie
• In which business areas AI is already being used, often without management’s knowledge
• GDPR-compliant AI use: What must remain on-premises, and what can go to the cloud?
• The international incident of April 24 as a case study — what happened technically and why multiple layers of security failed simultaneously
• Three simple rules that every business can use to protect itself from avoidable damage
• What needs to be organized before AI is deployed
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6:00 PM
Conference room of the Winnweiler Municipal Administration
Jakobstraße 29, 67722 Winnweiler
Duration: approx. 90 minutes Presentation followed by discussion
Free admission
Please register in advance by Thursday, September 3, by emailing wagnerd@winnweiler-vg.de or calling 06302 60223.
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Kai Biebel is the managing director of NMB-IT (Seclution GmbH & Co. KG) in Pirmasens. Together with his team, he supports medium-sized companies in the secure implementation of AI, GDPR-compliant IT operations, and the digitization of business processes.