The mission of Get Grounded AI is to raise real-world AI security awareness for everyday AI users

I'm Jereme Peabody. I spent more than 20 years in the federal government working as a cybersecurity professional. Security is how I think. It's how I solve problems. It's my default lens on everything.

Without a doubt, I can say AI is the most disruptive technology to show up in decades. It's powerful, useful, and dangerously easy to misuse.

This site exists to explore AI's real capabilities while anchoring everything in one thing most people ignore: security.

Lacking AI Security Awareness

Millions of people are using AI with zero awareness of its risks. They trust the output, copy the answer, paste it into production, and hope for the best.

That is a recipe for failure.

Get Grounded AI exists to close that gap. I provide real examples, straightforward articles, scenario-based quizzes, and a newsletter focused entirely on AI's security implications. In a world where AI is becoming part of everyone's daily workflow, this kind of awareness isn't optional, it's survival.

The Risk

My career revolved around identifying and mitigating risk. Now I apply that same mindset to AI, not as a hype-chaser, but as someone who wants to understand where it breaks, where it misleads, and how it can be exploited.

Here's the blunt truth:

Using AI in a domain you don't understand is risky.

If you lack the subject knowledge to challenge an output, AI will give you an answer that sounds right but may fail catastrophically in real use. I've watched AI generate code that introduces security holes. I've seen it hallucinate technical facts. I've seen it give confident guidance that would collapse the second it hits a production environment.

This isn't fear-mongering, it's the reality of using a probabilistic system without understanding it. This site aims on educating people to use it more responsibly.

Ask the Right Questions

In cybersecurity, 'trust but verify' isn't a slogan, it's the rule that keeps systems alive. In AI, you validate before you act.

To verify, you need to ask the right questions. To ask the right questions, you need domain knowledge. If you don't know the field, you won't spot the red flags.

You won't see the missing steps. You won't catch the subtle errors that turn into major operational issues.

AI is a powerful advisor, but it is not an authority. Treat it like a junior analyst: useful, fast, and occasionally wrong in ways that matter.

AI Best Practices

I built Get Grounded AI because there was no consolidated place that combined practical AI usage with a hardened security mindset. Plenty of blogs teach prompts and tricks. Very few teach people how to use AI safely.

I'm still learning every day and I share what I learn here so others can avoid the common pitfalls, use AI more effectively, and build the AI security awareness that is absolutely required for users going forward.

This site is about making AI useful and safe. Both matter. One without the other is a risk you don't need to take.