Feature Focus: Introducing the AI Scenario Generator

In this blog, we’ll cover what this feature is and how you can use it.

For this release, we’ve made creation as easy as possible. Just click Create with AI, add a title, and select options for organisational sector, attack vector, threat actor, and scenario size.

This will generate a full scenario, from the briefing to the epilogue. You can even make a cuppa while it works!🪄✨

Once created, these scenarios can be published or edited and published in your organisation's catalogue.

But how exactly does it work?

Organisation admins can turn the AI Scenario Generator on and off in the platform settings area, so you’ll need this to be turned on if you want to try it out! 

Our AI Scenario Generator is currently only available to our Cyber Crisis Simulator customers. It’s based on technology provided by OpenAI, with generations based on publicly available data related to crisis management as well as our own Immersive Labs Crisis Sim catalogue.

Organisation admins can choose to use the feature in a layered approach:

• No AI access at all: This means that your organisation has chosen not to enable the AI Scenario Generator.
• Without scenario sharing enabled: You can generate AI scenarios based only on the inputs shown in the generation box.
• With scenario sharing enabled: The AI will access specific parts of your previously published scenarios when generating new ones, ensuring the new scenario is highly relevant to your context.

These settings can be updated on the organisation's settings page. If you’re keen to use the AI Scenario Generator but it’s not enabled in your organisation, you’ll need to discuss this with your internal Organization Administrator.

If you’re an Organization Administrator and want to know more about the feature, contact your CSM.

Tell me more about scenario sharing!

If your organisation chooses to also enable scenario sharing, Immersive Labs will include specific information from any previous custom scenarios that you’ve published in the temporary “context window” for requests to our third-party AI vendor. 

A "context window" is an extension of the query sent to an AI model. It exists only during the processing of the query and isn’t saved by any third parties. The third-party AI vendor won’t use any of the information you share to train its models. Shared data will only ever be included in this temporary "context window" of generation and won’t be stored by the third-party AI vendor. 

The shared information includes scenario titles, descriptions, inject titles, and response options. It excludes feedback to response options, exercise information, reporting, account or organisation information fields, or metadata.

Scenario sharing is designed to make the generated scenario more relevant to your particular context. You can still create scenarios using AI without scenario sharing, but your scenario will likely be more generic and less relevant to your particular organisational context. However, you can still edit the final version to make it more relevant to you – just like with our catalogue scenarios.

Let’s not forget the human in the loop

As with all things AI, we recommend that you review the AI output before publishing your scenario, to ensure it meets your needs. 

The AI Scenario Generator currently only generates text content, so you’ll probably want to add additional rich media, such as images or videos, to your scenario. To get the most out of your crisis simulation, we also recommend enabling, adding, changing, and checking certain elements. 

These include:

• Checking that you’re happy with the text formatting and narrative content
• Checking that you’re satisfied with the role listed
• Enabling and adding response feedback or performance indicators
• If you want to capture ranked response data, select the ranked options setting and add a rank (great, good, weak, okay) to each response option to suit your organisation's preferred situational response
• Turning on response confidence or justifications 

Get involved and share your thoughts!

We know that AI is a hot topic and we’re keen to hear and capture your feedback and suggestions on this first release of our AI Scenario Generator as part of our user research taking place this November and December.

If you want to participate in this research, you’ll be able to share your thoughts and experiences of using our AI tool and scenario creation more generally directly with our team. 

Comment below if you’d like to find out more, and we’ll contact you with further details!

If you’re an Immersive Labs customer, you can find out more about the AI Scenario Generator in our FAQ guide.