AI Safety

Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT – And Boards Are Already Behind. Here’s What You Need to Know to Protect Your Data You type a quick prompt into ChatGPT, maybe asking it to summarize a quarterly report you’ve been working on. Or you drop a spreadsheet into Copilot to help spot trends. It feels harmless – just saving time. But what you may not realize is that you’ve just shared potentially sensitive company information with an external service that has no obligation to keep it confidential. ...

5 things you should never tell your AI chatbot (to protect your money) AI chatbots are convenient. They can draft emails, summarize articles, help with travel plans, and even offer financial advice. But the ease of conversation can lead to oversharing—and that can be costly. A recent column in The Washington Post drew attention to five categories of personal information that should never be handed over to a chatbot, no matter how helpful it seems. Below is a summary of the advice, along with context on why it matters and what you can do instead. ...

OpenAI’s New Privacy Filter: How to Protect PII in Your Enterprise AI Usage If your organization uses OpenAI’s API or ChatGPT Enterprise, you may have missed a quiet but important update. Earlier this year, OpenAI released a privacy filter designed to automatically detect and remove personally identifiable information (PII) from data sent to their models. There was no splashy announcement—just a brief mention in the API documentation and some scattered reports from enterprise customers. ...

OpenAI’s New Privacy Filter Automatically Masks Your Personal Data in Documents If you’ve ever pasted a document full of customer names, email addresses, or phone numbers into ChatGPT, you’ve probably wondered: Is this information safe? A new open-source tool from OpenAI aims to reduce that worry. ...

OpenAI Just Released a Privacy Filter – Here’s How It Works and How to Use It On April 22, 2026, OpenAI released an open-source tool called the OpenAI Privacy Filter. It automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in documents—things like names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other sensitive data. The tool is designed to help people clean up documents before sharing them or using them with AI services. It’s available on GitHub, can run locally on your own machine, and doesn’t require sending your data to OpenAI’s servers. ...

Keep Your Money Safe: Five Things Never to Tell Your AI Chatbot If you use ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or any other AI chatbot for daily tasks, you’re not alone. These tools are incredibly convenient for drafting emails, summarizing documents, or brainstorming ideas. But that convenience comes with a privacy catch: anything you type into a chatbot can be stored, analyzed, and in some cases, exposed to third parties. As more people turn to AI for help with budgeting, shopping, or even tax prep, the risk of oversharing sensitive financial information has grown sharply. ...