Privacy in the AI Era Is Possible—But One Risk Worries Proton’s CEO Most AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Assistant, and smart note-taking apps are becoming as common as email. They promise convenience, but they also require trust—trust that your conversations, documents, and habits aren’t being collected, analyzed, or sold. ...
Privacy in the AI Era: What Proton’s CEO Says Really Matters for You Every time you type a question into ChatGPT, upload a document to an AI summarizer, or let an app rewrite your email, your data travels somewhere. The question is: where, and who else gets to see it? As more people adopt AI tools for work and daily life, the trade-off between convenience and privacy is becoming hard to ignore. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Andy Yen, CEO of Proton (the company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN), shared what keeps him up at night when it comes to AI and privacy—and offered some practical guidance for users who want both. ...
How to Protect Your Privacy When Using AI Tools: Advice from Proton’s CEO AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Copilot are now part of daily life for millions of people. They help us draft emails, summarize documents, brainstorm ideas, and even code. But every time you paste a block of text or ask a question, you are handing over data that can be stored, analyzed, and possibly used to train future models. ...
Privacy in the AI Era: What Keeps Proton’s CEO Awake—and How You Can Protect Yourself In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO Andy Yen offered a refreshingly frank take on privacy in the age of AI. On one hand, he believes that meaningful privacy is still achievable—even as AI tools become embedded in our daily workflows. On the other, he pointed to a specific threat that keeps him up at night: the way AI providers are quietly shifting from being tools to being data brokers. ...
Privacy in the Age of AI: Proton’s CEO Explains the Real Risk The rapid adoption of AI tools over the past year has reshaped how people work, search, and create. But for many users, the excitement is tempered by a growing unease about what happens to the data they feed into these systems. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO offered a blunt assessment of where we stand—and what genuinely worries him. ...
What Proton’s CEO Fears Most About AI Privacy — and How to Protect Yourself Six years after the launch of ChatGPT reshaped how people interact with technology, Proton CEO Andy Yen says privacy in the AI era is not only possible but necessary. But there is one thing that keeps him up at night. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Yen pointed to a specific risk that many users overlook while they tap into convenient AI tools. ...
Proton CEO: The Biggest Privacy Risk in AI and How to Protect Yourself Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, has said that privacy in the AI era is achievable—but he also pointed to one concern that keeps him up at night. In a recent interview cited by Spiceworks, Yen warned that the way most AI services centralize and use personal data poses a greater threat than many users realize. For people who rely on tools like ChatGPT, Grammarly, or image generators, the trade-off often comes down to convenience over control. ...
The One AI Privacy Risk That Worries Proton’s CEO — and How to Avoid It The moment you type a question into ChatGPT, Copilot, or any cloud-based AI assistant, your words, ideas, and sometimes sensitive data leave your device and travel to a company’s server. Most users assume that data vanishes after the conversation ends. That assumption is the main thing keeping Proton’s CEO up at night. ...
AI Privacy Is Possible, but Here’s What Still Worries Proton’s CEO Using AI tools does not have to mean giving up your privacy—that is the message from Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, the company behind privacy-focused email, VPN, and cloud storage. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Yen acknowledged that private AI is achievable, but he also pointed to a specific risk that keeps him up at night. ...
The One AI Privacy Risk That Worries Proton’s CEO—And How to Protect Yourself Intro Using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot has become routine for many of us. They help with writing, research, coding, and everyday tasks. But these conveniences come with a trade-off: the data you feed into them is often stored, analyzed, and sometimes used to train future models. In a recent interview with Spiceworks, Proton’s CEO Andy Yen shared what keeps him up at night when it comes to AI privacy—and it’s a risk many users overlook. Here’s what he said, and practical steps you can take today. ...