AI Tool Safety Basics: Privacy, Accuracy, and Overtrust

AI Tools Need Basic Safety Habits

AI tools can make work faster, but they also create risk when users paste private data, trust outputs too quickly, or connect tools to apps without review.

Protect Private Data

Do not paste passwords, private customer information, medical records, financial records, confidential business plans, source code, or private documents into tools you do not control or understand.

Verify Important Outputs

AI can make mistakes, invent sources, misread context, or sound confident when wrong. Verify facts, numbers, dates, citations, names, and any customer-facing or business-critical output.

Avoid Overtrust

Use AI as a helper, not the final authority. The more important the result, the more human review matters.