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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAs Mashable’s Tech Editor, I’ve found some great ways to use AI tools in my role. My favorite\u00a0AI tools for professionals\u00a0(Otter.ai, Grammarly, and ChatGPT) have proven hugely useful at tasks like transcribing interviews, taking meeting minutes, and quickly summarizing long PDFs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also know that I’m barely scratching the surface of what AI can do. There’s a reason\u00a0college students are using ChatGPT\u00a0for everything these days. However, even the most important tools can be dangerous if used incorrectly. A hammer is an indispensable tool, but in the wrong hands, it’s a murder weapon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what are the security risks of using AI at work? Should you think twice before uploading that PDF to ChatGPT?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In short, yes, there are known security risks that come with AI tools, and you could be putting your company and your job at risk if you don’t understand them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Information compliance risks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you have to sit through boring trainings each year on HIPAA compliance, or the requirements you face under the European Union’s GDPR law? Then, in theory, you should already know that violating these laws carries stiff financial penalties for your company. Mishandling client or patient data could also cost you your job. Furthermore, you may have signed a non-disclosure agreement when you started your job. If you share any protected data with a third-party AI tool like Claude or ChatGPT, you could potentially be violating your NDA.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, when a judge\u00a0ordered ChatGPT to preserve all customer chats, even deleted chats, the company warned of unintended consequences. The move may even force OpenAI to violate its own privacy policy by storing information that ought to be deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic offer enterprise services to many companies, creating custom AI tools that utilize their Application Programming Interface (API). These custom enterprise tools may have built-in privacy and cybersecurity protections in place, but if you’re using a private<\/em> ChatGPT account, you should be very cautious about sharing company or customer information. To protect yourself (and your clients), follow these tips when using AI at work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because LLMs like ChatGPT are essentially word-prediction engines, they lack the ability to fact-check their own output. That’s why AI hallucinations \u2014 invented facts, citations, links, or other material \u2014\u00a0are such a persistent problem. You may have heard of the\u00a0Chicago Sun-Times\u00a0<\/em>summer reading list, which\u00a0included completely imaginary books. Or the dozens of lawyers who have\u00a0submitted legal briefs written by ChatGPT, only for the chatbot to reference nonexistent cases and laws. Even when chatbots like Google Gemini or ChatGPT cite their sources, they may completely invent the facts attributed to that source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you using\u00a0artificial intelligence\u00a0at work yet? If you’re not, you’re at serious risk of falling behind your colleagues, as AI…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewstime.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Hallucination risks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n