What Should You Never Share With AI?

Avoid sharing passwords, authentication codes, private personal data, confidential records, and restricted work information with AI tools.

Never share passwords, authentication codes, private keys, full payment details, government identifiers, private health or legal records, intimate information about others, or confidential work data unless an authorized, specifically approved system and policy permits it.

Treat an AI tool like an external service, not a private notebook. Check the tool, account, settings, organization policy, and purpose before sharing information.

Redaction helps only when the remaining details cannot identify a person or reveal the sensitive fact indirectly.

Ask for help with a form safely

Weak: Paste a completed form with address, birth date, and account number.

Improved: Describe the type of field causing confusion and use invented sample values.

You can understand the task without exposing the real record.

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