Privacy and Security in Artificial Intelligence: How Apple and Google could use a Mac OS app to protect its users’ privacy and data?

Consumer-grade AI tools have the risk of creating obvious risks. However, an increasing number of potential issues are arising with “proprietary” AI offerings broadly deemed safe for work such as Microsoft Copilot, says Phil Robinson, principal consultant at security consultancy Prism Infosec.

Another concern centers around AI tools that could be used to monitor staff, potentially infringing their privacy. Microsoft says that your snapshots are yours, they stay locally on your PC, and you are always in control with privacy.

Privacy experts say that the upcoming MacOS app by Openai could have a negative impact on data privacy, as it will enable the capture of sensitive data.

The risk of leaking data to non-House approved cloud service is what prompted the US House of Representatives to forbid staff to use Microsoft’s Copilot.

Using Copilot for Microsoft has been warned that it exposes the risks of sensitive data and content exposure internally and outside. And last month, Google was forced to make adjustments to its new search feature, AI Overviews, after screenshots of bizarre and misleading answers to queries went viral.

There is a threat of hackers targeting the systems themselves. If an attacker could gain access to the large language model that powers a company’s artificial intelligence tools, they would be able to steal data, plant false or misleading outputs, and use the knowledge to spread diseases, said Woollven.

It’s possible to use this to look at sensitive data if access privileges have not been locked down. We could see employees requesting to see their pay scales, M&A activity or credentials which could be used to sell or leak the information.

Google AI Overview Drop-off and How it Was Designed to Respond to Critique: Comment on BrightEdge & Google’s Response

New data from search engine optimization firm BrightEdge suggests that Google has significantly reduced how often it is showing people AI Overviews since the feature launched, and had in fact already substantially curbed the feature prior to the outpouring of criticism. The company has been tracking the appearance of Google’s AI answers on results for a list of tens of thousands of sample searches since the feature was first offered as a beta test last year.

Jim Yu said the drop-off suggested that Google was cautious in its approach to this launch. “There’s obviously some risks they’re trying to tightly manage,” he says. According to Yu, he is generally optimistic about how the company is approaching the topic, and thinks the problems are little more than a lip service.