Don’t tell AI your secrets, it may turn on you

🧠Don’t tell AI your secrets, it may turn on you

Your AI therapy session might not be as private as you think.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just delivered a sobering reminder: ChatGPT is not your therapist, doctor, or lawyer — and your conversations with it aren’t protected like they are with those professionals. In fact, those private late-night chats you have with an AI assistant could someday be handed over in a lawsuit.

Yes, even the man behind the world’s most powerful generative AI thinks that’s “very screwed up.”

AI Knows More Than You Think — And Might Share It

Millions are turning to AI for relationship advice, medical reassurance, and career coaching. But Altman warns that unlike human professionals, there’s no legal privilege protecting your secrets with AI. Your chat logs may be accessible in court, subject to subpoenas, or worse — regurgitated to another user by accident.

This isn’t science fiction. As Carnegie Mellon researcher William Agnew bluntly puts it: “Almost everything you tell these chatbots is not private.”

The Implications for SMBs, Healthcare, Law Firms, and Schools

If your staff or clients are using AI to manage sensitive workflows, this isn’t just about feelings — it’s a data governance issue:

• A healthcare worker using AI to draft patient summaries? Risk.

• A paralegal asking for legal wording examples on a case? Risk.

• A student querying ChatGPT about bullying or mental health? Risk.

• An SMB executive feeding in financial documents for help writing a pitch? Risk.

Unless you’re using enterprise AI tools with guaranteed privacy boundaries and internal policies, you’re exposing your organization to massive legal and reputational risks.

What to Do About It

• Train your team: Ensure they know what not to input into public AI models.

• Use private AI environments with strict access and encryption controls.

• Implement data loss prevention (DLP) systems across your network.

• Review your vendors’ AI privacy policies — don’t assume protection exists.

• Treat AI like email: Anything typed in could one day be discoverable.

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