Those AI tools are being trained on our trade secrets. We'll lose all of our customers if they find out our teams use AI. Our employees will no longer be able to think critically because of the brain rot caused by overreliance on AI. These are not irrational fears. As AI continues to dominate the headlines, questions about data privacy and security, intellectual property, and work quality are legitimate and important.
There's lots of models that help make that very financially attainable, especially for startups and especially for companies that are gathering intimate information, because that's what data brokers want,
OpenAI has added a beta of Developer mode to ChatGPT, enabling full read and write support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, though the documentation describes the feature as dangerous. Developer community lead Edwin Arbus said that "in developer mode, developers can create connectors and use them in chat for write actions (not just search/fetch). Update Jira tickets, trigger Zapier workflows or combine connectors for complex automations." Limitations in the initial beta are that developer mode does not work in Team workspaces or in project chats.
Defence secretary John Healey has warned accountability starts now after a data leak put up to 100,000 lives of Afghan lives at risk and prompted thousands of them to come to Britain under a 7bn resettlement scheme.
If security protocols do not mature alongside those changes, new vulnerabilities will surface, especially as cybercriminals develop more advanced AI-powered tactics.