{"id":161397,"date":"2025-05-18T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=161397"},"modified":"2025-05-18T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:23:22","slug":"using-ai-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=161397","title":{"rendered":"Using AI At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f8cac59b-b467-4c83-86fe-6fae065559b5\">The Financial Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that, unless you work for an organisation that encourages the transparent use of AI, you may be strongly motivated to use it on the sly. And the trouble with this \u201cshadow adoption\u201d, as the researchers call undisclosed AI use at work, is that it exposes the organisation to serious risks, such as security breaches.<\/p>\n<p>A number of companies have at times curbed access to AI tools amid fears that staff could inadvertently leak sensitive data by feeding information into the platforms that then finds its way to outside users.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the problem of staff placing too much faith in generative AI tools that produce biased results or invent \u201challucinations\u201d. 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