Privacy and Safety Checklist

Use this before and after AI-assisted work.

Before using AI

Do not paste:

• passwords, keys, or secrets;
• private personal information;
• customer, student, patient, employee, or client details;
• confidential business plans;
• unpublished legal, medical, financial, or HR material;
• private messages without permission;
• proprietary documents unless your organisation allows it.

Ask:

• Is this tool approved for this type of information?
• Can I remove or replace sensitive details?
• Can I use a safe sample instead?
• Is AI needed for this task?

During the task

Watch for:

• invented facts;
• false confidence;
• unfair assumptions;
• missing evidence;
• tone that could harm the relationship;
• advice that should come from a qualified person;
• output that asks for more private data than necessary.

Stop conditions

Stop and use human review when:

• the decision affects someone's rights, money, health, education, job, or safety;
• the output will be published publicly;
• the task involves confidential information;
• the tool gives legal, medical, financial, or compliance advice;
• the output seems confident but you cannot verify it.

After the task

Record:

• what the tool helped with;
• what you changed;
• what you verified;
• what you rejected;
• who must review it before use.