What not to paste into AI

Build a simple safety habit before using AI with workplace, customer, company, or personal information.

Key ideas

What to remember

Sensitive information includes customer data, employee data, credentials, private financials, legal details, health information, and confidential company context.

You can often replace sensitive details with public, fictional, anonymized, or simplified context.

Approved workplace tools may have different rules than public AI tools.

Practice

Rewrite the risky prompt

Write a prompt you might be tempted to use at work.

Remove names, private details, client information, and confidential context.

Rewrite it as a safe version using fictional or general details.

What you produce

A before-and-after prompt showing how to make a request safer before using AI.

Review before moving on

Did you remove names and identifying details?

Did you remove confidential company or customer information?

Would the prompt still be useful with safer context?

Keep nearby

Open the what-not-to-paste guide

Use this focused guide when you are unsure whether a prompt contains information that should stay private.

Open resource