Protection
Can our staff use ChatGPT?
With an enterprise account and a written policy, often yes. On a personal account with client data, no, and the policy should say so in plain words.
Answered by Nate Weigel, Protection Director
Before you pick an AI platform, ask the vendor one question in writing: is our data used to train your models, and for how long do you keep it?
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Ask around the office and you will find people using ChatGPT, Copilot or something similar to draft emails, summarise documents and write spreadsheet formulas. That is fine, and mostly useful. The question is what they are pasting in, and where it goes.
The line
A personal, free account may use what you type to train the model, and you have no agreement with the provider about your data. Client names, financials, contracts, medical or personal information and anything a customer would not want on the internet should never go into one. A business or enterprise account, where the provider agrees in writing not to train on your data and to keep it private, changes the answer.
What a policy says
Which tools are approved, on which accounts. What may not be pasted in, in plain words with examples. That output gets checked by a person before it goes to a client. Who to ask when unsure. It fits on a page, and staff will actually follow it if it is short.
Regulated businesses
Insurance agencies, financial advisors and law firms get asked about this by regulators and clients now. We wrote a policy for an SEC-registered advisor and set up the approved tools so the policy was enforceable rather than a wish. The same approach works for a ten-person office.
Where we did this
Consumer AI tools send whatever you paste out of the building. Enterprise editions keep it in your tenant. The policy has to say which is which.
An AI policy in two pages TechnologyCopilot in a small office earns its keep on meeting notes and finding documents. It is not for numbers that have to be right.
What Copilot is good forPeople also ask
How warm is too warm for our server room?
Equipment is designed for roughly 18 to 27 degrees Celsius, 64 to 81 Fahrenheit, measured at the front where it draws air in. The number that matters is not the one on a Tuesday afternoon; it is the one at 2am on a Sunday.
The full answerWhere should our server actually live?
In a space with airflow, stable power, no water above it and a door that locks. Heat is the most common environmental killer of business equipment, and the room that is fine in March is a different room in July.
The full answerWhat is a server room reorganization, and is it worth paying for?
It is making the room possible to reason about: inventory, cable management, labelling at both ends, documentation, power and airflow. It turns a two-hour outage into a twenty-minute one, and it is far cheaper scheduled than done in an emergency.
The full answer
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Client, 2024 surveyStaff using AI without rules?
Ask for the one-page policy. We will fit it to your business.
Talk to a partnerTalk to a partner, not a sales script.
Tell us what is going on. A partner will call you back the same business day, look at what you have, and tell you honestly whether we are the right fit. No pricing pressure, no pitch deck.