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Shadow AI

Safety and trust

Staff using AI tools at work that their employer hasn't approved, often pasting in company data.

More words in Safety and trust

• SycophancyAn AI's habit of telling you what you want to hear instead of what's true.
• Synthetic mediaAny image, video, voice or text made by AI. Deepfakes are the harmful kind.
• TransparencyBeing open about when AI is being used, how it works and what data it was trained on.
• Voice cloningCopying someone's voice from a short recording. Useful for accessibility, and widely used in phone scams.
• WatermarkingHidden signals placed in AI-made content so it can be identified as AI-made later.