Email, Work & Devices
An email, a meeting recording or a shared document contains far more business information than it first appears. When everyday office software introduces hidden AI, it changes how information is stored, searched and shared across your organisation.
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Your inbox, meetings and files
- What the AI does: Hidden AI in email clients, office suites, meeting assistants, and workplace chats summarises correspondence, transcribes spoken discussions, generates action items, and organises files across connected cloud storage.
- What my research examines: I look at what information these features access beneath the surface, whether default settings leave model training switched on, and what evidence is left behind when dealing with automated outcomes.
- Cross-app exposure: Features rarely stay isolated inside a single app. I evaluate how meeting summaries propagate to external invitees, how email context feeds into cross-app search tools, and what happens when third-party extensions are introduced.
- Control and verification: I break down documented administrator controls versus user-level toggles, helping you figure out whether disabling a visible assistant actually stops background processing or if your data remains exposed.
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