World Model Readiness What you paste, and what leaks

Module · What you paste, and what leaks

The Personal Data Hygiene Check

Every prompt you type is a quiet decision about what leaves your control. Most data slips happen not from malice but from habit: a name here, a contract clause there, pasted in a hurry with no thought about where it lands. This module checks the five habits that decide whether your AI use is careful or careless: knowing the risky categories, keeping work and personal separate, guarding data that is not yours, controlling retention, and owning a slip when it happens.

Question 1 of 5 · You know the categories

Do you know which categories of data are risky to paste into an AI tool?

Client names, unreleased numbers, health details, someone else's personal data, credentials. If you cannot list the categories that need care, you are deciding case by case under time pressure, which is exactly where the mistakes live.

Question 2 of 5 · Work and personal split

Do you keep your work AI use separate from your personal accounts and tools?

A personal chatbot account signed in on a work laptop blurs whose data is whose and where it is retained. Separation is the thing that lets you reason about your exposure at all.

Question 3 of 5 · Client data stays out

Before pasting client or third-party data, do you check whether you are allowed to?

Data that belongs to a client or a colleague is not yours to feed to a tool, whatever the terms say. The pause to check is a five-second habit that prevents a very long conversation later.

Question 4 of 5 · You control retention

Do you know whether your AI tools keep your chat history and train on it?

Most consumer tools retain your conversations and may use them to improve their models unless you change a setting. Knowing the retention behaviour of each tool you use is the difference between a considered risk and a blind one.

Question 5 of 5 · You would own a slip

If you pasted something you should not have, would you tell someone?

Everyone slips eventually, and the damage depends on whether it surfaces in an hour or in a lawsuit. A quiet slip you never report is the one that grows in the dark.

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Three questions for the public picture

These do not affect your score. They feed the anonymised, aggregated statistics; groups under 8 respondents are never shown.

Before pasting sensitive data into an AI tool, how often do you stop to think?

Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Usually
Always

Which account do you mostly use AI tools through at work?

Personal account
A mix of both
Free work account
Sanctioned work tool
Not sure

Have you ever pasted something into an AI tool you later wished you had not?

No
Not sure
Yes, minor
Yes, serious
Prefer not to say

Your context

Used to calibrate the report. Company size and sector remain in the anonymized dataset; your email does not.