What should I decide before letting AI learn from my work conversations?
Decide which material a tool may use before you connect it to your work conversations. A speaker in the summit notes imagined AI becoming more authentic to each person's voice by learning from meetings, emails and revisions, and that possibility raises its own question.
Start with the purpose. If you want help matching your writing style, a few approved examples may be enough for a first test. Connecting an entire inbox is a different decision from handing over a sample paragraph.
Think about the people whose information appears in the material. Your access to a meeting or an email doesn't settle whether you may upload it to another service. Check the applicable workplace rules, participant expectations and permissions before recording or transferring it, and ask the appropriate person when the answer is unclear.
The controls and the exit
Review the service's current controls for access and retention, and how it handles deletion and use of submitted material. Don't assume they work the same way across products or account types.
Work out an exit plan too: how to disconnect the source, and what happens to material already copied. If you can't establish those details, keep the first test to material you can safely provide.
What to try this week
Write down the one source you'd want to connect first and the people whose words appear in it. If you can't say who gave permission, swap in a sample paragraph for the first test.