Although there are a few ways to mitigate the risk, the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.
Financial software is one of those things that companies just don’t update for decades. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if somebody had started handing off a bunch of their payroll or accounting reporting to an AI instead of just updating to a newer software with more features.
I don’t use ms stuff, but how sure are users that the ai that’s pervasive throughout the system isn’t peeking at the data even if you didn’t invoke it explicitly?
Maybe it doesn’t and I’m just being overly paranoid, otoh, this is ms, so…
Anyone using AI for a financial report deserves exactly what they asked for.
Not knowing anything outside of tax filing software how much more automated can financial work get
Financial software is one of those things that companies just don’t update for decades. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if somebody had started handing off a bunch of their payroll or accounting reporting to an AI instead of just updating to a newer software with more features.
“Make me a presentation showing sales for this quarter. Make no mistakes”
I don’t use ms stuff, but how sure are users that the ai that’s pervasive throughout the system isn’t peeking at the data even if you didn’t invoke it explicitly?
Maybe it doesn’t and I’m just being overly paranoid, otoh, this is ms, so…