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    AI That Reads Your Inbox for You

    Inbox assistants triage your day — and can be nudged by poisoned emails. Treat summaries as sketches; open money and access issues yourself.

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    Shadow AI at Work and at Home

    Shadow AI is shadow IT in a new coat: free chatbots, mystery extensions, and helpful sites nobody approved — still seeing what you paste.

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    When Automation Keeps Going

    Automation is obedient, not wise. Watch the first batch — and know how you would stop a run.

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    If Someone Else Is Steering Your AI

    An AI takeover rarely looks like a film. More often it is a shared login, a stolen password, or a tablet still signed in — and then your old prompts are someone else’s reading list.

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James Lugton — Cybersecurity professional and technology writer based in Yorkshire. Security e-Drift is his knowledge platform — the quiet compromise.

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