The AI Privacy

Somewhere this week, someone will open an AI chatbot to draft a simple letter, and without thinking twice, hand over their name, their address, and a private problem they’re in the middle of. I wrote The AI Privacy because that moment happens constantly, and almost no one notices it until something goes wrong. I’m Adrian Blackwood, and this book started with a simple question: why do so many careful people — the ones who shred bank statements and never reuse a password — treat a chatbot conversation like it disappears the moment they close the tab? It doesn’t. What you type gets stored, sometimes reviewed, sometimes used to train the next version of the system, and occasionally caught in a breach you’ll never see coming.

I’m not telling you to quit using AI. I’m walking you through the real, ordinary moments where oversharing happens — budgeting, medical questions, work tasks, your kids’ homework, a late-night conversation that feels more private than it is — and showing you exactly what to change, so you lose nothing in the AI’s answer and give away nothing you didn’t mean to. If you’ve ever pasted a document into a chatbot without checking what else was on the page, or told it something you’d never say out loud to a stranger, this book is for you. Read it once, and the habit it teaches will outlast every tool you use it on.