Sensitive Data AI Safety Checklist

The Sensitive Data AI Safety Checklist helps teams understand what not to paste into AI tools.

AI can be useful, but many risks begin when people enter private, sensitive, confidential, protected, or regulated information into an AI system without realizing the exposure.

This checklist gives buyers a practical safety layer before AI use.

It teaches teams to pause before entering information and ask:

Is this public?

Is this private?

Is this approved?

Could this harm someone if exposed?

Does this involve students, employees, customers, donors, members, patients, players, legal records, financial information, or confidential documents?

The checklist provides clear categories of information that should be held, reviewed, redacted, or denied before being used with AI.

Core Promise

Know what not to paste into AI.

Includes

• Do-not-paste checklist
• Sensitive data categories
• ALLOW / HOLD / DENY input model
• Safer information examples
• Redaction examples
• Before-you-paste question checklist
• Risk level guide
• Organization quick policy
• Team reminder sheet
• Completed examples
• One-page mini checklist
• Disclaimer