Everyone's rolling out AI copilots internally right now, and I keep hearing the same story.
Someone asks the assistant a harmless question. It answers with a slide from a board deck, or a salary spreadsheet, or a doc from an acquisition that never happened.
The AI didn't break any rules. That file was shared with "Anyone in the organization" back in 2021, and nobody noticed because nobody ever searched for it.
Copilots didn't create the permissions mess. They just made it searchable.
Before you switch one on, it's worth spending a week finding out what it'll be able to read. It will find everything you forgot about, and it won't be shy about sharing.