The risks of AI — hallucinations, data privacy, and what should never go into a chatbot
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August 7, 2026
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For nine weeks this column has argued that AI belongs in the Jamaican finance office: forecasting cash flow, cleaning a year of receipts, turning spreadsheets into slides, reading 200-page agreements before anybody signs them. Nearly every one of those columns closed with the same two warnings — verify everything, and keep confidential material on a business account.
This week those warnings get the full column, because the tools are spreading through Jamaican businesses faster than the habits that make them safe.
The two risk families from this week’s column: what AI can do to information, and what canhappen to the information you give it. (Branded graphic by PGH Consulting, LLC)
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