AI in sensitive occupations advisor
Some professions carry confidentiality and duty-of-care obligations that ordinary AI usage can quietly violate — pasting a patient’s history, a privileged document, or a confidential source’s details into a consumer chatbot can breach the law and your professional code in one keystroke. This advisor gives profession-specific cautions and safer-practice suggestions so you can use AI without crossing those lines.
How it works
You select your occupation — doctor, lawyer, journalist, therapist, accountant, or educator — and the tool surfaces the core duty that governs your AI use (confidentiality, privilege, source protection, fiduciary duty, safeguarding). It then lists the specific cautions for that profession and concrete safer-practice alternatives. When you describe your use case, it scans for signals that confidential or identifiable information is involved and flags it as high risk. You also pick your jurisdiction, since the precise regime (HIPAA, GDPR, FERPA, bar rules) varies.
Tips and notes
- De-identify or use an approved tool. The recurring rule across every profession: don’t put identifiable confidential data into unvetted AI.
- Verify everything AI asserts. Fabricated citations and facts are a known, sanctionable failure mode in law and medicine.
- Retention terms matter. For source protection and health data, prefer tools with no-training and clear retention guarantees.
- Your regulator is the authority. This is general guidance — your professional body and employer policy are the final word.