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Lock the AI account like you lock your email
Your AI account needs more than a password, so your conversations and connections stay yours.
Why it matters: An AI account can hold years of personal conversations and, increasingly, connections to your email, calendar and files. Taking it over can be as useful to a criminal as taking over your inbox.
Left off your path if you picked “We don't, as far as I know” for “How does your household use AI?”.
Do it
- Sign in with your existing Apple, Google or Microsoft account only if that account already has a passkey or MFA; otherwise set a unique password.
- Turn on MFA or a passkey in the assistant's security settings.
- Review active sessions and sign out of anything unfamiliar.
- Check the email address on the account is one you still use.
Say this: If my AI assistant asks me to sign in again out of nowhere, I close the page and open the app myself.
Check it worked: Each AI account has a unique password and a passkey or MFA, and you've signed out of devices you don't recognize.
Simply put
Your AI account is becoming a second inbox: it holds years of conversations and, more and more, links to your email and files. Locking it like your email means a stolen password doesn't open all of that.
In detail
As assistants gain connectors, the AI account becomes a hub for other accounts, much like email is today. Its blast radius grows with every connection you add.
If this is new to you: Signed in with Google, Apple or Microsoft? Then the main job is checking that account already has a passkey or MFA. It takes a few minutes.
Points toward the Long View: a hub for your other accounts that's protected like one.