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The Biggest AI Risk Isn't the Model—It's Your Data: How to Protect Sensitive Business Information When Using AI Agents in 2026 By Mzee Boto Everyone asks whether AI can be trusted. That's the wrong question. Can your business trust where its data goes once an AI agent gets hold of it? Every week, someone uploads a client contract into a chatbot "just to summarize it." Another employee asks an AI assistant to draft an email using confidential customer information. Someone else connects an AI agent to a company database because it makes work faster. Most of these actions never trigger an alarm. Most never become a headline. But every one of them increases your exposure. The conversation around AI has spent years focusing on the models themselves. Are they accurate? Are they biased? Do they hallucinate? Those are important questions. They just aren't the biggest risk. The real risk is your data. AI agents can now search files, call APIs, upda...