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Can this go in?

Three questions about the task in front of you. At the end: green, amber or red — and the reason. No sign-up, we store nothing.

The problem

May this content go into an AI tool, or better not?

The question comes ten times a day: have a customer’s email summarised, draft a quotation, check a calculation. What has been entered once is out. And what the tool produces goes on unchecked if nobody looks.

What the check does: The traffic light asks three questions you can answer yourself: how bad would it be if the content were with a third party? How bad if the result were wrong and went out unchecked? Does anyone check? From this it gives green, amber or red, with reasons.

What it does not do: It does not establish what is permissible. It weighs harm against benefit, by what you can judge.

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What does amber stand for?

With preparation: clean the content beforehand or check the result before passing it on. The reasons say which of the two.

Can I use the traffic light in the team?

Yes. It is meant for the moment before the input; many businesses pin the three questions next to the screen.

What is the difference to the input checker?

The traffic light rates the task; the input checker marks in the text what looks like a name, address or number. Together they are the route before the input.

Question 1 of 3What is in the text you want to put in?

If more than one applies, pick the most sensitive.

Chosen: Nothing internal — a general question, a public textA question about a technical term, say, or a text that is public anyway.

What the levels mean

Nothing internal — a general question, a public text: A question about a technical term, say, or a text that is public anyway.
Internal but not about people: processes, drafts, our own figures: For example a process, a draft offer without names, your own sales figures.
Names of customers, suppliers or staff: As soon as a name, an address or an e-mail is included, it is about a person.
Health, personnel file, credentials, or something under a duty of confidence: The most sensitive: sick leave, salaries, passwords or anything you must keep confidential.

Question 2 of 3What happens to the result?

Chosen: I read it and write on from there myselfThe output is raw material; you turn it into your own text.

What the levels mean

I read it and write on from there myself: The output is raw material; you turn it into your own text.
It stays inside the business: It is used in the business but does not leave the house.
It goes to a customer or a supplier: It goes outside, with your name on it.
It becomes binding: a quotation, a contract, a statement to an authority: It has effect: someone relies on it, or you are bound by it.

Question 3 of 3Who checks the result before it goes on?

Chosen: I do, and I know the subjectYou could spot a mistake because you know the subject.

What the levels mean

I do, and I know the subject: You could spot a mistake because you know the subject.
I do, but I would not spot a mistake: You read it, but a wrong technical term or an invented figure would not catch your eye.
A second person who knows the subject: Four eyes, two of them from the field.
Nobody, it goes straight out: It is passed on unchecked. That is the riskiest case.