AI in your browser: a one-page permissions rulebook before anyone clicks Allow for all sites
ChatGPT's Chrome extension asks before it uses a site, and one option drops the asking altogether. A one-page rulebook for your team, a ten-minute set-up, and what the ICO is now looking at.
AI in your browser: a one-page permissions rulebook before anyone clicks Allow for all sites
By Jason Sibley
Why this needs rules now
The ChatGPT browser extension works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera or Vivaldi, and runs from the ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI's documentation says ChatGPT can read or act on sites where you're already signed in, such as LinkedIn, Salesforce, Gmail or internal tools.
If someone on your team is logged in to a system, the assistant may be able to work inside it. That's useful, but a careless click on a permission prompt can have consequences.
Other browser assistants work in similar ways, so check their settings. This rulebook focuses on ChatGPT because that's the one we have documentation for.
We covered the news in ChatGPT's Chrome extension and open tabs: team rules. This guide gives you a rulebook to copy, fill in and pin up.
The four choices on the permission prompt
By default, ChatGPT asks before it interacts with each new website. OpenAI says the pro