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AI is doing more in your daily life

Your protection should keep you in control.

What AI can access, and why it matters

What AI can do?

AI features now go beyond answering questions: they can organize emails, summarize documents, edit photos, and take actions on your behalf.

Where does AI run?

Some AI features run on your device, while others use cloud services. Either way, they may connect to personal information and influence what happens next.

Why does protection need to evolve?

When AI acts on your behalf, protection needs to do more than scan files or guard a device. It needs to set clear boundaries to ensure AI only accesses what it truly needs, and that you always decide what it is allowed to do.

What makes AI-related risks different?

More convincing content at scale

AI can make it easier to create convincing emails, realistic images, believable voices, and persuasive messages at scale, making misleading content harder to spot.

Ordinary content can influence AI

Some AI assistants can be influenced by the content they process. An email, image, or message may affect what the AI recommends or does next, even before you interact with it.

What this means for you

Some risks may appear as ordinary content, trusted communications, or everyday interactions. Understanding them is an important step toward using AI more safely.

As AI changes how people work and communicate, it is also changing how threats are created, delivered, and scaled.

AI risks can begin with everyday activities

AI can make routine tasks easier. But when AI assistants and apps have access to personal information, seemingly harmless interactions can create new risks.

Here are three examples of how AI-related risks can appear in everyday life.

You ask an AI assistant to summarize your inbox and highlight important messages.

One day, a seemingly ordinary email arrives. Hidden within it is content designed to influence the AI assistant, not you.

If the assistant treats that content as a trusted instruction, it could be prompted to open a link, retrieve information, draft a reply, or interact with connected services.

The risk can begin before you click anything. If the AI assistant reads the message first, the content may influence what it recommends or does next.

What could be exposed?

Personal or work emails

Password reset or account details

Documents and attachments

Information contained in connected services

Contact information

The risk may not come from a traditional virus. It can come from influencing what the AI understands and how it responds.

You use an AI photo-editing or image-generation app to improve pictures, create avatars or generate creative content.

To provide more personalized results, the app may request access to photos, image libraries, or additional information about you. Some photos may reveal more than memories. They can contain locations, family members, work environments, daily routines, or other personal details.

Depending on how that information is handled, it could be retained, shared, used to improve AI systems, or exposed through a security incident.

What could be exposed?

Personal photos and videos

Lifestyle and daily routines

Family members and friends

Metadata embedded in images

Location information

The more personal the content, the more important it becomes to understand how it is collected, stored, and protected.

You use a smart assistant to manage family schedules, book dinner reservations, or plan a weekend trip.

To handle everything seamlessly, the assistant connects with other apps, calendars, and services on your behalf. But as it coordinates across these tools, it may access or share more context than a simple booking requires, such as home addresses, personal contacts, family routines, or upcoming travel details.

The risk doesn’t always come from a mistake. It comes from an assistant working with broad permissions across multiple services without clear stopping points along the way.

What could be exposed?

Family schedules and daily routines

Information across connected accounts

Contacts and personal relationships

Permissions granted to third-party services

Home and travel locations

When AI connects different parts of your digital life, knowing where its boundaries begin and end keeps your personal world private.

When emails reach AI

You ask an AI assistant to summarize your inbox and highlight important messages.

One day, a seemingly ordinary email arrives. Hidden within it is content designed to influence the AI assistant, not you.

If the assistant treats that content as a trusted instruction, it could be prompted to open a link, retrieve information, draft a reply, or interact with connected services.

The risk can begin before you click anything. If the AI assistant reads the message first, the content may influence what it recommends or does next.

What could be exposed?

Personal or work emails

Documents and attachments

Contact information

Password reset or account details

Information contained in connected services

The risk may not come from a traditional virus. It can come from influencing what the AI understands and how it responds.

Photos tell more

You use an AI photo-editing or image-generation app to improve pictures, create avatars or make something new.

To provide more personalized results, the app may request access to photos, image libraries, or additional information about you. Some photos may reveal more than memories. They can contain locations, family members, work environments, daily routines, or other personal details.

Depending on how that information is handled, it could be retained, shared, used to improve AI systems, or exposed through a security incident.

What could be exposed?

Personal photos and videos

Family members and friends

Location information

Lifestyle and daily routines

Metadata embedded in images

The more personal the content, the more important it becomes to understand how it is collected, stored, and protected.

More than you meant

You use a smart assistant to manage family schedules, book dinner reservations, or plan a weekend trip.

To handle everything seamlessly, the assistant connects with other apps, calendars, and services on your behalf. But as it coordinates across these tools, it may access or share more context than a simple booking requires, such as home addresses, personal contacts, family routines, or upcoming travel details.

The risk doesn't always come from a mistake. It comes from an assistant working with broad permissions across multiple services without clear stopping points along the way.

What could be exposed?

Family schedules and daily routines

Contacts and personal relationships

Home and travel locations

Information across connected accounts

Permissions granted to third-party services

When AI connects different parts of your digital life, knowing where its boundaries begin and end keeps your personal world private.

Protection needs to evolve as
AI becomes more capable

Traditional protection still helps keep devices and information secure. But as AI becomes part of everyday apps and services, it can process content, connect personal information, and act on your behalf, creating new risks from ordinary content. Digital protection needs to evolve with these experiences.

A new generation of digital protection should help with:

Setting clear boundaries for what AI can see

Ensure AI only accesses the information needed for the task.

Watching quietly in the background

Identify unusual behavior and potentially risky actions.

Leaving the final say with you

Confirm key decisions before important actions are taken.

AI should make life easier while helping people stay in control of their information.

The promise of AI depends on trust

“The challenge isn’t controlling intelligence. It’s engineering the boundaries that govern how intelligence can act.”

Eva Chen | CEO, Trend Micro

AI becomes more useful when people can trust it with their information and everyday decisions.

That trust grows when people understand what AI can access, how their information is handled, what actions AI may take on their behalf, and where appropriate boundaries are in place.

Protection should help make AI experiences safer and easier to understand, so people can use AI with confidence while staying in control of what matters.

Our commitment

For nearly 40 years, Trend Micro has helped people stay safe as technology evolves.
Today, TrendLife brings that same commitment to AI-powered experiences, helping people enjoy the benefits of AI while protecting what matters most.

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