AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT

Prof Mike Wooldridge will address looming questions around AI in this year's Royal Institution Christmas lectures

Confiding in ChatGPT about work gripes or political preferences could come back to bite users, according to an artificial intelligence expert.

Mike Wooldridge, a professor of AI at Oxford University, says sharing private information or having heart-to-hearts with a chatbot would be extremely unwise" as anything revealed helps train future versions.