Should AI have the same data access restrictions as employees?

Enterprise AI tools copy company documents into vector databases to answer user questions. Original document permissions do not automatically follow data into these secondary systems. Security and system managers must now enforce access rules across the entire retrieval pipeline to prevent employees from querying restricted files.

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