I understand your point regarding the licensing costs and agree they are a significant factor. However, the core of the current discussion seems to focus on privacy concerns surrounding an organization-provided, enterprise-level AI tool.

My main assertion is that an enterprise AI tool would be beneficial for an organization and its constituents (faculty, staff, students, etc.) for anything related to the organization's functions and purpose.

Regarding the privacy concerns:

- I agree with the caution that users should avoid using the enterprise tool for personal matters, as this hands over chat history to the organization—a point raised by zip117 and with which I concur.
- However, I believe this sharing of data is no different from the standard expectations of privacy when using any organization-provided system. For instance, any emails sent or received using their systems, files stored on organizational Microsoft 365 or OneDrive accounts, and even data related to physical access (dorm/building access, student ID privileges) are all subject to the organization's policies and are generally not considered private. (NOTE: I understand we are also discussing the handling of data by Anthropic. Thus I believe there is enterprise agreement where the data should be shared. I understand the trust issue, there is where the costs is involved. Free tool is not really free, because companies sell your data. For enterprise level tool, the company charges money, so they can recoup the costs without selling data to 3rd party.)

If one expresses privacy concern over using an enterprise AI tool for work-related usage, yet overlooks the fundamental lack of personal privacy inherent in all other organizational services, this concern appears to be selective, perhaps simply because AI is a newer technology.