Back up before AI can change your files.

Do this

1. Before you connect an AI tool to a folder, drive or database, make a backup the tool can’t reach.
2. Test the backup by restoring one file from it.
3. Instead of letting an assistant reorganize your shared drive directly, have it work on a copy and review the result first.

Sources

• U.S. Small Business Administration, Manage your business: Strengthen your cybersecurity, “Back up your data”: regular backups, weekly to cloud storage if possible
• IMDA Singapore, Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI, Version 1.5 (2026), section 2.1.1, reversibility of an agent’s actions (p. 16); section 2.1.2, limiting an agent’s area of impact (p. 19)