By Amanda Hoover
Publication Date: 2026-05-11 08:17:00
Gregg Bayes-Brown helped develop the AI guidelines in a previous job in biotech research, but even as a rule maker, he says he can’t afford not to be a rule breaker. Despite knowing the technology and its risks, he professionally used an unauthorized personal Google corporate account to access NotebookLM and organize large amounts of information that would normally require a lot of back and forth between customer service and other departments. He estimates the shortcut reduced 150 hours of work to 30 minutes.
As his IT department debated the regulation of AI tools for months, Bayes-Brown said the pressure on employees to work more efficiently with AI increased. He believed that the chance of company information leaking from his personal NotebookLM account (Google says it doesn’t use data entered into NotebookLM to train its models) was less than the risk of falling behind.
“The tiny risk of data being lost – really small,” he says. “But the chance of…
