Would you trust an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Gemini with your emails, financial data, or even browsing habits and data? Most of us would probably answer no to that question, and yet that’s exactly what companies like OpenAI and Perplexity are asking us to do with their new AI browsers, Atlas and Comet.
OpenAI’s Atlas is a new browser with ChatGPT built-in, and it goes much further than Google’s addition of Gemini to Chrome. Atlas has agentic capabilities meaning the AI can surf the internet on your behalf by opening tabs, navigating to specific websites, clicking on buttons, and even filling in text fields. If that sounds like a potential game-changer, I’d like to temper that excitement because it’s also a big security gamble. Here’s why I’m not switching to Atlas in a hurry.
