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F 1 D 11 C 4 B 2
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GitHub Copilot

Your AI pair programmer that learned to code by reading everyone else's code without asking.

What changed Grade C held(Unchanged)

The Ninth Circuit ruled on September 16, 2026 that GitHub and OpenAI did not violate the DMCA by generating code without the original copyright notices, ending the case that threatened about $9 billion in damages. The ruling covers only that one claim, so questions about training on public code remain open. No score moved: the decision changes the legal picture, not what Copilot collects or does.

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C
Use With Caution
Privacy
6
Bias
3
Job threat
8
Autonomy
6
Lock-in
6

The Index

Highest risk first
F
Autonomous Tesla

Tesla Autopilot / FSD

A $15,000 promise of self-driving that's killed people and still calls itself 'Full Self-Driving.'

Grade F held risk 7.8 → 8.2(Worse)
high risk
D
Creative Suno New

Suno

Half of Deezer's daily uploads are now synthetic, and 55 million Suno accounts surfaced in a breach index eight months after the incident.

use with caution
D
Creative ElevenLabs New

ElevenLabs

Your voice becomes a model in somebody else's account, and you cannot take it with you when you leave.

use with caution
D
Surveillance Flock Safety

Flock Safety

Twenty billion vehicle scans a month, searchable by 5,000 police agencies. There is no opt-out, because you were never asked.

high risk
D
Creative Adobe

Adobe Firefly

Trained on data it actually paid for, which is rarer than it should be. Getting back out of Adobe is the expensive part.

Grade C → D risk 5.8 → 6.6(Worse)
use with caution
D
Search Perplexity AI

Perplexity

Now ships an agent that works your files and apps around the clock, while still being sued by nearly every major newsroom.

Grade C → D risk 5.4 → 6.2(Worse)
use with caution
D
Creative Midjourney, Inc.

Midjourney

Your prompts and pictures are public unless you pay $60 a month, and three Hollywood studios are asking a court to switch it off.

high risk
D
Enterprise Otter.ai, Inc.

Otter.ai

The bot your colleague invited to the call, recording everyone else on a consent nobody but the host gave.

high risk
D
Chatbot Google

Google Gemini

Google already had all your data. Now it has a chatbot that can actually use it.

Grade D held risk 7.2 → 7.4(Worse)
high risk
D
Chatbot OpenAI New

ChatGPT

Knows more about you than your therapist. Reports to a company that wants to be God.

high risk
D
Enterprise Workday New

Workday AI Recruiting

The screening layer between you and a billion job applications, with its bias testing sealed under attorney-client privilege.

high risk
D
Surveillance Amazon

Amazon Alexa

A corporate spy you bought with your own money, placed in your bedroom, and thanked for the weather report.

high risk
C
Enterprise Microsoft Corporation New

Microsoft 365 Copilot

It reads everything your login can already open, which is how most tenants find out what their login can already open.

use with caution
C
Autonomous Alphabet

Waymo

Measurably safer than the drivers it replaces, wrapped in a 360-degree camera that never stops recording the street.

use with caution
C
Hardware Meta / EssilorLuxottica New

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

A camera and microphone worn on your face, wired to Meta. The people around you never agreed to any of it.

use with caution
B
Assistant Apple

Apple Intelligence

The only AI on this Index whose privacy claims you can go and check yourself. The accuracy claims are another matter.

moderate risk
B
Surveillance Microsoft

Microsoft Recall

A screenshot of your screen every five seconds, indexed and searchable. It never leaves the laptop, which is the only reason this is not an F.

moderate risk
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