ChatGPT can now read and control your Chrome tabs
OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome so it can "see" a user's open tabs when tagged in a conversation, shortly after the company shut down its own browser, ChatGPT Atlas. In examples the company shared, a user can ask ChatGPT to compare products across open tabs, fill out a registration form using details pulled from another tab, or add a doctor's appointment to both their work and personal calendars. The ChatGPT Work tier also gains the ability to "control" Chrome tabs, sending messages, filling out forms or downloading files on the user's behalf, similar to the auto-browse feature Google's Gemini already offers. The upgrade means an AI agent, a tool that carries out tasks on its own, now gets access to whatever a user has open in their browser, potentially including sensitive data in banking portals, medical sites or internal company systems if left open in a tab. For a business, this shifts the tool's trust boundary, since anything loaded in a Chrome tab becomes potentially visible to and editable by ChatGPT, which is worth weighing before allowing the extension on machines with access to sensitive company data.
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