The moment you introduce AI tools to your home, a second job starts. Nobody offers it to you. Nobody explains the scope.
You become the household’s IT department.
That means scanning the network regularly — not because you don’t trust what you installed, but because someone else might have added something. A smart plug, a shared app, a service that needed access and got it. The blast radius of your decisions now extends to people who didn’t make them.
I started segregating drives. Work files on one partition, personal on another, family shared folders nowhere near either. Not paranoia — the same discipline I apply professionally. Define the perimeter before something tests it.
The early adopter usually thinks about the upside. What arrives quietly is the responsibility. Every security decision you make in that household, you make for people who aren’t thinking about it.
You didn’t apply for this. But it’s yours.