OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts
2026-05-15 · The Verge
OpenAI wants ChatGPT to peek at your bank statements now, because apparently knowing your deepest thoughts wasn't enough — it needs to see your deepest overdrafts too. The company announced a Plaid integration that lets users 'securely connect' their financial accounts to the chatbot, combining the trustworthiness of AI hallucinations with the sensitivity of your bank balance. What could possibly go wrong when the company that can't stop leaking data gets access to 12,000 financial institutions?