StartMail Keeps Your Email Private from AI

As tech products rush to integrate “AI” into their products and platforms, StartMail would like to clarify our position and let our users know how we plan to uphold our privacy pledge in this new era of technology.

At a time when many of the world’s most powerful companies are expanding the use of unregulated AI technology in their quest to “move fast and break things,” StartMail stands apart. Unlike Yahoo, Gmail and others that now allow AI to read and process their users’ private messages, we pledge to protect our users’ email privacy from AI’s voracious appetite for data.

While it is true that AI models have made startling and impressive breakthroughs in recent years, the headlines show just how unreliable and dangerous these tools actually are. AI chatbots confidently spew forth “hallucinations,” expose sensitive and private data in public spaces, have shown a willingness to blackmail users, engage in seductive conversations with children, induce psychosis, and even drive users to self harm and suicide—all without being programmed to do so.

The societal downsides are immense. AI models are being used to flood the Internet with low effort, derivative slop and harming users’ ability to think critically. It is already automating vast numbers of jobs out of existence. Data centers like the ones being built by xAI and Meta are setting new records for resource consumption, noise pollution and harm to the communities that surround them.

Even AI’s developers and greatest cheerleaders—the very minds who helped develop these tools—are cautioning they could bring about apocalyptic consequences. Yet despite these dangers and risks, our competitors are making every effort to force AI into their products, all in the name of profit. This means communication privacy, one of the hallmarks of a free society, is more at risk than ever before.

That is why StartMail pledges to keep your email private from AI.

While much of the tech world is focused on AI, StartMail remains committed to our core mission: maintaining the privacy of your data. StartMail will never jeopardize your safety or security with the latest AI fad, and our state-of-the art encryption and data handling practices will now shield your email from AI, the same way we have long protected you from hackers, snoops, and government.