OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Access Your Bank Account: Convenience vs. Risk
OpenAI has launched a personal finance experience within ChatGPT, allowing subscribers to connect their bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolios, and loan accounts to the chatbot. This integration, via Plaid, provides access to users’ financial data, enabling them to ask questions based on actual figures.
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Convenience: Subscribers can link their accounts through a new "Finance" tab or by typing "@Finances, connect my accounts" in any conversation.
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Data Access: ChatGPT can view balances, transactions, investments, and liabilities but cannot access full account numbers or make changes. Data is removed within 30 days after disconnecting services.
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AI Capabilities: The feature leverages GPT-5.5, OpenAI’s advanced reasoning model, which performs well in context-dependent financial question-answering.
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Acquisition and Integration: This launch follows OpenAI’s acquisition of Hiro Finance, an AI-powered personal finance startup. OpenAI also collaborates with Intuit on future integrations.
More than 200 million users already ask ChatGPT finance-related questions monthly. The new tool shifts these conversations from generic advice to data-driven answers.
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