The book’s vocabulary

Context isolation

What helps choose dinner should not help assess an employee.

From The World That Agrees With You2 sections of the book1 related post

Keeping information supplied for one purpose from influencing decisions made for another. Personal and workplace context separate first; then boundaries within each — employee reviews, compensation, a legal matter, ordinary project work.

A separate chat title is not an access control. The workflow has to preserve the confidentiality the task requires: who can retrieve the information, where it is retained, and whether another context can use it.

Definition from The World That Agrees With You: Understanding and Managing Sycophancy in the Age of AI, by Timothy O’Brien. © 2026 Timothy O’Brien. All rights reserved.

In the book

See also

  • Memory controls
  • Personalization
  • Retrieval scope