Can Chrome’s AI Autofill really read your Gmail to fill out forms — and how do you turn it off?

Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms, TechCrunch reported October 28 — pulling names, addresses and booking details from your mail. Here is what it is trying to do, why the convenience-versus-privacy trade-off matters, and the exact settings to review or turn off.

Short answer: yes. TechCrunch reported on October 28 that Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now look through your Gmail to fill out forms — pulling details such as your name, addresses and booking information out of your messages, so a checkout or travel form fills itself in.Why it matters: your inbox quietly holds exactly the facts forms ask for — confirmations, addresses, dates — which makes it a tempting source. But the same reach that saves typing means a browser feature is reading private mail to do it, and anything it pulls from an old message can be wrong or out of date.

Convenience and privacy are the same dial here: turning one up turns the other down, so the setting deserves a deliberate choice, not a default.Turn it off — or rein it in — step by step:1. Open Chrome Settings, then Autofill (labelled “Autofill and passwords” on some versions), from the three-dot menu.2. Review each Autofill category one by one — payment methods, addresses and more, and passwords — and open anything AI-enhanced to see what it is allowed to use.3.

Turn off anything you do not want used, especially offers to save and fill payment information.4. For sensitive work — banking, taxes, health — sign out of Chrome, or use a separate Chrome profile that is not signed into your Gmail, so there is no inbox for Autofill to read.5. Never let autofill store card numbers, ID numbers or passwords on a shared or family computer, and delete anything already saved there.Common mistake: approving a pre-filled form without reading it.

AI that learned from old emails can insert an old address or an outdated name — read every field before you submit, every time.Ad’s take: Autofill is a fine servant for the boring fields. Your inbox, though, is your filing cabinet — you decide who gets a key.