Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to detect leaked passwords and replace them

Rather than just warn you, Chrome will guide you to making a better password.

Feb 11, 2025 - 20:05

Google Chrome may soon use “AI” to detect leaked passwords and replace them

Google's Chrome browser might soon get a useful security upgrade: detecting passwords used in data breaches and then generating and storing a better replacement. Google says it's an "AI innovation," though exactly how is not clear.

Noted software digger Leopeva64 on X (formerly Twitter), found a new offering in the AI settings of a very early build of Chrome. The option, "Automated password Change" (so, early stages—as to not yet get a copyedit), is described as, "When Chrome finds one of your passwords in a data breach, it can offer to change your password for you when you sign in."

Chrome already has a feature that warns users if passwords they enter have been identified in a breach and will prompt the user to change it. As noted by Windows Report, the change is that now Google will offer to change it for you on the spot, rather than simply prompting you to handle that elsewhere. The password is automatically saved in Google's Password Manager and "is encrypted and never seen by anyone," the settings page claims.

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