Your AI Personal Assistant Knows Everything About You—Is That OK?

The most useful AI assistants are the ones that know you best. They've read your emails, seen your calendar, analyzed your habits. This personalization feels magical until you consider what you're trading away.

Every AI interaction creates data that can be stored, analyzed, and potentially exposed. That productivity app that reads your documents now has copies of your contracts. The email assistant knows your correspondence patterns. The voice assistant has recordings of conversations in your home. We're voluntarily creating detailed dossiers of our lives.

The question isn't whether AI assistants should have access to personal data—they need it to be useful. The question is: who else has access? Data breaches happen. Companies get acquired. Policies change. The AI assistant you trust today might be owned by a company you don't trust tomorrow. Consider what you're comfortable being exposed and design your AI usage accordingly.