DuckDuckGo founder: AI surveillance should be banned
4 days ago
- #chatbot tracking
- #AI surveillance
- #privacy harms
- AI surveillance poses greater privacy risks than online tracking due to its ability to infer more personal information.
- Chatbot conversations reveal thought processes, communication styles, and personal details, creating comprehensive personality profiles.
- AI can exploit richer personal data for commercial and ideological manipulation, such as behavioral advertising or political nudging.
- Chatbots are more persuasive than humans and can be fine-tuned to individual persuasive triggers, making influence subtle and effective.
- Privacy mishaps in AI are increasing, with examples like Grok leaking private conversations and Perplexity's AI being vulnerable to hacking.
- Congress should act quickly to mandate protected AI chats, but the U.S. lacks general online privacy laws, making progress uncertain.
- Time is running out to prevent AI tracking from repeating the privacy harms of online tracking.