AI companions are coming. Privacy rules are not ready
The traditional privacy model is built around data collection. Chatbots require new rules of inference protection.
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The reason chatbots refer to themselves as “I” is not because that is the best way to share information with us. It’s the best way to keep us sharing information with them, says the writer.
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In Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV frames artificial intelligence as more than a technological challenge: AI calls into question the value and worth of the human person. The parallel with Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 response to the Industrial Revolution, is deliberate. Then, the Church confronted a world in which labour and capital were being remade by machines that threatened to turn workers into means rather than ends.
Today, the question is whether human beings will continue to be understood as persons rather than profiles.
