Your Phone Heard Everything (opens in new tab)

Every morning, roughly two billion people wake up and talk to their phones. They ask about the weather. They dictate messages to lovers, colleagues, and therapists. They request directions to clinics they would rather not name aloud. They ask questions about symptoms they have not yet mentioned to a doctor. They do all of this without pausing to consider a simple, uncomfortable fact: every one of those queries is now processed by artificial intelligence systems so vast and so opaque that not ...