AI chatbots know more about you than you realise (opens in new tab)

From a few basic questions, the kind of day-to-day things you might ask a friend or family member, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. Emotional maturity, relationship status, financial constraints, professional ambition and even your health — none of which you were asked about directly, and most of which you hadn’t realised you’d shared. Using the powerful pattern processing inherent to artificial intelligence, chatbots simply inferred these detail...