Reddit debate: are we too comfortable letting AI remember everything about us?
Inner-Conference-189 · reddit · 2026-09-16
A Reddit user kicked off a discussion on AI memory: it's useful, but the authorization creep is real. Give an AI access to years of chats, then email, calendar, documents, eventually messages from other apps — and it ends up knowing more about your life than any single person.
The counterintuitive point: nobody would deliberately build a database of everything about themselves, yet because each individual permission is convenient, we hand it all to one system. He asks the community where to draw the line between useful context and way too much context.
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