Aspiring

They say data is the new oil. I dunno but you have to have a way to protect yours, somehow, but also to share it, selectively of course.

In the digital world it makes sense to have some place to store and use your data, or have others use it if you allow.

So when you share it with different people, or agents, or apps, how you do that changes depending on who you’re sharing it with and many other things.

So there can be no universal rules about that.

If you told person A that all tech is political and you told person B that tech is always non-negotiable, and then you’re in an elevator with both A and B, what do you say? It depends.

I think this is a reasonable application for AI. To learn your personality well enough to approximate how to share your data in the digital world. Every person will be different, and will have different, and to their personal extent fluid, ideas about privacy, freedom, and everything else.

Of course you are more than just that pile of data, or the rules used about how to share that data. Its only a really crude approximation.

People should be able to do this individually, but only as the law allows, which means that for most groups of people, acting together through an organization like a company or a government, there will be a lot more universally applied rules.

So when a person interacts with a website, say for a utility company, the”personality learning AI”, for lack of a better name, would initially ask about giving up sensitive data like race or country of origin or family arrangements. It would learn from the person’s responses about how to respond to such requests in the future. It would assume nothing about how to go about it without the person very deliberately selecting defaults. This “personality learning AI” would also have to be instructed by the person about how and what information to share with other parties like taxing authorities or discount brokers. The person’s “sharing personality” might also be shared, selectively, with third parties, but of course defaulting to strict privacy.

Just dreaming…