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Presenter warns shift in AI use toward companionship raises privacy concerns for students
Summary
A presenter at a public forum said AI’s most common uses moved from research and content generation in 2024 to companionship and therapy in 2025, raising concerns that personal data entered into large language models — including addresses and test scores — could be used to retrain systems.
Speaker 1, a presenter at the forum, said the most common uses of artificial intelligence have shifted rapidly and urged attendees to consider the privacy consequences. “In 2024, do you know what the most common use was for AI? … information retrieval,” Speaker 1 said. “One year later in 2025, do you know what the most popular use is for AI? It is…
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