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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 companionship and therapy.”
The presenter warned that interactions with large language models become part of the models’ training data and that some of the information people enter may be sensitive. “Everything that you do within AI, all the information you put in…is used to…train the model,” Speaker 1 said, adding that data could include “maybe your address, maybe your phone number, maybe your age, maybe your test scores.”
The forum discussion framed the shift as an educational and community concern: Speaker 1 said the change in how people use AI extends beyond classroom research or content generation to relationships and therapeutic-style interactions, and that this broadening of use warrants closer oversight and guidance for students and families.
The presenter did not outline a specific policy or legal remedy at the meeting; the remarks were framed as a warning and a call for attention rather than a formal proposal. There were no motions or votes related to AI at the session. The forum continued with separate speakers who discussed youth safety and school-based trafficking education.
