Our interactions with generative AI tools start to affect our personal relationships, communication style, and mental health, as well as our own perception of each other’s capabilities. They also leave a new trace of signals that privacy professionals never had to contend with in the past.
As we approach the “personal agent” era, understanding where our individual freedoms and agency truly start and end becomes paramount. After a deeper offline conversation with Marina Taskova, we are today dipping our toes into a subject with profound implications for individual rights, freedom, data protection, commerce, advertising, and media. We will follow it up with other conversations on the topic, which falls right into our sweet spot.
Mirena is a senior expert in data governance, privacy, cybersecurity & AI as well as a lawyer. She was Chief Privacy Officer at Aura until recently, and has over 18 years of experience driving high-growth initiatives in privacy & data governance, AI, and enterprise technology, having held executive roles, including CPO and Managing Director positions. Mirena is a graduate of Stanford University in Law, Science & Technology and has worked in Europe and the US.
References:
Yngvi Karlson (Kin): the rise of the Personal AI Assistant (Masters of Privacy, August 2025)
Google Assistant puts an end to impolite queries with ‘Pretty Please’ feature (The Next Web, 2018)
Seven Lawsuits Allege OpenAI Encouraged Suicide and Harmful Delusions (WSJ)
A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem (The New Yorker, July 14 2025)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Wikipedia)
New California ‘Companion Chatbot’ Law Imposes Disclosure, Safety Protocol and Annual Reporting Requirements (JD Supra, Skadden)
Character.AI to Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots (New York Times, October 2025).
