Joe Maring / Android Authority
I knew this was going to happen one day when AI would become this omnipresent power that knows every single detail about our daily routines and us in general. It’s inevitable. This form of advanced personal intelligence hasn’t just been propagated — it has been actively solicited from both sides. The dream was that AI would be your companion, so personal that no human assistant could ever match the depth of context and information it holds about you, offering hyper-personalized help.
But now that the future is almost upon us with Gemini’s Personal Intelligence, it feels deeply unsettling for me, so much so that I’ve grown very wary of it.
Where are you comfortable letting AI build long-term memory about you? 27 votes Work accounts only 7 % Personal accounts only 4 % Both 15 % Neither 74 %
Gemini already has a lot on me — and intentionally so
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority
Personal Intelligence from Google isn’t the first time Gemini has had access to my life. It already lives inside Gmail and Docs through my Workspace account, and with my consent.
I use it all the time to dig up information from old threads, summarize conversations, and find decisions buried in complicated email chains. I can query almost anything from the sidebar and be as specific as I like. For instance, I can ask about potential clients I reached out to last year but didn’t close deals with, and it usually gets me an accurate answer.
Sometimes it feels almost magical. I’ve caught myself thinking how much of a better assistant it is, digging up information in seconds that would take a human several hours.
But there’s a crucial difference here. I gave conscious consent to this virtual assistant, and a professional contract binds everything.
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