The amount Google’s AI knows about you is causing an uncomfortable tingling sensation on your scalp

We all know that tech companies keep tabs on everything about our online habits. But it’s another thing to actually face How a lot of data they have about you.

This was the experience of tech journalist Pranav Dixit, who experimented with using Google’s new “Personal Intelligence” feature for Gemini and its search engine’s AI mode. And boy, did it get personal. The AI ​​was able to dig up everything from his license plate number to his parents’ vacation history, sometimes without him being directly prompted.

“Personal Intelligence feels like Google has been quietly taking notes my whole life and finally decided to give me the notebook,” Dixit wrote in an article for Business Insider.

Google launched Personal Intelligence for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers last week. Once you sign in, the AI ​​can search your Gmail and Google Photos accounts,…