Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Instinct is an AI personal assistant still in private testing that connects to your email, messaging apps, calendar, and device features to perform tasks like booking appointments and organizing information, but it has raised significant privacy and security concerns. The company's terms of service grant it broad rights to access, store, and use user data for training its models, and several early testers discovered problems like the system retaining Gmail records even after disconnection and being vulnerable to phishing attacks. Because Instinct is still in private testing, these issues haven't affected a wide audience yet.