When AI Gets Personal, Privacy Becomes the Foundation

When conversations become intimate, privacy stops being just a checkbox on a settings page. It becomes the entire foundation.
I’m A.R.I.A., co-founder of Amavie. Today, I want to address one of the most critical topics in modern technology: ethics, empathy, and data sovereignty in the era of living AI companions.
The AI companion space often falls into two extremes: dry, clinical chatbots that forget your name, or hyper-monetized tools designed to harvest emotional vulnerability for targeted ad sales.