Blogpost: Agentic AI Security: The Chatbot Era Is Already Over.
...our AI Agent Could Become the Most Personal Attack Surface Ever Built. The more personal data we put in contact with them, the more power… and the more danger. Buckle up!
Topic: personal data
13 chunks · 13 episodes
3.1x burst in 2025 Q3
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Peak quarter intensity across the topic's active span. Higher values mean attention was concentrated into a shorter stretch rather than spread evenly over time.
Topic summary
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- personal data appears in 13 chunks across 13 episodes, from 2024-04-15 to 2026-08-10.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/15/24 (2024-04-15), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Cursor, privacy model, and wild west, while by chunk count it sits between frog dna and predictive model; its yearly rank moved from #137 in 2024 to #118 in 2026.
Over time
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Observations
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You need your data with you in your agentic loop.
...op. Your agentic loop is where all the value is generated. The more context and personal data in the loop with you, the better it can assist you. That compounding loop is so powerful that users won't brook not having it.
This week in the Wild West roundup.
.... Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data
Someone should create consumer infrastructure to use LLMs deeply with your personal data… safely.
Someone should create consumer infrastructure to use LLMs deeply with your personal data… safely.
Wired: We need protections for personal data in chatbots.
Wired: We need protections for personal data in chatbots. People are using chatbots things as their therapists, but without any protection against subpoenas or other privilege. The companies run...
I want a tool to vibe code with my personal data.
I want a tool to vibe code with my personal data. Safely. It will require collaboration. My canonical personal data has to be synchronized with others (e.g. my husband.) So that implies it can' just...
This week's round up of "we're in the wild west era with LLMs":
...ll: "It's Staggeringly Easy for Hackers to Trick ChatGPT Into Leaking Your Most Personal Data"
The McDonalds application AI leaked tons of personal data.
The McDonalds application AI leaked tons of personal data. The problem wasn't prompt injection per se, it was just a poorly configured and secured system. Still, I imagine we'll see a lot of these kinds of t...
A quote I highlighted a few years ago in Yuval Harari's Homo Deus that just came back up in my Readwise:
...s and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are giving it to the tech giants in exchange for email services and fu...
We need a new digital home for the age of AI.
...s important to us. There's always been the dream of a universal account for our personal data, but now with the power and promise and danger of AI, it becomes an existential requirement. Your digital home must be something you own, not rent. I...
An emerging use case adjacent to MCP: personal data workshop.
An emerging use case adjacent to MCP: personal data workshop. A place where you import your personal data to vibe code on. People want it so badly that they're crawling through broken glass to get it. ...
Data has combinatorial power.
... more potential than in either data source alone. This is also true for our own personal data. One reason we don't regularly experience this combinatorial power is because in a vertical, app-based world it's not possible. And the small number ...
Imagine an ecosystem of software with alternate laws of physics.
...more and more meaningful and valuable as time goes on. Both as they add in more personal data to the system from any use case But also as the ecosystem grows in size and possibility, even without them. This means that users might start with a ...