Your AI chatbot may be polite, helpful — and terrible at keeping your secrets. A new study accepted at ICML 2026 pressure-tested 24 of the world’s leading AI models through 904 adversarial conversations and found that 17 of them fail to protect user privacy when pushed.
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I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon