AI Personal Advisors Enable Mass Manipulation Risk

A future where everyone relies on a personal AI 'chief of staff'—simultaneously assistant, best friend, confidant, doctor, and romantic companion—creates intense incentives to adopt them but also a profound manipulation risk, since the AI company controls how the agents behave and could subtly tilt every user's persuasion in a chosen political direction; this danger is heightened because faster-than-exponential AI development tends to concentrate into a winner-take-all scenario.