Privacy in the age of A.I.

The psychologist Josh Cohen said, "Privacy, precisely because it ensures we're never fully known to others or to ourselves, provides a shelter for imaginative freedom, curiosity and self-reflection. So to defend the private self is to defend the very possibility of creative and meaningful life." The IoT brings with it a deluge of devices for our homes that are always on, always listening, sometimes watching. These omniscient objects are designed to have human traits to encourage us to be ourselves around them so we interact with them eagerly and often. But this could come to damage our sense of privacy as we become more and more aware of what we say and do around them -- and we run the risk of altering our behaviour accordingly.