Social media giant Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is only the latest company to draw legal heat over its technology -- specifically, its artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. In this episode of "The AI/ML Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on Feb. 16, Fool.com contributors Toby Bordelon and Jason Hall discuss how the debate of AI versus privacy continues to rage on. Toby Bordelon: We talked about data protection and privacy, I think, a decent amount with Facebook, and you can see what happens when that goes badly. If you don't follow those rules, $650 million with maybe more to come, and that can put a damper on what you can do. You want data to train AI well.

On May 8th, Google announced the development of a revolutionary new AI product called Google Duplex. This super-powered extension of the Google Assistant will be able to make phone calls on your behalf and speak to real people in a believable voice to make appointments or find out information. The new technology is undoubtedly impressive and groundbreaking, but what new privacy and security concerns arise when we start letting AIs make phone calls and real-life appointments for us? Google calls it "an AI system for accomplishing real-life tasks over the phone," and indeed, the applications for such a technology seem almost limitless. For now, however, Google says that Duplex will be limited to a narrow set of tasks it has been trained to perform.