AI will supercharge surveillance capitalism — and we're not ready

Where social media inferred your inner life from behaviour, AI receives it directly in your own words and in real time 

Megan Garcia’s son had been communicating with a chatbot designed to impersonate Daenerys Targaryen from ‘Game of Thrones’. File picture

Megan Garcia did not set out to become one of the most consequential figures in the fight to regulate AI.

A lawyer and mother of three, Garcia is the kind of parent who notices things. When her eldest child Sewell turned 14, he quit the basketball team, retreated to his bedroom, and grew quiet in disconcerting ways.