Your Messages are Being Read! || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Is Technology & AI Making Us Smarter or Distracted? || Acharya Prashant with NDTV @ IIT Delhi (2025)

Transcript

00:00Aren't you scared, aren't you worried that your phone's listening in to even what we're talking about right now?

00:04First of all, why should you talk of things that need to be kept hidden?

00:09What about privacy?

00:10Please understand that privacy, etc., they are going to be thrown out of the window.

00:16As technology progresses, everything that you do is going to be watched.

00:21Zuckerberg admitted recently your WhatsApp is being read.

00:24Now people are switching to signal.

00:25So there is no way you will have privacy of the, or at least an assurance of the privacy of the old kind.

00:32Are we making our choices on our own or is our phone making our choices for us?

00:36See, that's the way it is even in the so-called real world.

00:39The phone, we all know, the algorithm, it amplifies your choices.

00:43It reads what you like and then it keeps presenting the same things to you, right?

00:48Social media represents who we are.

00:50The algorithm knows that you must be talked to only sweetly.

00:53Which means that if you want to look at this, this, this, this, this kind of stuff,

00:58you must not be shown the other kind of stuff.