But that’s not how most consumer-facing technology companies view your input data. If you know my work, you know I’m a huge fan of advertising – I’ve built my career in related fields of publishing, media, and advertising technology. Wouldn’t it be cool if Auren, which calls itself a “superhuman emotional intelligence, memory, and therapeutic capability,” could connect with and be informed by your OpenAI identity? “Presumably,” he continues, “the details of [our conversations with Auren] could then flow the other way to my AI identity [at OpenAI].”It’s always the presumptions, damnit. Put another way, Thompson is praising OpenAI’s move toward “owning AI identity” as consistent with the standard technology industry playbook of locking us into using its services, forever.