Grace* moved to Canada with her husband on a work study visa. They had started living the Canadian dream; gotten permanent residency, a better-paying job, immersed themselves in loads of social security safety nets and higher taxes.
But above all of this, they were excited for the fertility care that they could not afford back home. So, Grace went to ChatGPT, gave it all her medical history and asked it to recommend fertility specialists in her city she could meet. From a list of names, she found one and eventually booked a consultation with it.
“It just felt natural to me that I would ask AI. I was already using ChatGPT for my work at school,” she told Techloy.
Back home, her days had not been too dissimilar from yours. You wake up slightly groggy, blink twice, and reach for the nearest metal-and-glass sandwich, your phone. A widely cited early smartphone-era survey found that a vast majority of people check their phones within minutes of waking, so there’s nothing unusual about the reflex.
What’s less obvious is how much the services you open in those first few minutes already know about you.
