Every AI platform you use is quietly building a file on you. They call it "memory" and say it improves the experience. Maybe, but your preferences, finances, relationships, and intentions are accumulating inside systems you don't control and can't see into. We've watched this pattern before, with the web itself. Sir Tim Berners-Lee saw the web's centralization coming and built an alternative. Now he's pointing it at AI. With Inrupt CEO John Bruce, he'll walk through Charlie — an agent that sits between you and the tools you already use, deciding what each one actually needs to know and keeping your data portable rather than locked to one platform. The premise is simple and far from settled: AI can be useful without owning you.
