India, May 16 -- A few months ago, I began experimenting more aggressively with AI voice and transcription tools. Like many journalists and knowledge workers drowning in meetings and interviews, I found the promise irresistible. The software could record conversations, transcribe discussions, and retrieve forgotten fragments almost instantly. It felt, in some ways, like outsourcing memory itself.

At first, the experience was liberating. One tool, WhisperFlow, dramatically reduced the friction involved in writing and dictation. Ideas that would otherwise disappear sometime after a conversation, could suddenly be captured effortlessly. But the more I used it, the more uneasy I became. The software appeared capable of seeing far more contex...