Acceptability of AI Assistants for Privacy: Perceptions of Experts and Users on Personalized Privacy Assistants

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Individuals increasingly face an overwhelming number of tasks and decisions.

• To cope with the new reality, there is growing research interest in developing intelligent agents that can effectively assist people across various aspects of daily life in a tailored manner, with privacy emerging as a particular area of application.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) assistants for privacy, such as personalized privacy assistants (PPAs), have the potential to automatically execute privacy decisions based on users' pre-defined privacy preferences, sparing them the mental effort and time usually spent on each privacy decision.
• This helps ensure that, even when users feel overwhelmed or resigned about privacy, the decisions made by PPAs still align with their true preferences and best interests.