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The premature failures of consumer AI agents reveal a hard constraint on the category's growth: users won't tolerate the data collection and unpredictable behavior required to make these systems useful. Unlike search or social platforms where privacy erosion happened gradually and felt inevitable, personal agents ask for explicit access to emails, calendars, and banking information upfront. That visibility makes the trust problem immediate and actionable, particularly as high-profile fumbles accumulate.