Last week, a friend texted to ask when I would arrive in New Orleans for her wedding. My phone immediately pulled my flight itinerary from an email to respond to her with the arrival time.

Another friend recommended that I check out an Ethiopian restaurant nearby. My phone instantly loaded a map showing where it was.

And when I took a photo of my corgi, Max, my phone coached me to take a better one by framing him in the bottom-right corner.

The phone that did all this was Google’s new $1,000 Pixel 10 Pro, which arrives in stores this week. Google describes the device as an artificially intelligent phone, a new kind of smartphone that requires persistent access to users’ personal data, including their contacts, location, messages and email, to anticipate their needs. In other words, it’s a phone that essentially uses people’s apps to save them time.

But is this what people really want? I pondered this question as I tested the Pixel phone over the last week, surrendering my data to Google’s A.I. in exchange for some help.

I came away from the experiment with mixed feelings. Streamlining tedious tasks, like sharing my flight itinerary in a text message, was helpful. But it didn’t sit well that I had shared so much information just to save a few seconds.