HACKER Q&A
📣 aurintex

Would you trust an AI that sees and hears everything you do?


I'm currently in a very early phase of my project. Therefore, I'm interested in your opinions about this.

Imagine an AI (e.g. wearable) is always integrated into your daily life. It sees what you see and hears what you hear.

Do you think this will be the future — that AI will be more integrated into your daily life? Or is humanity not yet ready for something like that? VR glasses are also sometimes very polarizing when it comes to data protection and privacy.


  👤 conartist6 Accepted Answer ✓
Trust it with what? Trust it to do what?

There's one thing AI can't do, and that's actually care about anyone or anything. It's the rough equivalent a psychopath. It would push you to a psychotic break with reality with its sycophancy just a happily as it would, say, murder you if given motive means and opportunity.


👤 codingdave
No!

👤 neximo64
Rewind was quite good

👤 HardwareLust
No.

👤 firefax
I don't trust god, I don't trust man, why would I trust a god made by man?

👤 JohnFen
I don't know about humanity, but I wouldn't use such a thing. I think it's unconscionable to impose such surveillance on unconsenting others. I would actively avoid being near anyone who did, to the best of my ability, as well.

👤 paulcole
Yes, I would trust this 100%.

👤 sph
Long answer: fuck no. Not even if it was free. Not even if it was libre software.

👤 mikewarot
No. Photography is a hobby, and even with a DSLR not hooked to any networking there are some things that just shouldn't be recorded.

For instance I've never brought my camera to a funeral. Most daily life deserves the right to be forgotten.

Then there are privacy laws, etc.


👤 skx001
Absolutely not.

👤 kylecazar
You're going to capture hours of me walking and/or seemingly doing nothing. Without access to my thoughts, this won't be useful to me -- other than to maybe surface a reminder of something I forgot (and that's not worth it).

👤 whitehexagon
I only just got rid of my spy-phone, why would I want something with even more intrusive spying on me. I certainly would not inflict that upon others. A sure way to lose friends fast.

BigTech has burned so much good will at this point, that every new venture just feels like a timer ticking down to a bait and switch for ad revenue, subscriptions, pro features or just selling our data to the highest bidder.

And what happens to 'local' data when the 3 letter agencies want access. No thanks, sounds completely dystopian. If the data is there, someone will find a way to abuse it.


👤 diamond559
No.

👤 Froedlich
Sounds like Jeff Duntmann's "jiminy", which he wrote about in PC Techniques magazine back in 1992. A matchbox-sized general purpose computer and life log, infrared connections to peripherals as needed, with a mesh network to other jiminies and the internet-at-large. Jeff didn't use the term "AI", but that would describe how it worked.

http://www.duntemann.com/End14.htm

Elon Musk's portable-Grok-thing is a long step toward the jiminy idea.


👤 nmeagent
Consider a world where a sizeable fraction of the population has and uses such a device, such that its presence is assumed and ultimately mandated by authoritarian law enforcement entities, surveillance capitalist firms, and so on. Can you imagine the inescapable nightmare this would become even with the norms of today? Do you really want to offer fuzzy recall of two of five senses to "legitimate legal process", rapacious marketers, or anyone else who somehow gains access to these data?

Personally I would consider it a moral imperative to refuse to use such a device and to avoid anyone who does otherwise.

So no, please don't create such a thing. Stop now.


👤 GeoAtreides
The only '''''AI''''' I would trust with that is a Culture Mind. And maybe Earth Bet Dragon.

Definitely won't trust AI shackled to other humans.


👤 fleeting900
Sometimes I feel like I live in a parallel universe to these guys who see value in things like this.

Where my life is mundane shit that most of the time I don’t even need the current generation of tech anywhere near. Walking the dog. Playing with and looking after my kids. Everyday conversations and intimacy with my wife. Barbecues with friends. Work.

And these guys lives are just working out, coding, and cooking on-trend dishes with expensive cookware, all to be relentlessly optimised.