The AI device privacy issue is becoming a hardware design feature and a business policy. After privacy criticisms and a lawsuit alleging that Meta used recordings to train its AI, the company presented audio-only, camera-free versions of its smart glasses. Others in big tech are signaling towards similar directions. Sam Altman said OpenAI’s planned always-on device would process information locally, since users won’t accept something watching and listening to them.
A recent Johnson Controls report found that 45 percent of leaders planning to implement a workplace management solution are rolling out environmental and occupancy sensors. Of the nearly two-thirds (67 percent) of business leaders using a workplace management solution, 45 percent already use environmental and occupancy sensors.
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