Are AI Wearables Just Trojan Horses for Corporate Surveillance? | Utilizing AI Episode 33

Your new AI smart glasses might look like a sci-fi dream, but they are rapidly turning into a corporate panopticon designed to mine your daily life.

In this episode of Utilizing AI, host Stephen Foskett sits down with Futurum Group analysts Olivier Blanchard and Brad Shimmin to dissect the sudden explosion of consumer AI devices—from Meta’s latest smart glasses to Apple Intelligence.

The panel tackles a critical industry question: Are these devices genuinely responding to consumer demand, or are tech giants forcing them onto the market to subsidize massive data collection exercises?

Moving past the initial feature hype, they expose the thin line between a helpful “Big Butler” and an invasive “Big Brother,” explaining why the industry’s lack of transparency is breaking consumer trust and how an ethical shift toward user-rewarded data partnerships is the only way forward.