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I am obsessed with the comments on this post, "Do you spend as much as you thought in retirement?" Especially the first one

A famous person wore a secret hidden wire while speaking with me about AI, and I want to talk about it. Backstage at a recent AI event, I was talking with someone about private views on AI investments and strategy. We were both unfiltered. At one point, I joked, “We should’ve recorded this - we’re dropping gems!” He tapped his chest. “Oh,” he said. “I’m always mic’d up.” I laughed. “Wait, are you wearing a wire?” “Yes.” He had a secret mic under his shirt the whole time. No disclosure. No consent. Just recording. I felt completely violated. Not because I said anything wrong, but because I didn’t choose to share it. As I think about the future - AI-powered glasses like meta rayban, smart earbuds like airpods, recording necklaces like limitless - these are tools that serve their owner, while extracting data from everyone else nearby. The benefits are asymmetric. The consent is invisible. We talk a lot about surveillance capitalism and corporate tracking. But I do think we’re also going to see both intentional and unintentional “interpersonal surveillance” (honestly it’s already happening now with friend search, purchases, and Bluetooth/WiFi tracking, and with people constantly filming everything in their lives on their phones). The ones wielding the tech get a boost. Everyone else is turned into passive data sources. If always-on wearables become the norm, I’m thinking we also see a new kind of social friction. People will retreat. Trust between friends will erode. And ironically, those recording everything might find themselves with fewer conversations in real life. The cost of ambient AI might be wider than we first thought.