The AI Pin

The name is obviously intended to capitalize on the recent interest in generative/large language model artificial intelligence.  Equally obviously, some AI is involved, as long as you allow your definition of AI to extend to mere speech-to-text capability.

Humane's AI Pin is a smartphone.  With no screen.  Attaching to your clothing with a magnet, it can make calls, take pictures, access the Internet, and even at need, project text (presumably later it will do images) onto surfaces using lasers.

In one sense, this is what I always figured that smartphones would become.  It is styled as a "smart assistant."  If you have a human assistant, you give them orders verbally, you don't type out commands.  (Unless you're sending them texts ...)

On the other hand, as we have seen in various events to do with Siri and Alexa, this is "always on" surveillance.  The AI Pin will always be listening for commands.  (And, in common with Siri, Alexa, Gboard, and all the others, those verbal commands will be sent back to HQ for processing into text and parsing.)  By accident (and possibly by design?) it will be listening to everything that goes on around you.  (And, with the camera, possibly looking, too.)

And, if it gets popular enough, who knows what you can find out with all that aggregated data ...