AI-enabled consumer electronics are moving quickly into daily life, fuelling backlash over privacy as devices such as TVs with background recording, earbuds that offer call recording and smart glasses that can film what wearers see become commonplace. Mozilla Foundation communications director Lauren Hendry Parsons warned of “surveillance chic” and said privacy-by-design must protect bystanders as well as buyers. AGI CEO Div Garg said AI wearables need not send data to the cloud if models run on-device.

Debate is intensifying over how to respond to new security threats emerging from the spread of AI, with alliances expanding beyond security firms to include semiconductor and platform companies. Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance formed a first working group and released proposals for confidential reporting and post-incident analysis. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for mandatory disclosure of hacks targeting AI firms. Reports and tests also raised concerns about AI misuse, vulnerabilities and faster exploitation.