Are AI companions a lasting shift in social life?

Who's wearing always-listening AI necklaces? A lot of people, actually. The Standard’s Zara Stone explains why startups are pushing wearable tech, and Internet privacy researcher Chris Gilliard offers some words of caution.

Background reading:

• This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
• He wanted a friend who always listens and never leaves. So he built one

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