https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/13/apple-smart-home-hub-20...
I wonder if this new Siri would be limited to Pro devices. It would be strange for Apple to release a new feature exclusive for Pro devices that wasn’t mentioned in the September iPhone event.
LLMs locally on smart devices with access to all the sensors and doing RAG over the internet and all that will also have some dire consequences.
Point being, it's humans that are the problem, that abuse tech. We need lots of laws and regulation yesterday. I don't know what else could be done beyond the destruction of democracy and post-WW2 peace but I'm sure there are people plotting how to abuse this already and no one to stop them.
I'll give you an example, should local LLMs be used to psychologically influence a person's behavior (advertisers would love that!). How about to measure and classify a person for their credit worthiness, job worthiness, potential to support or oppose a political opponent? I'm fairly certain there are people already working on how to influence elections or destabilize democracies with this already.
LLMs aren't new, but their access to phones is. and app makers can say "we're not tracking you" so long as they don't send what they collect off-device. they can just use the LLM to collect indirect information and use personal information to suggest and influence people.
We still don't have nation-wide (good) privacy laws in the US. GDPR and EU privacy laws exist but they're at least a decade behind the tech out there and nowhere near effective at targeting or deterring violators beyond some penalties against big tech.
It doesn't seem like there is any hope of stopping this, the cat is out of the bag.
This is like how we had flip phones with browsers and apps before the iphone..and then the iphone changed the game.
