Smart Glasses Are Ushering In An Anti-Social World w/ Chris Gilliard

Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss how tech CEOs are pushing a new generation of AI-powered smart glasses by promising they’ll be stylish and indispensable to workers in a desperate attempt to convince us we should want their luxury surveillance gadgets. Chris Gilliard is the co-director of the Critical Internet Studies Institute and is working on a book called Luxury Surveillance . Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon . The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation . Production is by Kyla Hewson. Also mentioned in this episode: Harvard students used Meta glasses to dox strangers . Apple tinkered with its AI shortly after Trump was inaugurated. AI may start answering 911 calls . Studies are suggesting that AI may be making doctors worse at diagnosing cancer . Rob Horning has written about overreliance on AI . Chris mentioned Emily Bender and her analogy comparing LLMs to plastic .