Good Morning Karen. Cool or Scary?

Last month I spoke at a telecommunications industry event. The briefer before me showed a video by the Hypervoice Consortium, titled Introducing Human Technology: Communications 2025. It consists of a voiceover by a 2025-era Siri-like assistant, speaking to her owner, "Karen." The assistant describes what's happening with Karen's household. 15 seconds into the video, the assistant says:

The report is due today. I've cleared your schedule so you can focus. Any attempt to override me will be politely rebuffed.

I was already feeling uncomfortable with the scenario, but that is the point at which I really started to squirm. I'll leave it to you to watch the rest of the video and report how you feel about it.

My general conclusion was that I'm wary of putting so much trust in a platform that is likely to be targeted by intruders, such that they can manipulate so many aspects of a person's life. What do you think?

By the way, the briefer before me noted that every vision of the future appears to involve solving the "low on milk problem."

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