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📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and

Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it can be next to impossible to tell whose spectacles are watching back. And with facial recognition capabilities on the horizon, there’s a compelling argument to be made for less-than-passive resistance to the sleazy new devices.

Enter Yves Jeanrenaud, the chair of sociology and gender studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich who moonlights as a hobbyist software developer. His first app is Nearby Glasses, a free and open source program for detecting smart glasses in your vicinity.

According to the projects’ Github page, the app won’t pinpoint the exact user or their precise location, but it should give you a “good chance to spot that smart glasses wearing person.” Outdoors, the app works within 32 to 50 feet; indoors in crowds, that drops to 10 to 32 feet — enough range to identify a person wearing smart glasses in your vicinity.

In an email, Jeanrenaud told Futurism that while his academic work on gender dynamics made him wary of smart glasses from the start, much of his revulsion came down to plain old common sense.

“Covert recording is a lot about power. So, I was worried from the very beginning when Meta announced they were going to revive the Google Glass idea,” Jeanrenaud said. “That might be influenced by my study subject very well, but it might as well be influenced by every report and story I read on digital abuse and hate speech in the last twenty to thirty years.”

Jeanrenaud says he’s been tinkering around with various programming languages for a few decades, but caveats that he “never headed for a study program or an IT career. “Regardless, it was enough to come up with a working proof-of-concept.”

Nearby Glasses works by flagging Bluetooth SIG assigned numbers, unique alphanumeric codes identifying devices based on their brand. Assigned numbers are mandatory for devices utilizing Bluetooth, meaning that gear made by companies like Luxottica Group SpA — the firm manufacturing Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses — is at least somewhat identifiable for anyone who knows where to look.

There are limitations to this method of detection. For starters, as the codes are mapped to the companies themselves, one could receive a false-positive if the manufacturer also makes other electronic products. Meta, for example, also makes VR headsets, and it’s possible the app will misidentify those as smart glasses (though that particular error should be rather obvious.)

“If you can’t see someone wearing an Oculus Rift around you and there are no buildings where they could hide, chances are good that it’s smart glasses instead,” Jeanrenaud wrote on the app’s Github page. While it’s also possible to detect the product name if someone ever initiates Bluetooth pairing in public, “it’s rare we will see that in the field.”

For the time being, Nearby Glasses is still in its early days. It’s only available on Android devices, and though it has worked in tests, Jeanrenaud has “no knowledge so far of people using the app on the streets.”

“It’s still very imperfect,” Jeanrenaud told Futurism. “It took me about four hours for the first prototype and about eight more for the first viable release.”

Still, Nearby Glasses is a fascinating glimpse at the grassroots pushback against big tech’s smart glasses rollout: the kind of scrappy solution that emerges when even the most basic regulations seem like a fantasy.

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📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Proble

Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance, and other white collar workers potentially losing their jobs to AI. But mass job destruction would end up being bad for virtually everyone who actually has to work for a living, not just overpaid office drones.

That’s according to one of the authors of a new report from Citrini Research that recently sent quivers of fear through the stock market for imagining a mass unemployment scenario caused by AI.

“Let’s say in our scenario, we talk about five percent of folks might get fired in a couple of years,” coauthor Alap Shah, CEO of Littlebird.ai, said on the podcast, as quoted by Business Insider. “Those five percent, if there aren’t white collar jobs for them to relocate into, then they’re going to have to move into the gig economy and the blue collar labor force.”

“And so that puts pressure on the entire labor market, not just the white collar one,” Shah added.

The Citrini report, published Sunday, imagines a hypothetical 2028 in which productivity advances enabled by powerful AI models outmode vast portions of the job market. That’s all fine with Wall Street, since the part that really had investors spooked was the paper’s prediction that this would also dry up consumer spending, cause a global stock sell-off, and collapse even dependable money-makers like the S&P 500. Shares in the Nasdaq Composite index fell by more than one percent on Monday, Bloomberg reported, as the gloomy paper went viral in investor and AI circles.

The paper’s certainly in tune with what plenty of figures in the AI industry have been warning about. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has consistently cautioned that the tech is poised to destroy entire categories of work. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has proclaimed that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs. More recently, Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted that virtually all office tasks will be automated within 18 months.

As real as the threat of jobs destruction may be, however, the Citrini paper has been criticized by economists for being a little far-fetched.

“I would take it seriously, not literally,” Nick Ferres, CIO at Vantage Point Asset Management, told Reuters.

Krishan Guha at Evercore ISI said the paper relied on “extreme and improbable conditions” and argued that blue collar workers would actually stand to gain somewhat from the white collar layoffs. 

“Although some of these workers would suffer from the drop in the demand from white collar workers, and/or from competition from newly displaced white collar, others with discrete skills would in effect be complements to AI, and their activities would be in greater demand as collapsing cost of AI-led tasks increased the desired volume of consumption of these products,” Guha wrote in an note, as quoted by the Financial Times. “Because their productivity would not rise anything like as rapidly as AI-led productivity in cognitive tasks, these blue collar workers would see large relative wage gains. And they certainly would consume.”

To some extent, AI-related layoffs are very likely already happening, with one report finding that AI was cited in the announcements of more than 54,000 layoffs last year. Yet these could end up being examples of “AI washing” — job cuts motivated for purely financial reasons, and not because of the tech’s actual capabilities. AI, in other words, may simply provide a convenient excuse.

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