[Opinion. Who’s your Daddy? Looks like it will be billionaires. 1984 is finally here. Frankly, I’m glad I won’t like to see it. Turn me into Soylent Green.]

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO

AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

Tobias Mann

The Register: 02 Jun 2026

In his Computex keynote speech this week Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon offered a glimpse of an AI-augmented future straight out of an episode of Black Mirror.

According to Amon, agents — automated systems which harness AI models to automate complex tasks without the need for human supervision — will fundamentally change humanity’s relationship with technology.

“The phone, today, is at the center of your digital life and therefore everything is around the phone,” he said.

But in the not too distant future, Amon argues that agents will take their place. Phones, like wearables, will simply become an extension of the agent. 

Your devices will be constantly feeding sensor data to an agent. 

“6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras in this world.”

Not creepy at all then. It’s no wonder Meta is so keen on making smart glasses a thing. Agentic AI adoption becomes yet another funnel by which data can be used to serve you ads.

It doesn’t stop there. If Amon is to be believed, realtime AI analysis of 6G radio waves will allow for even more pervasive prediction models.

“You're going to detect on every road, every car, every bicycle, every truck, every pedestrian,” he explained. “You can actually identify those objects.”

Last we checked, Google’s business model revolves around turning telemetry gathered from your digital life into targeted advertising.

48 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

n his Computex keynote speech this week Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon offered a glimpse of an AI-augmented future straight out of an episode of Black Mirror.

It can only happen if enough people embrace the AI model ..at the moment they seem to

see it as a good thing but I'm hopeful that as more and more downsides are realised things will swing back the other way and we can avoid the digital panopticon 'they' have planed for us.

we can only hope that it's not already too late.

I am frequently accused here of generating my posts by AI. I wish! Each one is painstaking curated.

Does anyone here have a smart home device? (You do know, it records all your conversations, right?) Have you every written anything with AI? Used it to reply to mail?

No judgment. Judgment day for humans has aleady arrived. Just curious. If so, are you happy to have AI in your life?

The Borg said the same thing, and we know what happened to them.

17 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I am frequently accused here of generating my posts by AI. I wish! Each one is painstaking curated.

Does anyone here have a smart home device? (You do know, it records all your conversations, right?) Have you every written anything with AI? Used it to reply to mail?

No judgment. Judgment day for humans has aleady arrived. Just curious. If so, are you happy to have AI in your life?

Lots of smart devices and I don't care. Nothing to hide and not too interesting I guess. I do wish the devices knew more and were as good as the same devices in America. AI is rolling out here at a snails pace in regards to non pc or mobile devices. My smart speakers (Google nest speakers ) are not AI enabled which is frustrating.

People seem to think here on this forum that AI is primarily used to create inauthentic content. I have used it to create content for me. For example, have used it to create a letter to a private hospital after I fed it all my medical history over the last 15 years which was substantial. It spit out a perfect letter with all the tests I needed and why in about 30 seconds. It would have taken me hours! I saved this role that AI was playing and attached medical history for future use. By far the best doctor I've ever had and it isn't even close.

Mostly I use AI to deep dive into things that interest me. It usually delivers and I learn much in the process because AI follows what is popular but is willing and ready to adjust its opinion if given good arguments.

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Clever people like Paul Allen lost hundreds of millions

In the dot com bust .Murdoch waded in at the

end and also lost his shirt.

Excuse my skepticism !

3 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

Clever people like Paul Allen lost hundreds of millions

In the dot com bust .Murdoch waded in at the

end and also lost his shirt.

Excuse my skepticism !

I agree and wouldn't invest a dime in AI at the current multiple. This isn't about making money for most of us. Like the internet there are huge advantages of using AI. Just look at what it can do with medical images vs specialists. In 1 minute it can catch things that would take a 1000 specialists to replicate.

Remember, it’s your government you need to be afraid of.

20 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

I am frequently accused here of generating my posts by AI. I wish! Each one is painstaking curated.

Does anyone here have a smart home device? (You do know, it records all your conversations, right?) Have you every written anything with AI? Used it to reply to mail?

No judgment. Judgment day for humans has aleady arrived. Just curious. If so, are you happy to have AI in your life?

Include in that any car in which you ride.

Any vehicle manufactured after ~2018 records every noise, every conversation inside the vehicle, and sends it back to the manufacturer. China started that, and all the data goes to the MSS for monitoring. German makers followed, ostensibly to measure "customer satisfaction". Then everyone did it.

12 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Remember, it’s your government you need to be afraid of.

Are you afraid of the current UK Labour Government ?

21 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Are you afraid of the current UK Labour Government ?

Replace 'govt' with 'system'. The system's rigged against us...and always has been.

7 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Replace 'govt' with 'system'. The system's rigged against us...and always has been.

In what way is the system "rigged against us "?

40 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Are you afraid of the current UK Labour Government ?

Not in the least.

57 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Include in that any car in which you ride.

Not in my car...but you are correct that all the new cars are monitoring , surveiling and reporting everything

but dont mention that in the EV vehicles thread on here or you'll be accused of

"polluting the thread" with conspiracy nonsense...the EV evangelist's have nothing to hide and seem to welcome the digital panopticon with open (wallets) arms.