[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.