Comment by Meredith Whittaker

The deeper integration of AI agents into devices is pretty perilous for encrypted services because they require access to huge amounts of data stored in various apps. [...] It threatens to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer by conjoining all of these separate services and muddying their data. If you give a system like that root access permissions, it can be hijacked. Unverified source (2026)