Roy: Major backlash against public AI recording will emerge in 2026
Ranjan Roy · AI & Tech 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom · Dec 29, 2025 · at 6:01
Ranjan Roy and Alex Kantrowitz discuss 2026 tech predictions on the Big Technology Podcast, examining social friction surrounding smart glasses and meeting transcription tools.
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“I think there's going to be major scandals and discomfort around recording or transcribing in public. And what I mean here is I've already started to see, I think I saw there's reporting that like on a, one of the cruise lines is banning meta Ray-Bans. Everyone who uses tools like granola or other call transcription, like, In 2025, everyone just kind of let it go as every word you're saying and everything you're doing around, like when you hold out a phone and record someone in public, they mostly know that you're doing that. Those kind of more subtle ways of kind of recording activity of people have been increasing in 2025 because AI is so good at actually making sense of it. I think there's going to be some major Controversy, backlash around people, and I think it's going to be, inform the whole world of AI devices that Sam and OpenAI and everyone else is talking about.”
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