The privacy risks (very nicely outlined herein) are one of the core motivations for the personal assistant system I'm currently building for myself.
That and I really want the hackability I get from a system I fully control (Per-task encrypted secrets? Seamless local models? Cyberdeck integration?)
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I wrote a new post about the privacy risks of on-phone agents like Apple’s new Siri, and how private inference isn’t any sort of silver bullet. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/06/09/a...
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…
