Critical reflections on wearable AI — a complete archive of field notes.
Between May and July 2026 I wore AI glasses as part of everyday life and wrote up what happened: what the technology actually did, how other people responded to it, and what it suggests about privacy, surveillance, consent, and the future of learning. The project has now concluded, and the field notes have been synthesised into a longer paper.
The posts below are kept here in full, in reverse order.
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#07 – Lazy Sci-Fi Toys
I had a productive conversation with the glasses. There’s a sentence you don’t hear too often. This post is a summary of that conversation, rather than a clear document of how I’ve been using them. Carried away with the idea of AI as a reflection…
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#06 – We’re not ready…again
A few times in the past I have pulled the ‘we’re not ready for…’ card, including when we wrote about deepfakes in education back in 2024 (see here and here). Largely, that has turned out to be true so far – but it has been…
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#05 – Why won’t you argue back?
I have been engaging with the glasses as much as possible, following my rules, and trying to really see if there is something to offer above and beyond just dictating messages to ChatGPT on my phone. The problem is, the more I try to probe…
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#04 – No, there’s no screen. I’m disappointed too.
I have been wearing the glasses for a week or two, and my world has not changed dramatically. One or two friends who are aware of the experiment have commented on them, but otherwise they appear to fly under the radar. From a privacy and…
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#03 – Let’s Get Ethical
Whenever someone mentions the word ethics, my mind immediately starts playing this song from Season 5 of The Office (U.S.). It turns out that TV and film references are going to be quite a large part of this project. Anyway, I hope that now this…
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#03 – The Distance Between Questions & Answers
Studies have found that children can ask up to 107 questions per hour. As a parent, I have first hand-experience of this. While researching this post, I found a monograph on children’s questions and cognitive development. The below quote stuck out: “Together, the results of…
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#02 – Unboxing day
Human in the loop means having a ‘person’ involved in an AI system, checking the content, validating what’s being designated as corrected. It occurred to me that I am about to enter into this loop. I will no longer be walking around a lone bag…
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#01 – Hello, world (again)
Graham’s number is the name for a number so large that it cannot be represented in the observable universe. Apparently, Rayo’s number is even larger than this. Jasper’s number, which I invented just now, is the specific number of blogs a millenial has started and…