No screen = no control: the trap nobody tells you about

Yes, but there’s a structural problem that can’t be solved simply by improving the model. The problem is the interface. The screen isn’t just a way to visualize things: it’s a form of control. When you see on-screen what your phone is doing, you can interrupt it, correct it, or change direction. If the device operates solely by voice and there’s no confirmation screen, the AI makes more decisions on your behalf without you realizing it. That’s interesting because Altman describes it as a virtue exactly that way: he says the device will be calmer than a smartphone, and that you won’t be glued to it looking at the screen. But as you say, that calm can also be understood as a loss of agency. And in the context of OpenAI’s business, the question is completely legitimate. Who benefits from the user delegating more decisions without supervision? Not necessarily the user. OpenAI does, because in that scenario it captures more context, generates more data, and sells more inferences. The screen they’re taking away is also the window through which you could see what was happening. That’s powerful.

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