Therapist asks patient to discard always-recording AI wearable
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The Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song wore the always-recording AI wearable Amazon Bee Frontier for three consecutive weeks while receiving therapy, and in the third week her therapist asked her to throw the device out the window. The report does not explain the therapist's specific reasons for making this request, nor does it mention any response from Amazon.
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In this Optimizer newsletter, Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song recounts three weeks of wearing the always-recording Amazon Bee AI wearable, including therapy and medical appointments, and describes its transcripts and summaries misremembering conversations, inventing six extra cats, and generating blunt summaries of a childhood trauma. Her therapist argued such a device supersedes a person's ability to trust their own instincts and suggested she throw it out a window. Song also criticizes Bee's Grow feature for judging her hobbies as lacking "shareable output."
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