'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices

[highplainsdem]

From UK tech magazine The Register yesterday, about Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon's keynote speech at COMPUTEX 2026.

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/02/qualcomm-ai-agents-will-be-as-transparent-as-they-will-be-inescapable/5249894

-snip-

“If you have smart glasses, they see what you see, so the connectivity needs to enable a very fast uplink,” he said. “6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras in this world.”

-snip-

It doesn’t stop there. If Amon is to be believed, realtime AI analysis of 6G radio waves will allow for even more pervasive prediction models.

Each radio connection, he explains, will be like a radar, and by tracking and triangulating hundreds or millions of these connections, network operators will be able to generate a digital twin of your neighborhood, city, and eventually country.

“You're going to detect on every road, every car, every bicycle, every truck, every pedestrian,” he explained. “You can actually identify those objects.”

-snip-

The next paragraph has his "Resistance is futile" remark.

[-misanthroptimist]

1. Well...

...futile as long as there is electricity. I can walk maybe ten minutes from where I'm sitting and disappear to anything electronic. Hell, I barely get a cell signal here at home.

These guys have no concept of the real world. One Carrington Event and we'll see millions of nervous breakdowns. And there will be another Carrington Event at some point.

[hatrack]

2. Or maybe his marks, er, customers will refuse to buy "smart glasses", and refrain from using AI . . .

They might even vote out government officials who shovel tax dollars to those vital, vital AI data centers. They might avoid "smart" appliances and switch back to flip phones and tell this Qualcomm clown and his tech-bro ilk to go and fuck themselves.

[-misanthroptimist]

3. That'll work, too.

I mean, it won't provide the sizzle of these clowns melting down that a Carrington Event would, but it's much easier on the rest of us.

[hatrack]

4. In 1859, there was exactly one important service that depended on electricity . . .

And even telegraphy, though certainly useful, was an expensive novelty.

Today, it would be far simpler to find a single important service that didn't depend on electricity.

[-misanthroptimist]

5. Long term planning is just one...

...of capitalism's many, many weaknesses.

[PatSeg]

9. That's for sure

My daughter and I often comment on the inability to see the big picture. There is so much emphasis on short term profits and CEO payouts.

[lame54]

12. That won't happen...

People love their gadgets and constantly want new ones

[Prairie_Seagull]

6. Resistance is not futile.

They just want us to believe it is.

[hatrack]

7. And as long as we're talking tech-bro fantasies . . .

A wonderfully dry demolition of the ketamine hallucination that is the SpaceX IPO.

[highplainsdem]

11. I agree. I'm not going to fall for their propaganda. And I'll do all I can to make others aware of

why we shouldn't fall for it.

[Prairie_Seagull]

14. I know you will.

You have a proven track record. I follow you (if we have something like that) haha

[durablend]

8. And make a wrong move

"And we erase you from existence"

[eShirl]

10. did he cackle and wring his hands?

or maybe he twirled his moustache

[highplainsdem]

13. Sounding like the Borg worked well enough to show he's a crazy villain, so the Register's headline

nailed him. They used the word "creepy" at one point as well.

[hatrack]

17. It only works with the proper soundtrack . . .

&list=RDT1cF8XtEbn0&start_radio=1

[quaker bill]

15. Leave the devices at home

Turn them off and leave them home. You can have a presence that devices cannot track.

[highplainsdem]

18. What that idiot CEO is talking about is everyone being recorded by everyone else's devices, with

smart glasses and similar devices using facial recognition, so the tech lords will be constantly gathering as much info as possible on everyone, wherever they are and whatever they're doing.

https://www.engadget.com/2184224/meta-developing-ai-pendant-more-smart-glass-models/

And the tech companies will have all that data to sell to advertisers, or the government.

[quaker bill]

19. There is a massive difference between

data and information. Huge amounts of data can cloud the development of information and insight.

[Intractable]

16. F*ck that misuse of a Star Trek quote.

I, for one, will not be assimilated.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. "AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices"

Does that also mean ads following you down the sidewalk?