My therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a window

In this Optimizer newsletter, Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song recounts her three-week experiment wearing the Amazon Bee Frontier, an always-recording AI wearable that transcribes and summarizes conversations. While the device has improved at distinguishing speech from TV dialogue and helped with job-related talking points, it frequently misinterprets conversations, inventing arguments with a coworker's spouse she's never met, additional cat names, and false claims about family members. The most disturbing incident occurred during a therapy session where Bee generated a stark summary of a childhood domestic violence event, making her question her own memory and perception of the session as cathartic. Her therapist explained that such devices can undermine a person's trust in their own instincts and exacerbate rumination and anxiety, ultimately suggesting she throw the device out the window. Song concludes that the most important takeaway—that they'd both feel relieved when she stops wearing Bee to sessions—was not captured in Bee's suggested to-do list, which instead reminded her to buy nail glue on Amazon.

(Source：The Verge)