I’ve been thinking about this from a slightly different angle than the usual ““would you personally use it”” framing. For something like screen-aware AI to become a mainstream productivity category used by millions of people the way ChatGPT did, what infrastructure would need to exist first? My rough list: on-device processing as the default, not the $20/month premium option. Explicit OS-level permission flows that users understand, not buried in settings they never read. A visual indicator that’s impossible to miss when the feature is active. Per-app blacklists baked into the permission system at the OS level, not into individual apps that each implement it differently. Some kind of verification layer for data handling claims that goes beyond a privacy policy document. Some of these already exist in nascent form. macOS screen recording permissions are already a thing. Apple’s private cloud compute work is heading toward better on-device guarantees. The question is whether those existing primitives are enough scaffolding, or whether screen-aware AI would need something new that doesn’t exist yet. I’m less interested in the specific apps and more interested in the systemic question: what does the trust infrastructure gap look like, and what closes it? submitted by /u/Acrobatic_Cow_1476
Originally posted by u/Acrobatic_Cow_1476 on r/ArtificialInteligence