The Verge columnist says Amazon Bee Frontier undermines trust in her memories

The Verge’s Victoria Song writes that the Amazon Bee Frontier, an AI wearable that records conversations and transcribes and summarizes them, has begun affecting her trust in her own memories. After asking for consent to use it during therapy sessions, Song says her therapist eventually recommended that she throw the device out the window.

Song says the device has improved at distinguishing her speech from television dialogue and can now access her calendar and photos app, as well as suggest tasks and purchases. Still, she writes that its summaries often incorrectly assign statements or opinions to her — including a supposed recurring argument with someone she has never met and six cats that are actually nicknames for her two animals. For the columnist, the errors can be funny but become disturbing when they involve serious conversations.