CES 2025 | Lenovo AI Display will warn users of bad posture, fatigue, and more at the cost of privacy
Whether we like it or not, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a ubiquitous part of our routines, intruding into nearly every aspect of our tech-driven lives, much to the annoyance of a sizeable portion of privacy-focussed individuals. That said, some of the modern AI is quite beneficial and positive, but others are not so advantageous. Lenovo's latest attempt at integrating AI into consumer products, particularly displays, straddles this line, offering both intriguing potential as well as Microsoft Recall-level privacy torments at the same time.
Lenovo's "AI Display" is essentially still at the proof of concept stage. The project aims to incorporate AI into monitors, which will enable them to track and monitor user posture, movements, and a bunch of further insights which will then be utilized to warn the user of poor posture, and then tilt, swivel, or adjust its height by itself to meet ergonomic standards. Moreover, the monitor will also be able to detect potential fatigue - such as when the user yawns or closes their eyes - and even blur the screen when the user walks away. Pretty neat, right? Not so fast.
Even though all of this appears impressively futuristic at first glance, it will be a dauntingly difficult task to convince users to be comfortable with an AI-enabled front camera tracking their every move. It's not clear if the behind-the-scenes processing will be done on-device, or utilize the cloud. If it turns out to be the latter, it will undoubtedly be a monumental privacy nightmare. Either way, the exact details of this product and how it functions are still murky, but we will find out with time if and when the project exits the proof of concept stage.
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