Are face-scanning smart glasses a problem or prophecy?

(l-r) Ardayfio and Nguyen built glasses designed to identify strangers in real-time and demonstrated them on two ‘real people’ at the subway station. The Harvard students’ revamped Meta smart glasses identified people quickly and easily, raising fears about AI's unpredictable risks. — The New York Times

LONDON: Imagine a pair of glasses that could tell you the name and address of anyone you met. Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen made them a reality in just four days.

The students adapted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and computer software to create spectacles utilising existing face recognition technology to identify people in real time, underscoring the potential for augmented reality (AR) in future.