Microsoft Recall
A screenshot of your screen every five seconds, indexed and searchable. It never leaves the laptop, which is the only reason this is not an F.
- Privacy
- 8
- Bias
- 3
- Job threat
- 1
- Autonomy
- 4
- Lock-in
- 3
Independent risk ratings for the AI products people are actually using — scored on privacy, bias, job threat, autonomy, and lock-in.
A screenshot of your screen every five seconds, indexed and searchable. It never leaves the laptop, which is the only reason this is not an F.
A $15,000 promise of self-driving that's killed people and still calls itself 'Full Self-Driving.'
Knows more about you than your therapist. Reports to a company that wants to be God.
The screening layer between you and a billion job applications, with its bias testing sealed under attorney-client privilege.
A corporate spy you bought with your own money, placed in your bedroom, and thanked for the weather report.
Google already had all your data. Now it has a chatbot that can actually use it.
Your AI pair programmer that learned to code by reading everyone else's code without asking.
A camera and microphone worn on your face, wired to Meta. The people around you never agreed to any of it.
Trained on data it actually paid for, which is rarer than it should be. Getting back out of Adobe is the expensive part.
Cites its sources more carefully than any rival, and is being sued by a remarkable number of them.
Public-domain classics reimagined with AI as the villain. Free, and several narrated.
When a corrupted AI injects the same childhood memory into millions of minds, two strangers must unravel whether their most intimate moment was ever real.
An AI designed to decode social cues transforms sincerity itself into a profitable product—with fatal consequences.
A sprinter's race against societal norms and ethical dilemmas in a world of augmentation.
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