Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Should Meta's 'intrusive' smart glasses be banned? · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

the glasses were actually recording, you just wouldn't see the light.

I mean you have long hair, so presumably you could flick your hair away.

Okay.

Now legally, um where do these glasses uh fit in?

Because let's say somebody goes to court, you're not allowed in Ireland to record uh court proceedings.

So let's say somebody goes to court wearing a pair of these glasses and records uh a court session.

Uh legally, where do they stand?

Which is Irish outlets.

Yeah.

You can see the benefits all all right, particularly as you said, for people who are vision impaired.

What's Meta saying about the concerns that have been raised about these glasses?

Okay.

Elsewhere we met uh Mark Zuckerberg uh this week published a manifesto on AI and he seems to favor open source AI rather than the closed models that a lot of the operators have have opted for.

And he's also calling for more oversight of AI models.

Yeah.

Okay, if it goes up in season though, I I guess there are cyber security phrases.

You mentioned Claude and uh Mythos have shown autonomous uh capabilities and they've been able to break out of their frameworks.

So that could be a bit worrying.

Um in a separate development area, uh data centers are uh the talk of the town, if you like, uh in terms of their drag on uh electricity networks and on water supplies uh and so forth, e despite the fact that obviously

Obviously, let's face it, they're powering all of our everyday needs uh in terms of technology.

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