Would You Trust An AI Wearable To Reveal Your Personal Blind Spots? Lyle Maxson Interview
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Why does Lyle Maxson believe AI wearables should focus on self‑awareness instead of productivity?
Their number one use case was was as a life coach or a therapist. Right now, all of humanity's energy is being focused on creating the frontal lobe, the productivity, the doing, the moving forward. But the limbic system that's in charge of love and connection, that part of the AI brain is is completely neglected. I mean, it it comes back to my bigger mission, which I call creating benevolent technology. And in in my mind, that means building technology. Not just for productivity or convenience, but actually building it to help us become more connected, more empathetic, and you know, happier humans. I've been scheduling specific calls that with my team right after a more intense calls with my engineers.
And I would bring that kind of harsh analytical perspective into a more like free-flowing philosophical. you know, let's throw up a bunch of ideas on the wall. And that was lending to me being impatient, me being really um uh short with employees. It's this fine line between like, is this a surveillance thing for employers or is this actually supposed to create better outcomes with their teams? I do think that there is this middle path. And this middle path for me is really around how do we live in harmony with technology. So if uh you were to ask me to zoom all the way out, I would say that I see a future where these realities exist simultaneously. Yeah we have
Lyle Maxson today here off above, and it's the first time we have someone here who has a variable, an AI variable that records what you say. So, really interesting what you can take away of everything you say, how you can optimize yourself. And uh yeah, I don't want to take away too much of the attention. First of all, welcome to another episode of the Beginner's Guide to AI. It's Dietmar here from Argo Berlin, your digital marketing agency. Don't forget to go to beginnersguide2.ai. To subscribe to the podcast and um never miss an episode. Also go to AI for the 99%, my other podcast with tips and tricks, where you get help if you are a smaller company, one of the 99% of the companies in the country.
And now let's just jump right into the interview with Lyle.
Yeah, I can tell you a lot about Lyle Maxon, but the best thing is he tells you something about himself. But first of all, Lyle, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here. Great. Um AI. What actually did interest you in AI? Um like a a a kind of kind of peak view you came from the way we are field, but did you do AI before? What's about AI? What's so fascinating about AI for you?
Yeah, I mean I'm I'm always fascinated by the frontiers of technology, specifically and how it could help us become better human beings. And and the promise of AI for me is that it's so hyper personalized and individualized that it really allows for, you know, every industry to blossom into um yeah, something very specific, very targeted, and um you're really addressing us as our unique Individual selves. Um, but I came about AI in a roundabout way. Um, yeah, I was my first tech company was actually a video game publishing studio called Andromeda, and uh we did something called Games for Good. So we were either publishing and bringing to market other creators' games, or we were actually building them in-house, and these games were focused on creating.
Creating a positive mind-body effect. So anything related to physical fitness, mental health, e for everyone types of titles. And through that process, of course, VR and AI have really gone hand in hand. I've seen it from the beginning, whether it's like MPC-related things with the characters you're interacting with or
How did Lyle’s background in gaming and VR lead to the creation of the Above AI wearable?
Procedurally generated levels, and um, you know, it's I think every sci-fi movie basically lends it all the way to AI and VR and virtual worlds combining, and then you know, the the top blows off. Um, but we were developing an experience in-house at this publishing studio called Sound Self, which is a voice-activated biofeedback meditation experience that initially we Designed inside of a virtual reality headset.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why does Lyle Maxson believe AI wearables should focus on self‑awareness instead of productivity?
0:00–4:19
2
How did Lyle’s background in gaming and VR lead to the creation of the Above AI wearable?
4:19–15:24
3
What is the “AI mirror” and how does it reveal personal blind spots and communication patterns?
15:24–27:20
4
How does Above protect user privacy and handle consent for recorded conversations?
27:20–41:41
5
Can AI wearables be used in the workplace without becoming surveillance tools?
41:41–58:07
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What insights can voice analysis provide for health, emotions, and even medical diagnostics?
58:07–58:32
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