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Siri AI will not get real chatbots until Apple can secure them

John Ternus has said that Apple wants Siri AI to offer agentic AI tools, but not until it can be sure users truly understand what the risks are.

Smartphone screen showing a smiling man in a video call, with a large circular button at the bottom center and two smaller chat and photo icons on either side
John Ternus is definitely on board with adding agentic tools to Siri AI – image background credit: Apple.

The world’s first real exposure to AI came with OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT. When many other firms then released their own chatbots, Apple was regarded as being behind on AI because it didn’t have one.

Today AI, at least for the aficionados Apple’s Greg Joswiak calls the “lunatic fringe,” technology has moved on. Agentic AI is arguably the buzzword now, with AI tools able to take action on users’ computers to, for instance, send messages or build apps.

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