**Please Don't Hack Your Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to Buy Things for You**

Imagine walking down the street with your sleek new Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses perched on your face. With their advanced computer vision capabilities, you can translate menus in foreign languages or identify brands of shoes people are wearing. But now, a developer has taken things a step further - literally.

Xiaoan (Sean) Liu, a developer with a flair for innovation, has demonstrated how to use his Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses to buy products online using computer vision. Using a combination of Gemini Live and OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, Liu's hack can identify a Monster Energy drink and automatically add it to an Amazon shopping cart.

The demo is undeniably impressive, and one can almost imagine the convenience of being able to buy something on the fly while wearing your smart glasses. But before you get too excited about the possibilities, there are some serious concerns that need to be addressed.

Liu outlined the process on GitHub, making it theoretically possible for anyone to set up this hack themselves. However, we strongly advise against it. The security risks associated with giving an AI agent like OpenClaw access to your sensitive personal data are substantial. As author Vishal Rajput notes in his Medium post, tools like OpenClaw constitute a "lethal trifecta" of security risks.

For those who don't want to delve into the technical details, here's the gist: OpenClaw can gain access to your device's most sensitive data, including root files, passwords, browser history, and cookies. It retains a memory of all the data it sees and can theoretically send that data anywhere. And if that weren't enough, OpenClaw could also be compromised to deploy malicious code on any device it has access to.

We're no security experts, but even we think that's pretty bad. While Liu's demonstration is an interesting example of what AI-powered smart glasses could do for us if built with safety and security in mind, the risks associated with OpenClaw are too great to ignore.

So, should you go ahead and set up this hack just to buy an energy drink with your smart glasses? We wouldn't recommend it. Instead, let's focus on exploring the possibilities of AI-powered smart glasses responsibly and safely. Liu's demo raises important questions about how much of our lives we're willing to concede to AI agents that feel like they were invented just yesterday.

As we move forward with the development of AI agents, we need to consider the potential consequences of putting too much power in their hands. Are we willing to give them access to every door in our digital lives? The answer is unclear, but one thing's for sure: we need to be cautious and think carefully about the implications of these technologies before they become mainstream.