Ethan Mollick: Remote Personal AIs Will Erode the Value of On-Phone Assistants Like Siri
emollick · x · 2026-09-14
- AI researcher Ethan Mollick argues that once remote connections to "your" Claude, Astra, Claw or similar personal AIs become easy and common, on-phone assistants like Siri will lose much of their value.
- His reasoning: users want one smart AI managing everything with visibility into many systems and preferences, not a limited local assistant — signaling that the assistant battleground is shifting from on-device to cloud-based personal agents.
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