TVs as Ambient AI Hubs

Manufacturers are turning televisions into always‑on, agentic platforms that interpose generative content, real‑time overlays, and per‑user personalization over core viewing, shrinking primary content to make room for AI UIs. Those design defaults shift attention, normalize ambient sensing and biometric recognition in the living room, and create new vectors for data harvesting and platform lock‑in. — If TVs become ambient AI hubs, regulators, privacy advocates, and competition authorities must address a new front where hardware vendors unilaterally change the public living‑room information environment and monetize intimate household interactions.