The Beware Index

AI products rated on a danger scale. Privacy, bias, job displacement, autonomy loss, vendor lock-in — all measured, all indexed.

9 products rated · Updated regularly

F

Tesla Autopilot / FSD

by Tesla

A $15,000 promise of self-driving that's killed people and still calls itself 'Full Self-Driving.'

Autonomous high risk Avg: 7.8/10
D

Amazon Alexa

by Amazon

A corporate spy you bought with your own money, placed in your bedroom, and thanked for the weather report.

Surveillance high risk New Avg: 6.6/10
D

ChatGPT

by OpenAI

Knows more about you than your therapist. Reports to a company that wants to be God.

Chatbot high risk New Avg: 7.4/10
D

Google Gemini

by Google

Google already had all your data. Now it has a chatbot that can actually use it.

Chatbot high risk Avg: 7.2/10
D

Workday AI Recruiting

by Workday

The screening layer between you and a billion job applications, with its bias testing sealed under attorney-client privilege.

Enterprise high risk New Avg: 7.2/10
C

Adobe Firefly

by Adobe

Trained on data it actually paid for, which is rarer than it should be. Getting back out of Adobe is the expensive part.

Creative use with-caution New Avg: 5.8/10
C

GitHub Copilot

by Microsoft

Your AI pair programmer that learned to code by reading everyone else's code without asking.

Assistant use with-caution Avg: 5.2/10
C

Perplexity

by Perplexity AI

Cites its sources more carefully than any rival, and is being sued by a remarkable number of them.

Search use with-caution New Avg: 5.4/10
C

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

by Meta / EssilorLuxottica

A camera and microphone worn on your face, wired to Meta. The people around you never agreed to any of it.

Hardware use with-caution New Avg: 5.6/10