COMPUTEX 2026 In his Computex keynote speech this week Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon offered a glimpse of an AI-augmented future straight out of an episode of Black Mirror.According to Amon, agents — automated systems which harness AI models to automate complex tasks without the need for human supervision — will fundamentally change humanity’s relationship with technology.“The phone, today, is at the center of your digital life and therefore everything is around the phone,” he said.
But in the not too distant future, Amon argues that agents will take their place. Phones, like wearables, will simply become an extension of the agent.
Imagine your own personal Jarvis accessible from any connected device whether it’s a pair of earbuds, smart glasses, smartphone, or notebook. These devices will be constantly feeding sensor data to an agent. “The agent isn't tied to the device, it actually moves with the user. It’s there with the user, regardless of the device that you have,” he explained. “Once you understand that change, you understand how the whole mobile industry is going to change.”And of course, Amon expects, 6G networks will supercharge these sensing capabilities. “If you have smart glasses, they see what you see, so the connectivity needs to enable a very fast uplink,” he said. “6G is going to make all of us into walking cameras in this world.”Not creepy at all then. It’s no wonder Meta is so keen on making smart glasses a thing. Agentic AI adoption becomes yet another funnel by which data can be used to serve you ads.It doesn’t stop there. If Amon is to be believed, realtime AI analysis of 6G radio waves will allow for even more pervasive prediction models.Each radio connection, he explains, will be like a radar, and by tracking and triangulating hundreds or millions of these connections, network operators will be able to generate a digital twin of your neighborhood, city, and eventually country.
