An AI robot in my home (allevato.me) AI

A homeowner describes installing “Mabu,” a door-adjacent AI robot whose voice and actions are driven by an OpenAI-based chatbot, and then working through his unease about the risks. He raises privacy and security concerns common to smart speakers (criminal misuse of recordings, hacking, and data misuse), plus added worry for open-ended LLM conversations involving children. Because the robot is embodied, and because a mobile, connected machine could potentially cause physical harm if compromised, he keeps Mabu in a limited location and records only under tight controls, while anticipating that his concerns may grow as the technology matures.