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Gemini Wants the Keys to Your Mac. We've Seen This Movie Before.

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Google is reportedly testing a mode for Gemini Desktop on macOS that skips the confirmation dialog entirely. Read, write, modify, delete any file. Poke around in Mail and Messages. No per-action approval. That's not an AI assistant anymore, that's a user account with no judgment and no accountabili…

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  1. 2026-10-05 03:14 · DEV Community — AI
    Gemini Wants the Keys to Your Mac. We've Seen This Movie Before.

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