{"id":25442,"date":"2026-10-14T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-eyes-have-it-reform-politicians-smart-glasses-prompt-calls-for-ban-in-westminster\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:37:30","slug":"the-eyes-have-it-reform-politicians-smart-glasses-prompt-calls-for-ban-in-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-eyes-have-it-reform-politicians-smart-glasses-prompt-calls-for-ban-in-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"The eyes have it: Reform politician\u2019s \u2018smart glasses\u2019 prompt calls for ban in Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason O\u2019Connell\u2019s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices<\/p>\n<p>It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics \u2013 but Jason O\u2019Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30mph,\u201d he said as he led the party\u2019s charge to abolish 20mph traffic zones. \u201c\u00a338.3m wasted to implement this policy and up to \u00a38.9bn in an act of economic self-harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/14\/smart-glasses-ai-technology-reform-senedd-westminster-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4c63fd3569598d1424cf7662c053ed995980c8e5\/285_0_1350_1080\/master\/1350.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=37f0eac17e8aa21c3ce4e7ea567d6b56\" title=\"The eyes have it: Reform politician\u2019s \u2018smart glasses\u2019 prompt calls for ban in Westminster\" \/>Jason O\u2019Connell\u2019s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices<br \/>\nIt was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics \u2013 but Jason O\u2019Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes.<br \/>\n\u201cCardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30mph,\u201d he said as he led the party\u2019s charge to abolish 20mph traffic zones. \u201c\u00a338.3m wasted to implement this policy and up to \u00a38.9bn in an act of economic self-harm.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason O\u2019Connell\u2019s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in the Senedd reignites debate over the AI-enabled devices It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics \u2013 but Jason O\u2019Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/14\/the-eyes-have-it-reform-politicians-smart-glasses-prompt-calls-for-ban-in-westminster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The eyes have it: Reform politician\u2019s \u2018smart glasses\u2019 prompt calls for ban in Westminster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}