Are you annoyed while surfing by annoying pop-ups asking for permissions? In Google Chrome, AI may soon handle this for you.
While browsing, you are constantly bombarded with pop-ups from websites asking permission to your camera, microphone, location or notifications. Not only annoying, but sometimes browser pop-ups pose serious security risks if malware lurks behind them. Google Chrome wants to solve this by letting AI handle those pop-ups for you.
Google is testing a new feature Permissions AI in Chrome’s Canary channel. As the name suggests, this is an AI feature that specializes in processing pop-up windows for permissions. The feature is built on Google’s Permission Predictions Service and the Gemini Nano v2 model.
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PermissionsAI analyzes your browsing behavior to learn how you typically complete pop-up windows and uses that data to predict the likelihood that you will/will not give permission. If you resolutely never give permission to your camera or location, PermissionsAI won’t give it either. Pop-ups will be much less intrusive while browsing as a result. To enable the feature, you need to turn on Safe Browsing mode in Chrome.
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For now, the PermissionsAI feature is only available through the Canary channel in Chrome, where Google is testing out experimental features for the browser. Google is not showing in the cards when it will roll out the feature more broadly. For now, you’ll have to handle the pop-ups yourself. Check regularly in Chrome settings, or your regular browser, what permissions you have granted to websites and be critical of whether they need them.
Google is not holding back when it comes to rolling out AI features to more users and is throwing all its platforms into the fray to do so. The Gemini package is now included by default in paid Workspace subscriptions. Google has invested heavily in developing AI applications and wants those investments to pay off. That can only happen if enough people use those features.