Visual Intelligence Is Useful, but Your Camera Is Now an AI Input Surface

The camera is no longer just a camera.With Visual Intelligence and Siri AI, the camera becomes an AI input surface.That is not automatically bad. In fact, it could be incredibly useful. Apple says Siri AI includes Visual Intelligence across platforms, and Apple Intelligence powers richer accessibility features where users can ask questions about their surroundings and receive detailed responses. The same broader direction shows up across image understanding, on-screen awareness, and camera-based assistance.But once an AI assistant can understand what the camera sees, the physical world becomes part of the prompt surface.That is a security shift worth talking about.Visual input is still inputSecurity people are used to thinking about text input. Search boxes, forms, command lines, URLs, email bodies, file names, and API parameters all get treated as input that can be manipulated.Visual Intelligence expands that mental model.An image can contain text. A sign can contain instructions. A…