Concerns about phones coming with AI hardware and choosing a phone in 2025?

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NPUs don’t break encryption. It’s a nonsensical conspiracy theory spread by Braxman

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The Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS is a fine phone.
They can be purchased in store just make sure it’s carrier unlocked.
The bootloader needs to be unlocked to install GOS.
Relocking the bootloader without wiping the phone is the important bit which the Pixel line allows.
GrapheneOS contains to bloat. Rooting a phone breaks it’s security.
I’ve heard microG sends a ton of data to Google. I have no first hand knowledge of this.

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NPUs are just hardware that’s good at doing calculations useful for machine learning similar to GPUs for graphics. They aren’t backdoors and they can’t be used to break encryption or anything, it’s just there to make ML stuff run better. There’s no privacy implications to be worried about.

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AI ≠ bad.
Crypto ≠ bad.

NPUs make local AI possible, so unless one prefers sending everything to the cloud, NPUs are good.

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This isn’t the place to spread unfounded conspiracies about backdoors. You provide no source for your claims and your post is only seeking validation for your misinformed beliefs.

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