Should Mac AI Assistants Show What They Can Touch

Desktop AI assistants cross a line chatbots never did: the demo walks into your junk drawer. Google says Gemini Spark on Mac can organize local files, work across Workspace and connected apps, and eventually run Mac tasks kicked off from your phone. Useful, yes. Also intimate. I don’t want “allow access to files.” I want a preflight card: these folders, these apps, these actions, this time window, this delete rule, this stop button. The repeatable sentence is not “AI organizes your desktop.” It’s: show me what you’re about to touch.