Surveilling Myself and Others at the Kylie Jenner Meta Glasses Party

The party is too loud for Kylie Jenner to hear me, but if she could, a Meta assistant tells me, she could tell me where the nearest late-night bakery is. We are not talking about the living, breathing Kylie Jenner, who was briefly here in a Tom Ford–era Gucci dress, along with her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, in a cinched-up hoodie, to launch the new Meta smart glasses she designed. We are talking about the virtual Kylie Jenner that lives inside the smart glasses, an AI assistant…