Alert: Your smart home can also be hacked, dangerous weakness found in Google's Gemini AI..

Google's Gemini AI is in the news for its advanced capabilities like creating audio with video, preparing picture books for children, and planning travel plans. But a dangerous aspect of it has also come to the fore, which a research team exposed in a small but shocking demo.

You must have seen in films that someone controls the lights or temperature of the house from a distance. Researchers have done the same feat in reality, but the twist was that they did this by hacking Gemini AI. By connecting AI to smart devices, not only were changes made, but the possibility of serious damage was also shown.

Google Calendar became a weapon of hacking.

According to a report by WIRED, researchers used Google Calendar to hack the Gemini Assistant running on an Android phone. They created a Google Calendar invite, which had a dangerous code hidden in it. As soon as they asked Gemini to briefly explain the details of that calendar invite, that hidden code got activated and started showing its effect on all the connected devices in the house. In this way, a seemingly simple calendar invite became a dangerous way to gain control over your entire smart home system.

Limitations and dangers of AI

Although the researchers did not share technical details, this demo was enough to prove that AI can prove to be extremely destructive in the wrong hands. Already, smart devices are the target of cyber attacks and now with the advent of LLMs (Large Language Models), this threat has increased manifold. This is why it is important to pay special attention to security before promoting smart home AI.

Google's response and future challenges
This demo was shared with Google, and the company admitted that control over home devices through AI could be dangerous. Although the company says that this weakness has not been misused so far, work is going on to fix it. In the coming time, there is a plan to bring Gemini to smartwatches, smart TVs and cars, which was announced in the keynote of I/O 2025. Hopefully, the security team will patch these vulnerabilities in time, before cybercriminals take advantage of them.

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