Signal Chief Meredith Whittaker Warns AI Agents Open a Backdoor to Private Messages
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In a recent interview, Meredith Whittaker, CEO of Signal, discussed the trust users are able to place in AI chatbots. [Read more] Great deals don't wait: subscribe to our Frandroid Deals WhatsApp channel! (zero spam, we promise).
The president of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, did not chew her words in an interview given to Bloomberg on issues of digital confidentiality. Asked about the implications of conversational assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude, she gave a clear warning: these systems are neither conscious beings nor interlocutors ... Read more Meredith Whittaker (Signal) draws the alarm bell: IA chatbots "are not your friends" appeared first on Fredzone.
To entrust her messages, her credit card and her diary to an intelligent assistant? For the president of Signal, it amounts to setting up a back door at home. And these chatbots, she warns, are not your friends.
Signal Chief Meredith Whittaker Warns AI Agents Open a Backdoor to Private Messages
Meredith Whittaker does not mince words. AI chatbots are not your friends. They are not conscious beings. They are not sentient interlocutors. The president of Signal delivered that blunt assessment in a recent Bloomberg interview. Her message lands at a moment when Microsoft, Google, Apple and OpenAI race to embed autonomous agents into operating systems, email, calendars and messaging apps. Those agents promise convenience. Whittaker sees surv…
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