Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is “perilous” for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps
Artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose a threat to secure apps such as Signal …Forums:SlashdotForums:Msmash /Slashdot:AI Agents ‘Perilous’ for Secure Apps Such as Signal...
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players”
Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the 'concentration … Bluesky: @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , @meredithmeredith , and @meredithmeredith Forums: r/tech...
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”
techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s... … Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Agents agents agents! — Yes, Whittaker is right! — Also: agents agents agents! If you say it enough — I've been told — it becomes t...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
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Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.h...
Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world . Twitter: @matthew_d_green , @sat...
Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more
The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru . Tweets: @grettalouw , @colincrowel...
Critics say big tech companies are formulating AI ethics boards and principles as a strategy for avoiding the possibility of government regulation
&/or no public disclosure of such mechanisms? http://www.theverge.com/... #ethics Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : Incisive take on the tech industry embrace of Ethics Councils and the accountabilit...