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Meredith Whittaker

Présidente de la Signal Foundation et cofondatrice de l’AI Now Institute, elle avertit que l’IA est une technologie de surveillance et que l’IA agentique, en exigeant un accès de niveau racine à chaque application, supprime la vie privée et la sécurité au niveau applicatif.

Fonctions

  1. 2006 – juil. 2019Founder, Open Research group, GoogleCore organiser of the 2018 Google Walkout; resigned citing retaliation.Source →
  2. 2017 – aujourd’huiCo-founder, AI Now Institute, New York UniversityFounded with Kate Crawford; later Faculty Director, now Chief Advisor.Source →
  3. nov. 2021 – sept. 2022Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair, US Federal Trade CommissionSource →
  4. sept. 2022 – aujourd’huiPresident, Signal FoundationAlso a member of the board of directors.Source →
  5. juil. 2025 – aujourd’huiBoard member, Hubert Burda MediaSource →

Au registre

  1. juin 2026 · Entretien · Bloomberg

    What you've just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services… In the context of Signal, it would constitute a kind of a backdoor.

    Board member, Hubert Burda Media à l’époque

    On OS-level AI agents such as Microsoft Copilot; said in a Bloomberg interview, quoted verbatim by TNW on 21 June 2026.

    Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots 'are not your friends' and calls Copilot agents a backdoor →

  2. 7 mars 2025 · Discours · SXSW 2025

    So there's a profound issue with security and privacy that is haunting this hype around agents, and that is ultimately threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer by conjoining all of these separate services [and] muddying their data.

    President, Signal Foundation à l’époque

    The bracketed "[and]" is TechCrunch's own insertion.

    Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues →

  3. 25 sept. 2023 · Entretien · TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

    AI is a surveillance technology… AI is a way, I think, to entrench and expand the surveillance business model.

    President, Signal Foundation à l’époque

    Signal's Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' →

  4. 7 sept. 2023 · Entretien · TIME

    The Venn diagram of privacy concerns and AI concerns is a circle.

    President, Signal Foundation à l’époque

    TIME100 AI 2023: Meredith Whittaker →