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Meredith Whittaker

Presidente della Signal Foundation e cofondatrice dell’AI Now Institute, avverte che l’IA è una tecnologia di sorveglianza e che l’IA agentica, esigendo un accesso di livello root a ogni applicazione, elimina privacy e sicurezza a livello applicativo.

Ruoli

  1. 2006 – lug 2019Founder, Open Research group, GoogleCore organiser of the 2018 Google Walkout; resigned citing retaliation.Fonte →
  2. 2017 – oggiCo-founder, AI Now Institute, New York UniversityFounded with Kate Crawford; later Faculty Director, now Chief Advisor.Fonte →
  3. nov 2021 – set 2022Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair, US Federal Trade CommissionFonte →
  4. set 2022 – oggiPresident, Signal FoundationAlso a member of the board of directors.Fonte →
  5. lug 2025 – oggiBoard member, Hubert Burda MediaFonte →

A registro

  1. giu 2026 · Intervista · 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 all’epoca

    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 mar 2025 · Discorso · 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 all’epoca

    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 set 2023 · Intervista · 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 all’epoca

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

  4. 7 set 2023 · Intervista · TIME

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

    President, Signal Foundation all’epoca

    TIME100 AI 2023: Meredith Whittaker →