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Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 02:52:12 JST Meredith Whittaker

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/09/09/ai-agents-are-coming-for-your-privacy-warns-meredith-whittaker?giftId=859d3a46-a913-4ee0-a3d5-060b774c2501&utm_campaign=gifted_article
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1. In the Economist, drawing of me with the headline :AI agents are coming from your privacy, Warns Meredith Whittaker"
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2. To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.
  https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/115/174/182/449/412/106/original/7c6fee416d0042d9.png

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