{"id":354143,"date":"2026-06-21T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=354143"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:28:19","slug":"signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-keep-in-mind-that-ai-chatbots-will-not-be-your-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-keep-in-mind-that-ai-chatbots-will-not-be-your-mates\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal\u2019s Meredith Whittaker wants you to keep in mind that AI chatbots \u2018will not be your mates\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked in regards to the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, \u201cThese will not be your mates. These will not be conscious beings. These will not be sentient interlocutors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whittaker made those comments in <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2026-meredith-whittaker-weekend-interview\/\">a broader interview with Bloomberg<\/a> about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she uses AI tools \u201cto format a document here and there,\u201d but insisted, \u201cI don\u2019t ask them questions. I\u2019m very serious about my pondering and writing, and I don\u2019t want the technique of working through an idea [\u2026] to be foreclosed or eclipsed by the response of a system that\u2019s averaging what\u2019s already on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Microsoft AI CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2025-mustafa-suleyman-weekend-interview\/\">Mustafa Suleyman\u2019s prediction<\/a> that users could let Microsoft Copilot handle all their Christmas shopping this yr, Whittaker argued this scenario \u2014 where Copilot is eavesdropping on the family group chat to find out who wants want \u2014 means giving it \u201caccess to my bank card, my browser, my Signal, the flexibility to message my siblings on my behalf, my home address [and] my calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat you\u2019ve just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services,\u201d Whittaker said. \u201cWithin the context of Signal, it might constitute a type of a backdoor.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked in regards to the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, \u201cThese will not be your mates. These will not be conscious beings. These will not be sentient interlocutors.\u201d Whittaker made those comments in a broader interview with Bloomberg about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[896,517,8204,6475,8203,7904],"class_list":["post-354143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-chatbots","tag-friends","tag-meredith","tag-remember","tag-signals","tag-whittaker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354146,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354143\/revisions\/354146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}