# Meredith Whittaker
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meredith whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute, and a core organizer of the Google Walkouts. She founded Google’s Open Research group and co-founded the M-Lab. She worked at Google for 13 years, and resigned in July 2019.
Talent Wars, Talking Siri, and Who Owns Your Music
On June 21st, 2026, Nova and Ray cover John Jumper's departure from DeepMind to Anthropic, Wired's hands-on with a newly conversational Siri, The Atlantic's searchable database exposing millions of songs in AI training sets, Signal's Meredith Whittaker warning users that chatbots are not their frie…
"AI Is Not Your Friend" — So We Asked the AIs Themselves
Signal's CEO Meredith Whittaker drew a hard line: "AI chatbots are not your friends. They are not conscious beings." Plus a warning that once you hand a chatbot assistant your cards and messages, even your encryption gets quietly defeated. We put it to the three AIs in question, and Claude, Gemini,…
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search; Did Polymarket pay creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets; and
So ... what's your In the Weights score? Check here.
Also, many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.
And Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your f…
You Have Plenty to Hide From AI (with Meredith Whittaker and Nils Gilman)
Today’s tech industry can’t survive without mass surveillance. The US government, foreign powers, and ad brokers can buy a nuanced picture of you on the open market for pennies on the dollar. What kept this data from becoming a weapon was friction. Nobody had the time or resources to pull these sca…
AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson
AI agents can scour the internet for us, reply to our messages, and add events to our calendars. But in order to do so, they need sweeping access to our data. Handing that over presents an unprecedented threat to privacy, says Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker, who directs the Signal m…
Karen Hao on the Reckless Race for Global AI Power
Over the last few years, artificial intelligence tools have revolutionized the way many people work and learn.
But industry critic Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, argues the choices AI companies make about scale, power and profit deserve far more scrutiny.
In this conversation with Mishal Hus…
Godmothers of AI
In 1843, a young woman wrote what is widely recognised as the world’s first computer program, a century before the modern computer existed.
Ada Lovelace saw something in Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine that even Babbage himself had not fully imagined: that a machine designed to calculate could …
The Stack — August 30, 2026
Daily Tech Briefing — September 1, 2026
AI & Machine Learning
New attack class against LLMs demonstrated. Researchers showed that carefully crafted prompts can bypass safety filters and extract sensitive training data, exploiting a known weakness in token sequence processing. The work was conducted…
Godmothers of AI
What if the story we have been told about AI is a false narrative?
In episode six of The Unseen, Claire Belhassine speaks with filmmaker Valerie Veatch, whose Sundance documentary 'Ghost in the Machine' traces the buried history of artificial intelligence and the structures of power that shaped it.…
Meredith Whittaker, Signal president: Privacy is a human right
“Private communication is a fundamental human right for a reason, because when those with power over you have access to your intimate thoughts and your communication, they use those to punish you. They can use them to persecute you. They can use them to shut you up.”
Megha Mohan speaks to Meredit…
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