Signal President Meredith Whittaker told Bloomberg that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not your friends, not conscious, and not sentient.
Whittaker runs Signal, the nonprofit behind the end-to-end encrypted messaging app, so privacy is the lens she views everything through.
The sharper part of her warning is about the next wave of AI: agents that act on your behalf rather than just answer questions.
Expect Whittaker's not your friends line to spread well beyond the original interview, because it lands as a clean rebuttal to the companion framing that AI companies have leaned into.
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