Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’ Devin Coldewey <https://techcrunch.com/author/devin-coldewey/>@techcrunch <https://twitter.com/techcrunch>/ 1:01 AM GMT+2•September 26, 2023 Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.” Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 <https://youtu.be/amNriUZNP8w>, Whittaker explained her perspective that AI is largely inseparable from the big data and targeting industry perpetuated by the likes of Google and Meta, as well as less consumer-focused but equally prominent enterprise and defense companies. (Her remarks lightly edited for clarity.) “It requires the surveillance business model; it’s an exacerbation of what we’ve seen since the late ’90s and the development of surveillance advertising. AI is a way, I think, to entrench and expand the surveillance business model,” she said. “The Venn diagram is a circle.” continua qui: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/signals-meredith-whittaker-ai-is-fundament...