Signal's Meredith Whittaker: 'I see AI as born out of surveillance'

45 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by tysone
(ft.com)

7 Comments

ajhurliman

9 hours ago

This is just an ad for Signal. There’s nothing really coherent about her take, she just sees the entire world through the lens of surveillance so she’s trying to shoehorn today’s hot topic into that narrative as well.

akomtu

9 hours ago

It doesn't mean she is wrong. Survelliance to AI is what senses are to us. Without the streams of information from our senses our consciousness would turn blank. Similarly, the AI of the future will need connection to the world outside it to create a world inside.

twiceaday

8 hours ago

Senses to AI is what senses are to us. Characterizing AI sensing as always surveilling just shows your hand, and hers.

none4methx

7 hours ago

What they’re doing is “sensing” my secrets… which they’ll sell to people who want to east my time so they can maybe sell me things.

Mark Zuckerberg, or his ilk, is actively shirking responsibility for what those ads say. And even when they know they do harm, they still aren’t moved to act. That’s the safety guarantee at the end of sensing.

It’s way worse than surveillance. It just also includes it.