Signal president Meredith Whittaker: AI chatbots 'are not your friends'

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”"

It’s not Canadians that need to become more literate on AI; it’s Mark Carney. He needs to see the reality of the technology and the harms it’s causing to the people he’s supposed to serve, not just buying industry narratives based on hype instead of reality. disconnect.blog/ai-oppositio...

Holding AI companies accountable for the deaths their chatbots played a part in would save more children more concretely with actual reductions in death than a single privacy destroying age verification plan.

As use shifts from chatbots to agents and AI companies begin to charge for use of their tools rather than to give them away, reality begins to bite the bubble.

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance Interview by Mishal Hussain The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.

The instinct of students is often to use AI to help with homework, even if they are not trying to cheat. And because off-the-shelf chatbots are a helpful assistant, rather than a tutor, they give you the answer and undermine learning. Paper: cepr.org/publications...

gonna kindly request that people shut the fuck up about AI chatbots and people with psychosis if you haven’t had it or cared for people who suffer from it. this isn’t a moral panic, and every week their danger is validated by more tragic & horrific news stories you clearly don’t read

Had similar experience. Paper was clearly written by AI. Speaker only said they’d used chatbots to write it when asked. Only, it was already clear as they’d left search tabs open with terms such as ‘find real references’ and ‘rewrite in human academic language’ visible on shared screen. Truly.

If I’d written a future shock 20 years ago about everyone having ai chatbots that spend a lot of time driving their users into psychosis, you’d think it was a bit ridiculous.

"Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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The shift from "chatbots" to "autonomous agents" is real. We’re moving from simple prompt-response loops to systems that can actually reason through multi-step tasks. If your workflow isn't modular yet, now is the time to start. 🤖⚙️ #AI #Automation

This is basically how I feel about these chatbots. They can be fun. But ultimately they are software operating on behalf of a company. They’re not doing this for free. techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/s...

You don't say. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/chatbots-critical-thinking-skills (Although the critical-thinking skills of people who believe that we actually needed a study in order to prove this could be called into question too.)

yeah that still kind of goes with my point tho: with the rise of ai chatbots and cyberpsychosis (i have thoughts on that term but thats for another time) it feels really weird with what they did with caine. also hearing him talk normally was jarring lol