Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, expressed concerns about agentic AI, which can operate independently, during her speech at SXSW 2025. She highlighted its risks, noting that such AI requires considerable access to personal data, which could jeopardize user privacy. While proponents of agentic AI present it as a helpful tool for automating tasks, Whittaker cautioned that users would need to relinquish significant control over their information. This raises alarms about trust and data security in the age of emerging AI technologies.
I think there's a real danger that we're facing, in part because what we're doing is giving so much control to these systems that are going to need access to data.
It would need access to our browser, an ability to drive that. It would need our credit card information to pay for the tickets.
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