"Of course, you know the rest: In the piece, The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, detailed how he'd been added to a Signal chat about an upcoming military operation in Yemen. Over the following days and weeks, the incident would become known as "SignalGate" -and created a legitimate risk that the fallout would cause people to question Signal's security, instead of pointing their fingers at the profoundly dubious op-sec of senior-level Trump officials."
"That never happened. In fact, Signal's user numbers grew by leaps and bounds, both in the US and around the world. It's growth that, Whittaker thinks, is coming at a time when "people are feeling in a much deeper, much more personal way why privacy might be important." On this week's episode of The Big Interview, I talked to Whittaker, who also cofounded the AI Now Institute, about the aftermath of SignalGate, the trajectory of artificial intelligence, and the tech industry's current relationship with politics."
Meredith Whittaker serves as president of Signal and cofounded the AI Now Institute. In March, senior Trump administration officials accidentally added a journalist to a sensitive Signal group chat about a military operation in Yemen, an episode that became known as SignalGate. The incident risked shifting scrutiny from officials' poor operational security to Signal itself, but instead prompted substantial global user growth. Whittaker attributes the growth to a deeper, more personal awareness of privacy. Whittaker also highlights trends in artificial intelligence, naming "agent" as an over-hyped buzzword and citing chatbots as a peculiar AI application.
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