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Computer Says MaybeLingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Meredith Whittaker, Audrey Tang, Abeba Birhane, and Usha RamanathanIt’s our second week of playing AI lingo bingo. The summit in India is underway and the air is thick with vague terms that fail to describe the big problems.More like this: Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Karen Hao, Joan Kinyua, Chenai Chair, and Rafael GrohmannWith us this week to discuss co-opted terms is Meredith Whittaker on how ‘open source’ cannot meaninfully be applied to AI systems; Audrey Tang on ‘democratisation’, something which is both helped and harmed by AI; Abeba Birhane on everyone’s favourite slogan ‘AI for Good’...
2026-02-2044 min
Les Matins de France CultureIA contre le cancer / Reform UK / Meredith Whittaker, présidente de Signal : la voix qui défie la Big Tech américainedurée : 02:30:06 - Les Matins - par : Guillaume Erner, Yoann Duval - Ce matin sur France Culture, à 7h40, Guillaume Erner reçoit la présidente de la messagerie cryptée Signal, Meredith Whittaker, pour parler de surveillance, de pouvoir et de la vraie nature de l'IA. A 7h17, Pauline Schnapper revient sur les 22 conservateurs britanniques qui ont rejoint Nigel Farage. - réalisation : Félicie Faugère
2026-02-042h 30
Les Matins de France CultureMeredith Whittaker, présidente de Signal : "L’IA n’est qu’un slogan marketing"durée : 00:39:30 - L'Invité(e) des Matins - par : Guillaume Erner, Yoann Duval - Quel est le point commun entre JD Vance et Edward Snowden ? Ils utilisent tous les deux la messagerie cryptée Signal. Aujourd'hui, Meredith Whittaker, présidente de cette messagerie chiffrée, est notre invitée. Elle nous parle de surveillance, de pouvoir et de la vraie nature de l'IA.
- réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Meredith Whittaker Présidente de la messagerie chiffrée Signal
2026-02-0439 min
L'Invité(e) des MatinsMeredith Whittaker, présidente de Signal : "L’IA n’est qu’un slogan marketing"Quel est le point commun entre JD Vance et Edward Snowden ? Ils utilisent tous les deux la messagerie cryptée Signal. Aujourd'hui, Meredith Whittaker, présidente de cette messagerie chiffrée, est notre invitée. Elle nous parle de surveillance, de pouvoir et de la vraie nature de l'IA.
2026-02-0439 min
Otostopçunun Yapay Zeka RehberiDaron Acemoğlu : Yapay Zekayı Yeniden Tasarlamak? Otomasyon Çağında İş, Teknoloji, Demokrasi ve Adalet Nasıl Şekillenmeli?Otostopçunun Yapay Zeka Rehberi'nde bu bölüm, Daron Acemoğlu’nun öncülüğünü yaptığı Redesigning AI forumunu merkez alıyor; teknolojik gelişmenin demokrasi, emek, eşitsizlik ve gözetim toplumları üzerindeki etkilerini inceliyoruz. Forum katılımcılarından Daniel Susskind’in teknolojik işsizlik uyarılarından, Kate Crawford’un veri sömürgeciliğine dair çarpıcı analizlerine; Meredith Whittaker’ın gözetim kapitalizmine karşı duruşundan üniversitelerde yapay zekânın toplumsal sorumlulukla yeniden tasarlanması çağrılarına kadar geniş bir yelpazede seslere kulak veriyoruz. Sonunda da çözüm önerilerine, kitabın bakışına hep beraber kafa yoruyoruz.Kaynaklar:
2026-01-0127 min
The 404 Media PodcastREPLAY: Signal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AIThis is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors (Joseph) gets to speak to one of the most important people in the world of encryption (Whittaker). Definitely take a listen. Paid subscribers...
2025-12-3149 min
BuitenhofSharon Dijksma, Meredith Whittaker, Bart Groothuis, Michiel DriebergenAan tafel deze week: burgemeester Utrecht Sharon Dijksma, president van Signal Meredith Whittaker, Europarlementariër Bart Groothuis, journalist Michiel Driebergen.
Presentatie: Maaike Schoon
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Het lokale bestuur staat onder een enorme druk. Afgelopen week stapte de burgemeester van Terneuzen op en werden bestuurders van de gemeente Venlo geïntimideerd. Welke gevolgen hebben deze ontwikkelingen voor de lokale de...
2025-11-3054 min
Tilly Talks TechShe Walked Out of Google, Now She’s Exposing the Data Industry | Meredith Whittaker on Tilly Talks Tech!Data. What are they doing with it? Privacy. Cybersecurity. Who's watching? These are topics that all most likely make you squirm. On this episode of Tilly Talks Tech, I sit down with CEO of encrypted messaging service Signal. 📱 It's always been an issue, and now with AI chat bots and tools seemingly everywhere - how do we stay secure? 🔒 I had so much fun on this episode - Meredith you are a badass and a legend!Check her out here!: https://x.com/mer__edith?lang=enAlso check out Signal...
2025-11-2732 min
The Moynihan ReportAI is NOT replacing your job, it's "degrading" it. here's how | The Moynihan ReportSignal President Meredith Whittaker joins The Moynihan Report for a deep dive into the AI industry, exposing how artificial intelligence is often just a marketing term designed to degrade jobs rather than replace them. An ex-Googler, Whittaker breaks down the dangerous concentration of power within Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, revealing how their surveillance business model creates an unholy alliance with the government. The conversation covers the chilling reality of digital privacy, the failure of "private" apps like WhatsApp, the threat of targeted spyware, and the inside story of the Crypto Wars, all while touching on...
2025-11-1452 min
ADAPT RadioWho owns AI with Meredith Whittaker from SignalWhen your AI agent books a rental car, it needs your driver's license, credit card, calendar access and permission to message your contacts—creating what Meredith Whittaker calls "fundamental backdoor" threatening apps like Signal.
At ADAPT ADVANCE 2025, Signal Foundation President and AI Now Institute co-founder Meredith Whittaker joined Dr Abeba Birhane for a fireside chat dissecting why "bigger is better" serves hyperscaler monopolies not evidence.
How AI companions weaponise 1970s Eliza manipulation psychology on minors, why "open source AI" became marketing arbitrage exploiting software community goodwill, and what sovereign AI actually requires beyond anxiety signifiers—including democratic governance, trusted local data...
2025-11-1043 min
El Podcast de MKDInteligencia Artificial — ¿más apariencia que realidad?En este episodio hablamos sobre una entrevista a Meredith Whittaker, presidenta de Signal y reconocida crítica del poder tecnológico, este episodio explora la verdadera naturaleza de la inteligencia artificial.Whittaker sostiene que la IA es más apariencia que realidad, un fenómeno revestido de promesas que muchas veces ocultan la concentración de poder corporativo, la vigilancia masiva y la falta de transparencia de las grandes tecnológicas.El análisis también aborda los riesgos sociales y políticos de la IA: desde la manipulación algorítmica y la erosión de la priv...
2025-10-2916 min
POLITICO TechSignal’s Meredith Whittaker on AI hype and the end of privacyEven if you don’t use Signal, you certainly remember Signalgate. That was the scandal in March when senior U.S. officials used a private messaging app to communicate about a military strike in Yemen — and included a journalist in the chat. It thrust Signal and Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker into the spotlight. But she’s made headlines before as a Google employee turned vocal tech critic. On this week’s episode of POLITICO Tech, host Steven Overly sits down with Whittaker to discuss the future of Big Tech, privacy risks in an AI world and how Silicon Valley i...
2025-10-2341 min
Microsoft Innovation PodcastPersonal Automation with AI🔴 For full Show Notes https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/747 Hosts: Mark Smith, Meg SmithPersonal automation that works now. Real examples beat agent hype: observe tasks, optimise setup, and automate recurring work. Scheduling with ICS, daily briefs, shopping lists, and one-off searches show clear time savings and control.Join the private WhatsApp group for Q&A and community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/E0iyXcUVhpl9um7DuKLYEz🎙️ What you’ll learnSpot hype and choose automations that save setup time.Use observation and RPA-style recording to find rep...
2025-10-2128 min
Town TalkLISTEN: Town Talk/Mary Washington Breast Surgical OncologistDr. Meredith Whittaker says early detection is the key to saving lives and achieving the best possible outcomes in breast cancer treatment. She discusses the emotional and physical challenges patients face during breast surgery and how doctors work to support them every step of the way. Dr. Whittaker also spotlights cutting-edge advancements in surgical techniques and technology that are transforming care and improving recovery times. For information visit breastcare.mwhc.com.
2025-10-1443 min
BreitbandSignal-Chefin Whittaker - KI-Agenten bedrohen die PrivatsphäreMeredith Whittaker warnt vor dem Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz. Denn KI-Agenten sind nicht immer nützlich. Die Chefin des Messengerdienstes Signal fürchtet, die Helfer könnten Datensicherheit und Privatsphäre gefährden. Vera Linß, Dennis Kogel, Hagen Terschüren, Marie Zinkann, Meredith Whittaker www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Breitband
2025-10-0437 min
KI verstehenKI-Agenten - Tech-Expertin Meredith Whittaker warnt vor SicherheitsrisikenHotels buchen, Freunden schreiben, mit Kreditkarte zahlen: Autonome KI-Agenten könnten uns bald viele Alltagsaufgaben abnehmen. Doch die smarten Helfer gefährden Datensicherheit und Privatsphäre, warnt eine prominente Kritikerin der US-Tech-Konzerne. Moritz Metz hat in Genf mit der KI-Forscherin und Präsidentin der gemeinnützigen Signal-Stiftung Meredith Whittaker gesprochen.Das erwartet Euch in dieser Folge:(02:35) Kann KI Gutes tun?(09:20) KI-Agenten und der Datenschutz(21:13) Warum die KI-Branche dringend Profitquellen braucht(22:47) Europas Chancen im globalen KI-WettrüstenUnsere Gesprächspartnerin in dieser Folge:Meredith Whittaker, KI-Expertin und Forscherin, Präsidentin der Signal-S...
2025-09-2528 min
Uncanny Valley | WIREDBIG INTV: Signal's Meredith Whittaker Says AI Is Just A Branding TermThe Signal Foundation president, Meredith Whittaker recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat. And tells, Katie about why it's important she gets paid less than her engineers. Join WIRED’s best and brightest on Uncanny Valley as they dissect the collision of tech, politics, finance, and business, from Alexis Ohanian's newest tech venture to the effects of inaccurate information from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots on social protests.
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2025-09-2345 min
De Dépendance PodcastMeredith Whittaker on Signal, Surveillance & AIIn this episode, we welcome Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation and one of the world’s leading tech critics, for a powerful conversation on privacy, surveillance, and the future of technology. Whittaker, who also co-founded the AI Now Institute, shares her insights on how surveillance and AI are deeply intertwined, and how tech giants profit from large-scale data extraction. She highlights Signal as a radical alternative—a privacy-focused, non-profit messaging app that challenges the dominance of surveillance capitalism. Joined by Evelyn Austin of Bits of Freedom, Whittaker discusses how current tech infrastructures shape our lives, the urgent need...
2025-07-091h 10
Ethics TV with Jonathan MacDonald#44 Meredith Whittaker of Signal at SWSW 2025In a rare departure from the usual interview format, this episode features Jonathan MacDonald, Founder of SELF, commenting on the messages shared by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, at SXSW Texas in March 2025. #signal #privacy #AI #SXSW #ethicstv #ethics #ethicaltech #SELF
2025-07-0922 min
The RIPE Labs PodcastBreak Ground! Plant Seeds! Rewild the Internet!The Internet has long been fertile ground for innovative technologies to grow and openly compete. But having emerged out of these conditions, certain services and the companies that offer them have come to dominate and stifle the very diversity that made their existence possible. Our guest in the episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, Maria Farrell, talks about why we must - and how we can - rewild the Internet.Show notes:00:00 - Find out more about our excellent guest, Maria Farrell02:26 - Maria at RIPE 9005:48 - More about Seeing...
2025-06-301h 03
Radio LabA Conversation With Meredith WhittakerNuits sonores Lab is opening a discussion with Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, the worldwide messaging application renowned for its data protection. She is also co-founder of the AI Now Institute, an independent research institute equipping the field with expert analysis to challenge and reimagine the current trajectory of AI. During this conversation, Meredith Whittaker presents us with her critical reflections from her position at the heart of tech, the ethics of artificial intelligence, online privacy, social networks and Internet governance.
with Meredith Whittaker (Foundation Signal / AI Now Institute | US)
Moderation: Tariq Krim (Cybernetica | FR)
2025-06-3040 min
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Comment les GAFAM ont transformé Internet en machine de surveillance
Pourquoi l’ IA prolonge un modèle publicitaire basé sur l’extraction de données
Le concept d’ “ autorité épistémique ” des géants de la tech
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2025-06-0900 min
QAA PodcastAI Slopaganda feat. Ryan Broderick (E319)Artificial Intelligence carries a host of risks: it could reshape jobs and the economy, alter educational practices, help powerful figures dodge accountability through AI-assisted decision-making, and even influence our personal relationships and mental well-being. But here’s the biggest question: how will AI affect the content filling up your social media feeds?
In today’s episode, journalist Ryan Broderick joins us to discuss the influx of “AI slop” — which increasingly jostles for space alongside human-created content. We’ll explore the “Shrimp Jesus” Facebook phenomenon, a viral (yet entirely fabricated) story about Elon Musk saving a young girl with Neuralink, and the 1995 sci-fi...
2025-04-121h 09
VirtualVirtual #EXTRA: Met Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker van over Signal, privacy en AISignalgate blijft nazinderen in de Verenigde Staten. Een journalist werd per ongeluk toegevoegd aan een groepschat op Signal waar geheime en uiterst gevoel info over bombardementen op Yemen werd gedeeld. Zaten nog in de groep: oa vice president jd vance, nationaal veiligheidsadviseur Mike Waltz en minster van defensie Hegseth en nog een handvol toplui. Een paar weken voor het veiligheidsdebacle sprak Tim met Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker over Signal, privacy en AI voor TerZake (vrtnws). Dit is hun volledig gesprek.Volg ons op onze social media kanalen en blijf op de hoogte: Instagram TikTok L...
2025-03-2732 min
Brandsit AudioWhittaker broni Signal, rzuca wyzwanie WhatsApp o metadaneAfera z udziałem byłych urzędników administracji Trumpa, którzy omyłkowo dodali dziennikarza do poufnego czatu Signal, rzuca nowe światło na trwającą debatę o bezpieczeństwie komunikatorów. W tym kontekście, dyrektor generalna Signal, Meredith Whittaker, zdecydowanie broni prywatności swojej aplikacji, stawiając ją w opozycji do WhatsApp.
2025-03-2604 min
ROCKETFUEL - Der Change Podcast!SXSW25 Recap Spezial mit Rapha Gielgen & Oliver Kemmann - Folge 225Lohnt sich die SXSW in Austin Texas noch, oder braucht es neue Formate?
In dieser Episode diskutieren Oliver Kemmann und Raphael Gielgen über die South by Southwest (SXSW) 2025, deren Trends und Themen sowie die Veränderungen in der technologischen Landschaft. Sie reflektieren über die Stimmung auf der Veranstaltung, die Integration von KI und die Bedeutung eines technologischen Verständnisses für die Teilnehmer. Zudem wird die Preisentwicklung und die Motivation der Teilnehmer thematisiert, während sie auch schräge und interessante Sessions hervorheben. In dieser Episode reflektieren Rapha und Oliver über ihre Erlebnisse beim South By Southwest Festival, diskutieren die Bede...
2025-03-1648 min
Podcast Ubuntu PortugalAdiado para obrasEsta semana, por razões que não podemos desvendar, não haverá episódio. Depois revelaremos tudo! Entretanto, deixamos nas notas algumas hiperligações de artigos bem gostosos, para trabalho de casa. Boas leituras - e olhem que sai no teste!
Já sabem: oiçam, subscrevam e partilhem!
20 anos de Linux no «desktop»! (3 partes): https://ploum.net/2025-03-08-linux_desktop3.html
Cory Doctorow acerta na cabeça do prego: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/privacy-last/#exceptionally-american
A EFF contra a censura para a Internet: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
Roteiro do Plucky Puffin: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t...
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Talkin' Bout [Infosec] News2025-03-10 — Agent A.I.🧦 SOC Summit 2026https://www.antisyphontraining.com/event/soc-summit/00:00 - PreShow Banter™ — Agent A.I.07:35 - BHIS - Talkin’ Bout [infosec] News 2025-03-1010:47 - Story # 1: 12 Chinese hackers charged with US Treasury breach — and much, much more15:25 - Story # 2: Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues25:33 - Story # 3: X/Twitter is down for a third time today27:33 - Story # 4: Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go33:37 - Story # 5: Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth ch...
2025-03-121h 04
AI News Daily - Your Daily AI Briefing in 5 MinutesGrok Interaction. AI in McDonalds. AI Privacy Risks. Mistral AI OCR.Grok can now be tagged in posts on X and responds. McDonalds equips its branches with AI functions. Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues. Mistral AI revolutionizes document recognition with new AI.
The AI news for March 8th, 2025
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News #1: Grok can now be tagged in posts on X and responds
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2025-03-0804 min
TechStuffThe Story: Ask Lots of Questions w/ Meredith WhittakerMeredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. She is also the co-founder of NYU’s AI Now Institute. Whittaker got her start at Google, where she worked for 13 years until resigning in 2019 after she helped organize the Google Walkouts. She speaks with Oz about learning on the job, championing data privacy and being awarded the Helmut Schmidt Future Prize for “her commitment to the development of AI technology oriented towards the common good.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-02-0542 min
De BalieMeredith Whittaker on Signal, privacy and inequality in the tech industryTogether with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, we explore the dynamics of tech, power and surveillance. We speak with Whittaker about her work establishing Signal, the challenges of navigating the tech industry as a woman and the possible effects of the recent American election on the tech sector.In today’s digital age, technology companies wield unprecedented power over our personal lives, collecting vast amounts of data that fuel surveillance practices and shape our online experiences. Few understand these dynamics better than Meredith Whittaker, who co-founded Signal to provide a private, secure messaging alternative.Beyond he...
2025-01-051h 12
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable PeopleMeredith Whittaker: Revolutionizing Tech Privacy and PowerIn this episode of Remarkable People, join Guy Kawasaki for an illuminating conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and former Google AI ethics researcher. Discover how she led the historic Google walkout, her vision for private communication technology, and her critical perspective on AI's impact on society. Whittaker shares insights on leadership, challenging tech industry norms, and building ethical alternatives to surveillance-based business models.---Guy Kawasaki is on a mission to make you remarkable. His Remarkable People podcast features interviews with remarkable people such as Jane Goodall, Marc Benioff, Woz, Kristi Yamaguchi, and...
2024-12-1841 min
If You Were In Charge8. AI Surveillance with Meredith WhittakerWelcome to If You Were in Charge, A podcast featuring global peace strategist, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini.Each week Sanam takes on a major global challenge and hosts leading practitioners and innovators to share their work and their solutions - if they were in charge with the necessary political and financial resources.In episode 8, Sanam speaks with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, about critical issues surrounding data privacy, surveillance, and the role of technology in society.They discuss the use of artificial intelligence in surveillance and its deadly applications i...
2024-11-2658 min
Rapid ResponseFighting for privacy, with Signal’s Meredith WhittakerWho is listening in and tracking our digital activity? And is it really necessary? Recorded live at the 2024 Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Rapid Response host Bob Safian sits down with Signal president Meredith Whittaker to discuss privacy, trust and digital surveillance, from governments and from companies. Whittaker argues that we should question what she sees as extreme data collection by big tech, and she rejects the notion that encrypted apps like Signal are responsible for enabling bad actors. Meredith also shares why she helped organize protests at Google, the philosophy that inspired Signal's founder Moxie Marlinspike...
2024-11-0118 min
NRDY PodcastNRDY002 - Adobe ist auch ein Ziegel
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00:00 Intro00:21 WordPress Debakel10:25 Hören – Logbuch Netzpolitik mit Meredith Whittaker10:59 Hören – Molly White beim XOXO Fest11:49 Machen – Adobe ist auch ein Ziegel15:31 Machen – Arboretum in Aubonne18:00 Veranstaltungen – 38C319:56 Outro, Dank und Tschüss
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Der Titel ist eine Anspielung darauf, dass Adobe in Südamerika und einigen Teilen der USA als Lehmziegel bekannt ist (vgl. Wikipedia).
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Josh Collinsworth – If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
404 Media – Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear...
2024-10-1920 min
On with Kara SwisherSignal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AIWhat do cybersecurity experts, journalists in foreign conflicts, indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Drake have in common? They all use the Signal messaging app. Signal’s protocol has been the gold standard in end-to-end encryption, used by Whatsapp, Google and more, for more than a decade. But it’s been under fire from both authoritarian governments and well-meaning democracies who see the privacy locks as a threat. Since 2022, former Google rabble-rouser and AI Now Institute co-founder Meredith Whittaker has been president of the Signal Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the app. Kara talks with Meredith about her...
2024-10-171h 02
Logbuch:NetzpolitikLNP504 The politics of intellectual shame
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A discussion with Meredith Whittaker
For this episode we made an exception and decided to record an interview in English. We are talking to Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, a non-profit company that's developing the Signal app that is world's most popular Multiplatform private encrypted messenger system. We talk to Meredith about her way into the digital realm, how she shook up Google by organizing walkouts and more or less erasing all memories to it's "don't be evil" motto, how Signal came to be and...
2024-10-172h 04
Podcast Državljan D103 Meredith Whittaker: Technology acts political and hides behind objectivity
With us today is Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation who serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute.
She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission. Whittaker was employed at Google for 13 years, where she founded Google’s Open Research group and co-founded the M-Lab. In 2018, she was a core organizer of the Google Walkouts and resigned from the company in July 2019. Sh...
2024-10-1526 minPodcast Državljan D103 Meredith Whittaker: Technology acts political and hides behind objectivity
With us today is Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation who serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute.
She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission. Whittaker was employed at Google for 13 years, where she founded Google’s Open Research group and co-founded the M-Lab. In 2018, she was a core organizer of the Google Walkouts and resigned from the company in July 2019. Sh...
2024-10-1526 min
Državljan D103 Meredith Whittaker: Technology acts political and hides behind objectivity
With us today is Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation who serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute.
She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission. Whittaker was employed at Google for 13 years, where she founded Google’s Open Research group and co-founded the M-Lab. In 2018, she was a core organizer of the Google Walkouts and resigned from the company in July 2019. Sh...
2024-10-1526 min
AI IA HOYSignal: La Privacidad No Tiene PrecioEn un entorno donde nuestros datos son moneda de cambio, Signal se erige como un baluarte de privacidad, liderado por Meredith Whittaker. Bajo su dirección, esta aplicación no solo desafía las normas de Silicon Valley, sino que demuestra que la tecnología puede ser ética y sostenible sin sacrificar nuestra seguridad.
Puntos clave:
El nacimiento de Signal: Un vistazo a cómo una herramienta para los más preocupados por la privacidad se transformó en una plataforma global imprescindible.
Meredith Whittaker al mando: Desde su activismo en Google hasta liderar Signal, Meredith representa una fuerza imparable en la lucha...
2024-09-0211 min
Haken dran – das Social-Media-Update der c'tMusk, Durow und diese ärgerlichen Gesetze immer (mit Torsten Beeck)
Die französischen Behörden haben gegen Telegram-CEO Pawel Durow Anklage erhoben - die Vorwürfe klingen schwer: Mittäterschaft bei der Verwaltung einer Online-Plattform zur Ermöglichung illegaler Transaktionen durch eine organisierte Gruppe angeklagt, Beihilfe zu Straftaten wie der Verbreitung von Material über den sexuellen Missbrauch von Kindern, Drogenhandel und Betrug sowie wegen Verweigerung der Zusammenarbeit mit den Strafverfolgungsbehörden - ihm könnten bis zu zehn Jahre Haft drohen.
Musk dagegen droht die komplette Sperre von X in Brasilien. Auch hier aufgrund der Verstößen gegen geltendes Recht.
Dabei brüstet man sich doch immer so gesetzestreu - aber gelt...
2024-08-301h 09
Impact Talks at UTSEP3 Technology, ethics and responsible AI development with Signal's Meredith WhittakerHow do technology, ethics, and responsible AI development intersect and how do they impact on our shared future?Meredith Whittaker (keynote speaker) has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires.
2024-08-281h 03The 404 Media PodcastSignal's Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AIThis is a special interview episode with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation. I'm sure you all know, and maybe even use, the Signal messaging app. Here we sat down with Whittaker to talk all about the state of Signal today, the threat of AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more. This is a wide-ranging discussion where one of the few journalists who has revealed new details about backdoors (Joseph) gets to speak to one of the most important people in the world of encryption (Whittaker). Definitely take a listen. Paid subscribers...
2024-08-0250 min
Technology and SecurityTech, AI, digital infrastructure and surveillance with Meredith WhittakerIn this episode of Technology and Security, Dr Miah Hammond-Errey speaks with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal. The interview explores key contemporary issues in technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI). They discuss the impact of AI in elections and democracies, including the need for stronger local media ecosystems and improved focus on the ‘mediating’ role of social media platforms and the information ecosystem. They discuss the concentration of AI power and reliance of the business model on mass collection, including the need to write the tech stack for privacy, not surveillance. This episode also explores developing democ...
2024-07-1541 min
The Wheeler CentreSurveillance Technology and AI: Meredith Whittaker in ConversationMeredith Whittaker is not afraid to take on tech giants. In 2018, she led the famous mass staff walkout at Google over the company’s laissez faire attitude towards sexual harassment allegations and the moral and ethical implications of its business practices. Now, as President of Signal, the not-for-profit encrypted and secure messaging app, Whittaker is one of the world’s most respected experts on data surveillance and the future of big tech. She has advised the White House, the US Federal Trade Commission and many government and civil organisations on privacy, internet security and policy. At th...
2024-07-051h 02
7amThe woman who spoke out against Google on AIMeredith Whittaker turned her back on Google after raising concerns about the mass surveillance fueling AI, but she didn’t leave tech entirely.The former AI whistleblower is now the President of Signal, a messaging app that keeps conversations encrypted – used by journalists, whistleblowers, drug dealers, militants and others who want to keep communications secure.So why did she blow the whistle on Google? Is privacy the answer to AI? Or does privacy cause just as much harm as surveillance?Today, President of the Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker, ahead of her public appearance at T...
2024-06-2518 min
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2024-06-233h 38
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes PodcastThis Moment in Tech with Meredith WhittakerIt’s been a wild last year or so in tech. We’ve seen a marked rise in the development of artificial intelligence, large language models and prolific growth of augmented reality systems. At the same time, it can feel like we’re moving backwards as concerns continue to rise about user privacy and the methods by which personal data is collected and monetized. Our guest this week points out that protecting privacy requires tech companies to ditch traditional business models that monetize user surveillance. Meredith Whittaker is president of Signal App and serves as the chief advisor for the AI Now...
2024-04-2355 min
PodQueueNDSS 2024 Keynote - AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s, Meredith WhittakerPLENARY SESSION Tuesday Keynote - AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s
This keynote will look at the connections between where we are now and how we got here. Connecting the “Crypto Wars”, the role of encryption and privacy, and ultimately the hype of AI… all through the lens of Signal.
Full text of Meredith's talk: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
Keynote Speaker: Meredith Whittaker, Signal
Meredith Whittaker is president of the Signal Foundation and has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government.
Before joining Signal, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, a...
2024-04-041h 03
PodQueueWhat is AI? Part 1, with Meredith Whittaker | AI Now SalonsIn this grounding conversation, the first of two parts on “What is AI?” we go on a deep dive with Meredith Whittaker on the history of artificial intelligence (AI), from hype to current day-to-day impacts. Meredith has had a front seat to some of the most important developments and growth in so-called AI over the past 15 years. Here, she dives into the historical context that gave rise to AI, emphasizing how its emergence was bound together with the privatization of the internet and with the expansion of the surveillance advertising business model currently at the core of the tech industry. But...
2024-03-2422 min
The Matrix AI Talk Radio from inteligenesis.comMeredith Whittaker of Signal Lambasts Anti-Encryption AdvocacyIn the heated discourse surrounding online privacy, Meredith
Whittaker stands as a bastion for digital rights. The Signal executive
recently characterized the push against encryption as 'parochial,
magical thinking.' She argues that the opposition lacks a fundamental
understanding of the digital ecosystem.
Whittaker's
comments come at a time when debate rages over the balance between
security & privacy. Law enforcement & policy makers argue that
encryption can shield criminal activity. In their eyes, it's a hindrance
in their quest to uphold justice.
A striking point in
Whittaker’s argument is the notion that weakening en...
2024-03-0501 min
CRITCH® AI Tech Podcast von Michael Freitag - Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), Wirtschaft und TechnologieCRITCH® AI TECH MORNING NEWS, 10.02.2024: Bayern will mit BayernGPT eigene Künstliche Intelligenz und investiert Millionen, Josef „Sepp“ Hochreiter baut mit Stefan Pierer besseres ChatGPT und Meredith Whittaker erhält Helmut-Schmidt-ZukunftspreisDrei neue KI-News aus den vergangenen Tagen in einer schnellen Übersicht als KI News Espresso. Bayern will mit BayernGPT eigene Künstliche Intelligenz und investiert Millionen, Josef „Sepp“ Hochreiter baut mit Stefan Pierer besseres ChatGPT und Meredith Whittaker erhält Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis: https://www.it-boltwise.de/ai-morning-news-podcast-51-bayern-will-mit-bayerngpt-eigene-kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-investiert-millionen-ki-koryphaee-josef-sepp-hochreiter-baut-mit-stefan-pierer-besseres-cha.html (YouTube)CRITCH® AI Tech Podcast von Michael Freitag 🖖🏻Der deutschsprachige Podcast von Michael Freitag über Künstliche Intelligenz, Technologie und Wirtschaft. Abonnieren Sie unseren Podcast für regelmäßige News, Meinungen und Interviews zu allen Themen rund um Artificial Intelligence und zusammenhängende Themen der KI-Generation. Den KI-M...
2024-02-1005 min
Innovative Minds with Audrey Tang 唐鳳佮創新#InnoMinds S2EP8 ⎸ Why End-To-End Encryption Isn’t Enough to Ensure Your Privacy OnlineIn this riveting episode of #InnoMinds, Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Minister, and Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, delve into the intricate realm of online privacy. They dissect the significance of end-to-end encryption and why it falls short in safeguarding our online privacy. Audrey and Meredith also share insights into the latest developments in the open-source world, AI, and their personal connection to the open-source community.
Host ⎸ Arnaud Campagne (TaiwanPlus)
Guests ⎸ Meredith Whittaker and Audrey Tang
Season 2 of Innovative Minds deep-dives into artificial intelligence, digital democracy, and...
2024-01-261h 06
Big Technology PodcastSignal’s President on AI, Advertising, and Running a Popular Messaging App — With Meredith WhittakerMeredith Whittaker is the President of Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute. She joins Big Technology Podcast for a lively discussion about the state of Google, whether AI is for real or a marketing gimmick, whether the online advertising business model is ethically broken, and the state of the Signal messaging app. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss the mysterious nature of Telegram. And enjoy the cool-headed arguments throughout.---Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice.For weekly updates on...
2024-01-0339 min
Azeem Azhar's Exponential ViewAzeem’s Picks: AI, Accountability, and Power with Meredith WhittakerArtificial Intelligence (AI) is on every business leader’s agenda. How do you ensure the AI systems you deploy are harmless and trustworthy? This month, Azeem picks some of his favorite conversations with leading AI safety experts to help you break through the noise.
Today’s pick is Azeem’s conversation with Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation. Meredith is a co-founder and chief advisor of the AI Now Institute, an independent research group looking at the social impact of artificial intelligence.
They discuss:
How discriminatory culture influences the values embedded in AI.
Whethe...
2023-11-0831 min
Internet of Humans, with Jillian York and Konstantinos Komaitis. Edited by Javier Pallero.S03E03: Meredith WhittakerIn this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York talk with Meredith Whittaker,the President of the Signal Foundation. Meredith is also the current Chief Advisor, and the former Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the AI Now Institute.
Meredith shares with us the role of Signal in ensuring the privacy and security of communications and her plans for the messaging service. We also discuss the fight for encryption, as pressure to undermine it in jurisdictions across the world is increasing. Finally, we also discuss about AI, its governance and the concerns that have recently manifested by policy makers.
2023-09-1842 min
The Machinist281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker) Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)Pub date: 2023-09-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire...
2023-09-141h 40
This Machine Kills281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)We are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire stack for these systems.
••• Follow Meredith: https://twitter.com/mer__edith
••• Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control | Meredith Whittaker https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/
••• Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI | David Gray Widder, Meredith Whit...
2023-09-071h 40
AI Australia PodcastAI Australia Presents: This Week in AI vol 6This week in AI, Natalie and Kobi talk about the global progress on the regulation conversation, and the potential for a global governing body for AI. They talk about the EU AI Act which has passed another major milestone, and hypothesise about the impact of commercial interests on the effectiveness of that. There was also a senate hearing in the US that Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Gary Marcus (NYU) attended, where they proposed a collaborative international body bringing together academics and the public rather than just corporate/tech interests. President Biden has also announced a ta...
2023-07-1115 min
The DigAI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah WestFeaturing Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
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2023-06-252h 22Podcast Archives - The DigAI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah WestFeaturing Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.
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2023-06-252h 22
Jacobin RadioDig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah WestFeaturing Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigSubscribe to New Left Review newleftreview.orgRegister for the Socialism 2023 Conference socialismconference.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-06-252h 22
The Next Stage podcast by Web SummitWhy big tech’s surveillance business model needs to stopMeredith Whittaker is an outspoken critic of big tech’s track record on gathering and processing user data. The president of encrypted messaging app Signal talks about what she calls its “surveillance business model” but also how much power these companies exert.AI, says Meredith, “is not some dematerialised technology that exists in the ether. AI is the product of significantly concentrated resources that right now are in the hands of large companies”.Naturally, the conversation strays to the hottest AI topic of 2023: ChatGPT, which Meredith calls a “bullshit engine”. Why? Listen on to find out!
2023-06-2018 min
The Tech Policy Press PodcastA Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, President of SignalEarlier this month, Justin Hendrix traveled to RightsCon, the big gathering of individuals and organizations concerned with human rights and technology organized by Access Now. The sprawling event had hundreds of sessions on a wide range of themes, but one topic discussed across multiple tracks was the importance of encrypted communications, especially to groups such as political dissidents and journalists. A key panel at RightsCon featured Signal President Meredith Whittaker, who spoke out about policies proposed in legislatures around the world that threaten the promise of end-to-end encryption to preserve the privacy of messages sent between individuals...
2023-06-1838 min
The Currently Reading PodcastSeason 5, Episode 44: Your Homework + Literary Festival Tips and TricksOn this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: a summer reading conundrum, and a box full of galleys Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: best practices and encouragement for attending a literary festival and meeting authors The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like...
2023-06-1257 min
Kongresse | Congressesre:publica 2023: Meredith Whittaker - AI, Privacy, and the Surveillance Business ModelAI, Privacy, and the Surveillance Business Model
Opening Keynote given by Signal President Meredith Whittaker
Speaker:
Meredith Whittaker - re-publica.com/de/user/16238
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2023-06-0600 min
Kongresse | Congressesre:publica 2023: Meredith Whittaker - AI, Privacy, and the Surveillance Business ModelAI, Privacy, and the Surveillance Business Model
Opening Keynote given by Signal President Meredith Whittaker
Speaker:
Meredith Whittaker - re-publica.com/de/user/16238
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re:publica 23 – “CASH”
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2023-06-0600 min
Have A Nice Future | WIREDCan We Get A Little Privacy?Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, about whether we’re really doomed to give up all of our private information to tech companies. Whittaker, who saw what she calls the “surveillance business model” from the inside while working at Google, says we don’t need to go down without a fight and outlines strategies for getting our privacy back.
2023-05-1033 min
Demos Helsinki PodcastThe Politics of Digital Technology Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The Politics of Digital TechnologyPub date: 2023-01-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, inclu...
2023-01-261h 14
Podcasting for Educators: Podcasting Tips for Online Entrepreneurs81. The Role That Listener Retention Plays in Your Podcast’s Success [Organic Growth Series]You can bring in new listeners all day every day, but are you doing enough to KEEP them around? Today we're continuing our Organic Growth Series by looking at the importance of listener retention and how much that impacts your podcast's growth (because it definitely does). Tune in to hear my own first-hand experience of what happens when you don't prioritize nurturing your audience, some key indicators that make listeners actually stick around, and how you can build a community around your podcast. If you have a podcast, I bet you're already doing a great job...
2023-01-2522 minThe MachinistThe Politics of Digital Technology Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: The Politics of Digital TechnologyPub date: 2023-01-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, inclu...
2023-01-241h 14
New Books in Politics and PolemicsThe Politics of Digital TechnologyMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
2023-01-141h 15
New Books in American PoliticsThe Politics of Digital TechnologyMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-01-141h 15
New Books in TechnologyThe Politics of Digital TechnologyMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology
2023-01-141h 15
Peoples & ThingsThe Politics of Digital TechnologyMeredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her role in the Google walkout, and her hopes for the future, including the role of social movements in fomenting political change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-01-141h 14
The VergecastWhy Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith WhittakerToday we're sharing an episode of Decoder with Nilay Patel featuring an interview with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal.Signal is the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name from 2018 when she was an AI researcher at Google and one of the organizers of the Google walkout. Now she’s at Signal, which is a little different than the usual tech company: it’s operated by a nonprofit foundation and prides itself on collecting as little data as possible.Listen to more of Decoder with Nilay Patel anywhere you get yo...
2022-11-021h 13
Decoder with Nilay PatelWhy Signal won’t compromise on encryption, with president Meredith WhittakerMeredith Whittaker is the president of Signal, the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name from 2018 when she was an AI researcher at Google and one of the organizers of the Google walkout. Now she’s at Signal, which is a little different than the usual tech company: it’s operated by a nonprofit foundation and prides itself on collecting as little data as possible.But messaging apps are a complicated business. Governments around the world really dislike encrypted messaging and often push companies to put in backdoors for surveillance and law en...
2022-10-181h 12Podcasting for Educators: Podcasting Tips for Online Entrepreneurs62. Starting a Podcast to Fill a Gap for STEM Teachers with Naomi MeredithThinking about starting a podcast but worried there's too much competition out there? Think again! While there are a TON of existing podcasts, there aren't as many active ones as you think. And when you do your research and find your niche? That's where the magical podcast gap is. In today's super fun episode, I chat with STEM teacher (and Prep School student) Naomi Meredith about how she found her gap and started The Elementary STEM Coach, a podcast for STEM teachers. She's here to tell us all about how things are going for her and the...
2022-09-2143 min
ZD Tech : tout comprendre en moins de 3 minutes avec ZDNetSignal recrute une ex-Google pour tenter de gagner de l'argentBonjour à tous et bienvenue dans le ZDTech, le podcast quotidien de la rédaction de ZDNet. Je m’appelle Guillaume Serries et aujourd’hui, je vous explique comment l'application de messagerie Signal va enfin tenter de gagner de l'argent.
L'application de messagerie Signal vient d'embaucher Meredith Whittaker, une ancienne responsable du géant de la tech Google. Et ce n'est pas sur un petit poste puisqu'elle devient la première présidente de Signal.
Reste que son objectif est très très ambitieux. Elle a pour miss...
2022-09-0903 min
Noticias de Tecnología ExpressEntregan HoloLens al ejército estadounidense – NTX 201Abuelita mexicana en el top 5 de cocina en YouTube, llega la realidad aumentada al ejército estadounidense y Signal tiene nueva presidenta. Puedes apoyar la realización de este programa con una suscripción. Más información por acáNoticias:-Twitter confirmó en un reporte de TechCrunch que su función de edición de tuits, disponible para suscriptores de Twitter Blue, permitirá a los usuarios editar un tuit hasta cinco veces dentro de los 30 minutos después de ser publicado.-Signal contrató a la exgerente de Google y cofundador del...
2022-09-0710 min
This Machine KillsPatreon Preview – 165. Phillip K. Dick MoveWe go from talking about how AI/ML research is dominated by the resources, interests, and tradeoffs of “top labs.” Then discuss how our algorithmic agents become active participants in human culture but in ways that can be unexpected and unknowable. Together these conditions are producing a world that is far more weird, bizarre and unsettling than anybody intended. Less George Orwell, more Phillip K. Dick.
Some stuff we reference:
••• I don't really trust papers out of "Top Labs" anymore | https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/uyratt/d_i_dont_really_trust_papers_out_of_top_labs/
••• The Steep Cost of Capture...
2022-06-0407 min
This Machine Kills96. Taking Control of the Data Pipeline (ft. Meredith Whittaker, Salomé Viljoen)Intro: Contra – This Machine Kills (remixed) https://contra805.bandcamp.com/track/this-machine-kills
We’re joined by two of the sharpest minds on the politics of AI and data governance—Meredith Whittaker and Salomé Viljoen—to chat about the relationship between corporate gatekeepers and academic research, the construction and infrastructure of data, AI as a universal hammer for all nails, how the state enforces Silicon Valley’s power, and what it would take to seize the data pipeline from private capital for the public good.
This discussion expands on a recent article we published in Nature: Everyone should decide how their digital dat...
2021-08-251h 31
This Machine Kills30. Death of the Entrepreneur (ft. Veena Dubal)We’re joined by the great Veena Dubal (twitter.com/veenadubal), law professor at UC Hastings, for a fantastic discussion about how gig work platforms like Uber have weaponized ideas of flexibility and entrepreneurship, the political / legal origins of the distinction between “employees” vs. “independent contractors,” and the possibilities for building worker power in the face of authoritarian neoliberalism. As Silicon Valley takes aim at other professions – rolling out flexible exploitation, eviscerating labor rights, and turning all jobs into piecework – the fate of gig workers is the fate of everybody.
Some stuff we reference:
• Those in Power Won’t Give Up Willingly: On t...
2020-12-231h 26
Factually! with Adam ConoverProp 22 and Tech Companies that Write Their Own Laws with Meredith WhittakerDistinguished research scientist at NYU’s AI Now Institute and former Google employee/organizer Meredith Whittaker joins Adam to break down Prop 22. They cover workers’ rights for tech companies like Uber and Doordash, why Uber and others spent 200 million dollars on Prop 22’s ad campaign, Meredith’s experience organizing at Google and pushing back at their foray into military tech, and the dangerous myths around artificial intelligence.
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2020-12-161h 19Big Technology PodcastGoogle Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Tech Activism and the Deep Flaws of ‘The Social Dilemma’When I interviewed Tristan Harris about The Social Dilemma earlier this month, my mentions filled with people saying, "You should speak to the people who were critical of the social web long before the film.” One name, Meredith Whittaker, stood out. An A.I. researcher and former big tech employee, Whittaker helped lead Google’s walkout in 2018 amid a season of activism inside the company.On this edition of the Big Technology Podcast, we spoke not only about her views on the film, but of the future of workplace activism inside tech companies in a mo...
2020-10-2142 min
World Leader's Podcast: In conversation with...Episode One: Aftermath: The Social Dilemma World Leaders Podcast: In conversation with…Meredith Whittaker, Co-Founder, AI Now Institute
Interviewer: Alex Kantrowitz, Founder, Big Technology and On-air Contributor, CNB
World Leaders Podcast: In conversation with… Hear the latest from World leaders in AI on data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence by listening to individual or series of podcasts. Great interviews with academics and practitioners as 40 minute episodes with a primer from well known hosts!
2020-10-1450 min
MIT Technology Review NarratedIn Machines We Trust: AI Reads Human Emotions. Should It?AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the implications of how it’s used and where it’s heading in the future.We meet: Shruti Sharma, VSCO Gabi Zijderveld, AffectivaTim VanGoethem, HarmanRohit Prasad, AmazonMeredith Whittaker, NYU's AI Now InstituteC...
2020-10-0724 min
The AmberMac ShowALGORITHMS: Why We’re Hooked Hard on Social MediaAlex Kantrowitz, the author of Always Day One and host of the Big Technology Podcast, joins me to discuss why algorithms are a lot like junk food without the regulation. To further discuss the societal impact of artificial intelligence systems, AI Now Institute Co-founder Meredith Whittaker shares what we need to know about built-in bias and discrimination.
2020-09-2929 minThe DigDemystifying Big Tech with Meredith WhittakerGuest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that’s remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state.
FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T. Hamid on carceral technologies logicmag.io/care/community-defense-sarah-t-hamid-on-abolishing-carceral-technologies/
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2020-09-262h 08Podcast Archives - The DigDemystifying Big Tech with Meredith WhittakerGuest host Astra Taylor interviews tech organizer and scholar Meredith Whittaker on the political economy of the tech leviathan that’s remaking capitalism, empire, and the carceral state.
FYI: Whittaker mentioned this interview with Sarah T. Hamid on carceral technologies logicmag.io/care/community-defense-sarah-t-hamid-on-abolishing-carceral-technologies/
Support this podcast with a contribution at Patreon.com/TheDig
2020-09-262h 08
Night Call120: The Robopod With Meredith WhittakerEmily returns with tales of a haunted hotel she stayed at in Mobile, Alabama. Then it's the #babywitches who hexed the moon, followed by a listener email about the queer Sapphic aesthetics of cottagecore. This of course leads into some discussion of Taylor Swift's new album Folklore, and how in a way it's always fall right now. We read a listener email about the struggles of international students right now, and another about working in a plastic surgery clinic during the pandemic. Then the girls are joined by Meredith Whittaker - Research Professor and Co-founder of the AI Now...
2020-07-271h 13
City Arts & LecturesEthics in Technology, with Ruha Benjamin and Meredith WhittakerRuha Benjamin studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine. In books like “Race After Technology”, and “People’s Science”, Benjamin examines how racial inequality plays out in every corner of civic, scientific, and social life. Meredith Whittaker co-founded the AI Now Institute, a
research center examining the social implications of artificial intelligence in criminal justice, law enforcement, housing, and education.
On June 1, 2020, Ruha Benjamin and Meredith Whittaker spoke via video conference. The two talked about biases built into every day technologies, how COVID-19 disproportionately harms marginalized communities, and ethical concerns over the increased power tech elites n...
2020-06-141h 01