Angetic AI vs Privacy
Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, warns that agentic AI systems could undermine data privacy at its core. Embedded in operating systems, these autonomous agents require sweeping access to calendars, browsers, credit cards, and encrypted apps to function. Such access, she argues, creates backdoors that weaken end-to-end encryption and heighten risks of data exposure. Her call for strict developer opt-outs underscores a defining conflict of the digital age: whether the convenience of agentic AI can coexist with the protection of private communications.
Fernand Khnopff, I Lock My Door Upon Myself, 1891. Public domain.