Signal president warns AI chatbots are not friends (opens in new tab)

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned users not to treat AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude as friends, saying they are neither conscious nor sentient interlocutors, according to TechCrunch and India Today. Her comments addressed privacy concerns around consumer AI tools and appeared in a Bloomberg interview about policy, privacy and Signal. Whittaker said she uses AI tools “to format a document here and there,” but does not ask them questions because she does not want a system “aver...