AI’s Threat to Privacy — Signal’s Meredith Whittaker with Nicholas Thompson

We live in a world of mass surveillance of everything that has been instrumented very recently in human history. We're looking at like 20 years, 30 years max, where suddenly all of our actions, our communities, our connections, our thoughts, our feelings are being logged as data.

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1. 01We live in a world of mass surveillance of everything that has been instrumented very recently in human history
2. 02And she also has a lot of views about the risks from the agentic AI ecosystem that coming She worries that it could break some of the privacy protections some of the most important
3. 03The last time I interviewed you, you were presenting a thesis that has become reality, and you made the argument that AI agents were, as you said, were going to break the blood-bra