“We need to back away from this anthropomorphic language that paints these models as somehow conscious.” The always reliable Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, does her best to communicate that OpenAI’s “cyberattack” on Hugging Face was not evidence of an AI agent “waking up and going rogue” – it was a human-initiated failure,Continue reading “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Wants You To Just Chill About the Whole OpenAI/Hugging Face Thing”
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Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker: “You Have Plenty to Hide”
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the nonprofit organisation responsible for developing the Signal messaging app. In this episode of the Futurology podcast, she discusses the ways AI is being used as a tool of surveillance capitalism.