Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
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Whittaker is reframing chatbots as data-hungry services, not companions — that’s a cue for enterprises to harden policies around what employees disclose to third-party assistants. Treat every assistant interaction as if it could be logged, learned from, and subpoenaed, and adjust your governance and UX copy accordingly.
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