AI’s mass surveillance tools strip people of their privacy.
As artificial intelligence (AI) inserts itself into nearly every aspect of our lives, some question just how it collects and uses the data. Two major concerns are its surveillance of private citizens and the disbursement of whatever information it gathers. Are AI tools spying on individuals? Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, claims they are.
Artificial Intelligence Spying on the People
“The AI technologies we’re talking about today are reliant on mass surveillance,” Whittaker said at Vivatech, Europe’s top conference for industry players in Paris.
Aside from being president of Signal, Whittaker is also a co-founder of the AI Now Institute, which researches the social impact of artificial intelligence. In 2006, she led a research…
