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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy.

She spoke on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin , Texas , and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing has a “profound issue” with both privacy and security.

She explained how AI agents are being marketed as a way to add value to your life by handling online tasks for the user.

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