Wednesday 6 November 2024
12:30
Meredith Whittaker
AI, Surveillance, and How to Build a Better Tech Future
Meredith’s work has shaped global AI policy and shifted the public narrative on AI to better recognise the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. As President of the non-profit Signal, the secure messaging service used by journalists, activists, whistle-blowers and soldiers, she has fought against government attempts to break encryption. She joins us to discuss encryption and the government’s fight to end it, AI regulation, big tech surveillance, and what the US Presidential election result means for all of it.
Meredith is the President of the Signal Foundation, the non-profit organisation founded to protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open source privacy technology. The foundation wholly owns Signal Messenger, the secure messaging app used by 40M people around the world. Meredith was previously the co-founder and Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU. Prior to founding AI Now, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab. She has advised the White House, the FCC, FTC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organisations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.
President, Signal Foundation
Meredith is the President of the Signal Foundation, the non-profit organisation founded to protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open source privacy technology. The foundation wholly owns Signal Messenger, the secure messaging app used by 40M people around the world. Meredith was previously the co-founder and Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU. Prior to founding AI Now, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab. She has advised the White House, the FCC, FTC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organisations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.
