At least that’s what Signal president Meredith Whittaker thinks about this new paradigm of computing, where AI performs tasks on users’ behalf. While putting our brains in jars might be tempting on those particularly chaotic days, it does make us vulnerable to privacy and security threats, she cautioned onstage at SXSW.
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