Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
Signal 总裁 Meredith Whittaker 提醒你：AI 聊天机器人“不是你的朋友”
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ Signal 总裁 Meredith Whittaker 提醒你：AI 聊天机器人“不是你的朋友”
Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” 当被问及 ChatGPT 和 Claude 等聊天机器人带来的隐私影响时，Signal 总裁 Meredith Whittaker 回答道：“它们不是你的朋友。它们不是有意识的生命体。它们也不是具有感知能力的对话者。”
Whittaker made those comments in a broader interview with Bloomberg about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she uses AI tools “to format a document here and there,” but insisted, “I don’t ask them questions. I’m very serious about my thinking and writing, and I don’t want the process of working through an idea […] to be foreclosed or eclipsed by the response of a system that’s averaging what’s already out there.” Whittaker 在接受彭博社关于政策、隐私和 Signal 的深度采访时发表了上述言论。她承认自己偶尔会使用 AI 工具“来格式化文档”，但她坚持认为：“我不会向它们提问。我对自己的思考和写作非常严谨，我不希望在推敲想法的过程中……被一个只会整合现有信息的系统所给出的回答所阻断或掩盖。”
As for Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s prediction that users could let Microsoft Copilot handle all their Christmas shopping this year, Whittaker argued this scenario — where Copilot is eavesdropping on the family group chat to determine who wants what — means giving it “access to my credit card, my browser, my Signal, the ability to message my siblings on my behalf, my home address [and] my calendar.” 针对微软 AI 首席执行官 Mustafa Suleyman 关于用户今年可以让 Microsoft Copilot 处理所有圣诞购物的预测，Whittaker 反驳称，在这种场景下——即 Copilot 监听家庭群聊以确定谁想要什么——意味着要让它“访问我的信用卡、浏览器、Signal，并赋予它代表我给兄弟姐妹发消息、获取我的家庭住址以及访问我的日历的权限。”
“What you’ve just described is a system with very pervasive access across multiple applications and services,” Whittaker said. “In the context of Signal, it would constitute a kind of a backdoor.” “你刚才描述的是一个在多个应用程序和服务中拥有极高访问权限的系统，”Whittaker 说道，“在 Signal 的语境下，这构成了一种后门。”