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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Convenience, deserve neither Liberty nor Convenience." — Benny Franken (or someone)

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Thank you, that was well worth the watch

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Guy Kawasaki mentions about his cochlea implants, they have been around for a long while (in the UK, NHS funded for at least 15 years). More concerning are Continuous Glucose Monitors (in England all type 1 diabetics have them) where the data goes to a US server beyond the reach of GDPR

Most people will cave to the convenience. Then network effects and relative (dis)advantage will pull in even those who object to the security concerns. It's analogous to the 'kids and smartphones' problem: I object to my 12-yr old having a phone and IG, but they are left behind if they don't.

EU needs enforcement of the GDPR

Just a nitpick that doesn't change your point: the Ben Franklin wrote is not about that at all but a very context-sensitive argument in favour of taxation and legislature-organised defense spending. www.npr.org/2015/03/02/3...

We have octogenarians in Congress who don't know what podcasts are and the average user of SM now can't tell if AI slop is fake. We're way deep in a hole with no shovel.

The data would lead directly back to Oracle's Israel SOC... Happy to provide names and PLENTY of data including receipts.

This type or research is only possible with privacy teams like @meredithmeredith.bsky.social runs save lives of researchers like mine.

Very sinister & worrying. It does not look as if we are going to have much choice eventually. How can we resist this very worrying loss of privacy & stop Big Brother from completely taking over our brains & our lives?

Everyone wants a piece of it at my work place. I keep saying it’s not safe when we have confidential information. But being cautious & secure isn’t sexy.

There’s no indication that palantir can do anything like this. The person you’re replying to is either making things up on the internet or just casually dropping what would be the biggest cybersecurity scandal in a decade in a random bsky reply and what’s more likely?

yeah no I carry my groceries on my back from the supermarket next door I meant what "ai assistants" are constantly offering to do for me, so like I'm fully capable of ordering a pizza.. Get back to me when LLMs can pick up trash.

These attacks are already in the wild. Here's one, but there have been others. www.techradar.com/pro/security...

People don't care about privacy too much. It's ridiculous to think that your refrigerator or your vacuum cleaner needs your browsing history, contacts, apps etc.

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Damn she's good. So used to people in tech just drivelling at us now, nice to watch an expert unpacking this shite.

It would need access to all global transaction data.

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Major difference is that while you no privacy towards Google, an agentic ai bot will also make chances and do stuff on your behalf. Mostly (hopefully) exactly as you want it to do. And occasionally it may do something else

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This is great predicated on the fact that we don't happily give up our info(security) for convenience regularly, already. And to the ppl pushing this, Peter Thiel and other Darth Vader types. To them, this is a feature, not a bug.

The minute Google announced they were going to force GenAI onto my phone I started looking for a replacement that isn't Android. Unfortunately, that's getting a lot harder to do, especially now that they're baking AI into other OS. We need smart phones that are privacy first.

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The use case for it is ethical slavery. The cost is potentially all privacy and digital security. I'm deeply suspicious of those in favor of AI agents.

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Truth in advertising at least.

There will come a day when all these tech businesses will essentially own & control all government agencies, and the people will have to choose between accepting surveillance or being prohibited from banking, insurance, healthcare, travel, elections, communication, etc.

I'm sorry, but haven't we come up with many solutions for such flows in the existing systems for decades now? Delegating auth with OAuth; Identity Federation and SSO, combined with user consent and contextual authorization; token exchange and policy based access, etc. What is she on about?

Blimey.

It's a huge issue, but one that cryptography might be able to solve. See for example www.anthropic.com/research/con...

Listen to Meredith

I've been thinking for a long time about how the best use for technology is for things that would be prohibitively difficult without it. There are a lot of things technology does now that people were doing just fine & oft times better without it.

Having a concert ticket booked is an unimpressive thing to have done, even without the privacy violations.

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We need to see more of her in the MSM. People might change their minds about “putting their brains in a jar” after they listen to her speak.

would be nice to see more product or service marketing campaigns like "You trust us to do xyz for you. If we can't do it without AI, we'll let you know."

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That's not what it does. Like with Suno, the audio-generating AI, it has not given us amazing music. It has just given us the privilege to pay to make our own mediocre audio. It never makes the good thing. They just let you pay to try and make the good thing.

Your profile says #EndFossilFuels. Andrew Forrest has funded Meredith. Read up on the guy:

Got damn

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⚠️ "put our brain in a jar" - and give it all our data...⚡

Superintelligent. Amazing.

The mark of someone who truly understands something is their ability to explain it to the laity.

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A cloud server with root access in the clear to all your systems is a pretty good analogy for "agentic AI".

It’s also a simple task that requires almost no effort that I don’t need AI to do for me. Anything that I can do while sitting on my ass is pretty easy. Can it plan and make me dinner?

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📌 I use signal for a while now, I must admit I didn't know who was the head of signal. Glad to hear she rocks.

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This seems right from a security POV. But the underlying assumption of relatively static peeps in a relatively static world assumes a kind of perfect, constantly self-perfecting knowledge. But the material basis of any “everything,”even were it to exist, is constantly changing and undoing the text

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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social Thanks for raising this crucial point. A question: in your view, how would your concern be reduced if the messaging to one’s friends happens on, say, SMS or iMessage rather than Signal?

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Totally. Too many naive and emotionally immature people calling the shots in tech and telling the rest of us how to run our lives.

I'm very, very glad she's in charge of something as important as Signal

Posted this while waiting for Impeachment proceedings on CSPAN bsky.app/profile/news...

guess the theft-bot does even more theft than most people realize

wow what a breath of fresh air

I've been skeptical of agentic AI for awhile, but now I'm wildly against it. She laid it out so succinctly. Wow.

Sorry, I cannot get past her hair. Character flaw of mine? Absolutely. But I just cannot even hear the words.

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Holy crap a Tech CEO that actually sounds like she understands what the black box actually does!

Perfect example of convenience solving proble don't have making life less secure - see contactless cards or keyless car entry and problems caused

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In general, aren't AI's energy requirements also a threat to humanity?

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Well, this made me reconsider my enthusiasm for "agentic AI" ... Which was really the only useful thing I saw coming out of current AI hype.

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THANK YOU

ripley would have reservations about ai overreach wouldn't she

Hey @askbillmitchell.bsky.social do you feel like pitching in with your opinion here?

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Pretty easy when you're not in a K-hole

also the hair and accent who wdnt listen to marisa tomei from my cousin vinny

first time i’m hearing her speak, but damn this woman is cool. Very clear in her message, explains it simply, in a mildly accusing way.

Woof, I didn't realize how much I needed to listen to hear someone smart demonstrate critical thinking on this issue today.

It was at SXSW: www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...

Great clip, i dont want to use these things but that far resch of data and access is pretty terrifying. Especially when you think about the morals of the tech giants who will hold it.

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Who even wants this? Besides all the down sides of energy consumption, privacy, and control - who wants the computer to do all that on autopilot? Which seats to get? Which friends to invite? Who not to invite for this particular event? Any wrong choice ruins the event. No f’ing way.

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⬇️ Tá na mão, aperta aqui pra baixar!

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Of course she’s going to push the AI fear. Otherwise, her company cant sell it’s product. Marketing 101, create a problem and sell fear.

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Sacrificing privacy at the altar of convenience 🤨#MakeItMakeSense

she's stunning

How I imagine these agents

⬇️ Sure! Press here to download it!

Finally, a person who knows how to talk about this stuff w/o sounding like they eventually want me dead.

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this is such a beautifully clear and informed explanation of some of the big issues!

@reckless.bsky.social you gotta get her on the pod (again?) because this is a fascinating angle that was not yet explored enough on the subject. This is far greater than "The Doordash problem"

Thank YOU, could not have done it without the guide