Signal president warns the hyped agentic AI bots threaten user privacy

• Meredith Whittaker, the president of Signal, said agentic AI poses serious security risks to users.
• Agentic AI refers to bots that can reason and perform tasks for humans without their input.
• But having a bot complete tasks for users means giving it access to reams of data, Whittaker said.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker is skeptical about agentic AI — that is, AI agents that can complete tasks or make decisions without human input.

While…