#Surveillance #AI #GenerativeAI #Privacy #DataProtection: "“I see AI as born out of the surveillance business model . . . AI is basically a way of deriving more power, more revenue, more market reach,” she says. “A world that has bigger and better AI, that needs more and more data . . . and more centralised infrastructure [is] a world that is the opposite of what Signal is providing.”
At Google, where she started her career in 2006, Whittaker witnessed the rise of this new wave of so-called artificial intelligence — the ability to pull out patterns from data to generate predictions, and more recently create text, images and code — as Google began to leverage the precious data trails it was harvesting from its users.
“Suddenly, everywhere, there were little courses in Google that were like, learn machine learning, apply machine learning to your thing,” she says. “We hadn’t decided it was called AI then. The branding was still kind of up in the air.”"
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