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Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/
I want to add a re-post of a blog post I wrote about the risks of AI combined with end-to-end encryption systems. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/lets-talk-about-ai-and-end-to-end-encryption/
@matthew_d_green She's great. Really glad people like her (and like Signal) are out there making the right decisions thinking about the right things.
@matthew_d_green whenever I read the word "agentic" it makes me want to tear my fucking eyes out
@matthew_d_green It's a great article !
One line I found strange,, because I've been doing SW/HW for 40 years.
"Apple can’t rely on every device possessing enough power to perform inference locally. This means inference will be outsourced to a remote cloud machine."
In the old days, this is the opposite of how it worked. The latest HW (think 286, Pentium) could run the latest SW, but old ones could not. That motivated you to update your HW. The HW and SW companies (Intel/MS) thrived...
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@matthew_d_green So the traditional solution for "your platform is too slow to run local AI" is "upgrade your HW or be left out, or be privacy-compromised.
But high-speed mobile networks offered a new solution, which thrived, promising cheap endpoints (phones, computers) because the big expensive systems in the Cloud can do all the work...
Well, iPhones and comparable Androids are about $1000, so I don't see any evidence that has happened.
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@matthew_d_green My point is that it's not that "old HW can't run new AI stuff".
The problem is that the platforms will not "force" HW upgrade to gain access to new features. Partially because they have promised "new APPs will work on your fancy iPhone". Partially because the end-users are not pros and corps and techies, they are "everybody" - mass market. They invest in HW "differently".
And if your business model is to make money from "free services", you can't leave anyone behind.
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@matthew_d_green That's why my perspective is that we get bad privacy because we want free stuff.
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