Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker

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Meredith Whittaker is the President of Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute. She joins Big Technology Podcast for a lively discussion about the state of Google, whether AI is for real or a marketing gimmick, whether the online advertising business model is ethically broken, and the state of the Signal messa

Lee Vinsel & Meredith Whittaker 14 Jan 2023 • EN

The Politics of Digital Technology

Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at New York University, talks about the politics of digital technologies with Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel. The conversation examines Whittaker’s fascinating career moving between industry and academia, her r

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Cat Zakrzewski & Meredith Whittaker 10 Jan 2023 • EN

Signal president on future of Big Tech and protecting consumer data

Washington Post tech policy reporter Cat Zakrzewski speaks with Meredith Whittaker, the president of the encrypted messaging app Signal, about the company’s efforts to protect consumer data, her criticisms of Big Tech and the social implications of artificial intelligence. Conversation recorded on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 202

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Alexis Madrigal + Mina Kim & Meredith Whittaker 18 Nov 2022 • EN

Meredith Whittaker's Signal And A Progressive Vision For Tech

What happens when an outspoken critic of the technology industry finds herself at the helm of one of the largest messaging apps in the world? Meredith Whittaker made her name as one of the tech industry’s strongest internal critics, helping lead the worker uprising at Google, founding an institute to rethink the ethics

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Meredith Whittaker is the president of Signal, the popular messaging app that offers encrypted communication. You might recognize Meredith’s name from 2018 when she was an AI researcher at Google and one of the organizers of the Google walkout. Now she’s at Signal, which is a little different than the usual tech compan

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Adam Conover & Meredith Whittaker 16 Dec 2020 • EN

Prop 22 and Tech Companies that Write Their Own Laws with Meredith Whittaker

Distinguished research scientist at NYU’s AI Now Institute and former Google employee/organizer Meredith Whittaker joins Adam to break down Prop 22. They cover workers’ rights for tech companies like Uber and Doordash, why Uber and others spent 200 million dollars on Prop 22’s ad campaign, Meredith’s experience organiz

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