The head of the Signal app has criticized plans in the EU to allow messengers to have backdoors to enable automatic searches for criminal content. Signal is considered one of the most secure messengers.
Yeah, AFAICT that’s not what agentic AI is supposed to mean.
Agentic AI is supposed to be AI that can run tasks autonomously. The typical examples would be order you take out by clicking around in a browser or phone app.
Edit: and anyway the current proposal, even in it’s most degenerate form, is not suggesting anything remotely as criminal as having everyone’s activity constantly summarized. It’s “just” supposed to be a content filter that will report “illegal” content. This is horrible in many ways, namely the fact that in the best case false positive would massively outnumber real positives. The safeties built around these reports also seem too low. So the picture I send to my wife of our child playing in the bathtub would stay in a state database for years. Fuck no. And I could go on.
But nowhere is anyone remotely proposing having an AI send a fucking daily summary of instant messaging activity.
Yeah, AFAICT that’s not what agentic AI is supposed to mean.
Agentic AI is supposed to be AI that can run tasks autonomously. The typical examples would be order you take out by clicking around in a browser or phone app.
Edit: and anyway the current proposal, even in it’s most degenerate form, is not suggesting anything remotely as criminal as having everyone’s activity constantly summarized. It’s “just” supposed to be a content filter that will report “illegal” content. This is horrible in many ways, namely the fact that in the best case false positive would massively outnumber real positives. The safeties built around these reports also seem too low. So the picture I send to my wife of our child playing in the bathtub would stay in a state database for years. Fuck no. And I could go on.
But nowhere is anyone remotely proposing having an AI send a fucking daily summary of instant messaging activity.