Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ | TechCrunch

Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots 'are not your friends' and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

Whittaker warned that agent AI systems accessing messages and financial data constitute backdoors to end-to-end encryption. Microsoft's agent-OS shift (Project Solara) forces CIOs to choose between productivity and encryption integrity—the defining architecture decision of 2026.