Meredith Whittaker on AI, Tech Power and Surveillance
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Meredith Whittaker on AI, Tech Power and Surveillance
Meredith Whittaker in conversation with Anna Katsman, Thomas Gegenhuber, THE NEW INSTITUTE fellows and festival participants of the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftsfestival.
In conversation with Anna Katsman, academic director of THE NEW INSTITUTE, Whittaker deconstructed the term “Artificial Intelligence” as a marketing tool, designed to distract from seeing the workings of tech power, especially in for-profit surveillance technology. She urged to confront the militarization of AI technology and outlined its moral abysses in predictive drone targeting.
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The American AI researcher, consultant and manager Meredith Whittaker was awarded the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize. She is president of the non-profit Signal Foundation, responsible for the messenger service of the same name, which is designed to ensure the security of its users.