Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

kept by eddie jan 14

Signal leaders warn that agentic AI systems are inherently insecure, unreliable, and pose a surveillance risk.

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging - Ars Technica
Moxie Marlinspike launches Confer, an end-to-end encrypted AI assistant that uses remote attestation and transparency logs to ensure privacy.
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“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
A messaging app marketed as 'super secure' to a MAGA audience leaked all users' phone numbers due to basic API and design flaws.
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GitHub - AnthonyRonning/sage
Sage is an experimental, self-hosted AI assistant with persistent memory, encrypted messaging via Signal or Nostr, and confidential LLM inference inside a TEE.
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Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw
Google reports state-backed hackers used an AI model to discover and exploit a zero-day bug for the first time, signaling a new era of AI-assisted cyberattacks.
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How Anthropic’s Mythos AI Model Threw the Trump White House’s Tech Strategy Into Chaos - WSJ
Vance alarmed Anthropic executives on a call about Mythos, an AI that can autonomously find software vulnerabilities, prompting a shift toward government oversight.
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