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For all the hype they’ve gotten, AI agents— software that can browse the web, operate multiple apps on your device and perform tasks on your behalf— are “haunted” by real security and privacy risks, Signal president Meredith Whittaker said at tech conference SXSW in Austin this week. Whittaker said these systems were like putting your “brain in a jar,” as AI agents need to be given access to sensitive data such as credit card information or phone contacts and also require access to use apps on your behalf. There currently aren’t encrypted models to send and receive that data, which has to be processed in the...
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