Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk
‘Signal’ President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, Signal leadership is sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated. By Jon Henshaw in Productivity NewsJan 11, 2026 (Last updated on Jan 12, 2026) At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany, Signal President Meredith Whittaker and VP of Strategy and Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari gave a presentation titled AI Agent, AI Spy. In it, they shared the many vulnerabilities and concerns they have about how agentic AI is being implemented,…
