Published June 20, 2026 at 8:32 PM
TechCrunch
Jun 21, 2026, 6:00 AM
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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