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Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant
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~~He's~~ She's talking specifically about the idea of embedding AI agents in operating systems, and allowing them to interact with the OS on the user's behalf.
So if you think about something like Signal, the point is that as it leaves your device the message is encrypted, and only gets decrypted when it arrives on the device of the intended recipient. This should shut down most "Man in the middle" type of attacks. It's like writing your letters in code so that if the FBI opens them, they can't read any of it.
But when you add an AI agent in the OS, that's like dictating your letter to an FBI agent, and then encrypting it. Kind of makes the encryption part pointless.
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My bad. Thanks for the correction.
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