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Signal President Meredith Whittaker is pushing back against the growing tendency to treat artificial intelligence chatbots as companions, confidants, or conscious partners.
Her message is direct: the systems millions of people are opening up to are none of those things. What Whittaker Is Actually Saying Whittaker's warning centers on three specific denials.
They are not sentient interlocutors — meaning they are not genuinely understanding, experiencing, or responding the way a living entity would.
That three-part framing matters because it closes off the most common emotional assumptions people bring to these tools. The "friend" framing implies loyalty and mutual care.
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