MEREDITH WHITTAKER 

The digital Dissident 
President of Signal and former Google AI Lead

Meredith Whittaker is a pioneering voice challenging the surveillance-driven AI industry from within. As president of Signal Foundation, she’s protecting encrypted communication for millions while exposing how artificial intelligence fundamentally serves coporate data extraction rather than human flourishing. Her work reveals the uncomfartable truth: AI isn’t neutral technology-Its a surveillance apparatus that concentrates unprecedented power in the hands of a few tech giants. Signal started 10 years ago as a pioneering hacket project, pushing agaisnt a dominant paradigm that was almmost universally celebrated by everyone at the time.

Birth:
Born 1990 

Nationality:
American 

Career Path:
Google (13 years, 2006-2019) 

NYU AI Now Institute (Co-Founder, 2017)

Signal Foundation (President, 2022-Present)