Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, has more than 17 years of tech experience across industry, academia and government. Before joining Signal, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU and served as the faculty director of the AI Now Institute, which she co-founded.<\/p>\n

Whittaker\u2019s research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and the concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams and founded Google\u2019s Open Research Group. She also co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world\u2019s largest source of open data on internet performance.<\/p>\n

Whittaker was one of the core organizers pushing back against Google\u2019s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its dangers, and she was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. Whittaker has advised the White House, the FCC, the city of New York, the European Parliament \u2014 and many other governments and civil society organizations \u2014 on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy and measurement. She recently completed a term as senior advisor on AI to the chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n