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.”

source https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/