Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning 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. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Before NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was a core organizer pushing back against the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. Meredith has advised the White House, FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. She recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.