Signal President and VP warn at 39C3 in Hamburg that agentic AI agents are insecure, unreliable with 70% failure rates, vulnerable to malware attacks via OS-level databases like Windows 11 Recall, and urge industry to halt reckless deployment until threats mitigated.

‘Signal’ President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare

With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, Signal leadership is sounding the alarm for the industry to pull back until threats can be mitigated. At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany, Signal President Meredith Whittaker and VP of Strategy and Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari gave a presentation titled AI Agent, AI Spy...