{"id":233275,"date":"2026-04-20T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:45:15","slug":"no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNo flashy AI features.\u201d Signal president explains why the messenger is ditching trends in favor of privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ua\/en\/news\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy\">\u201cNo flashy AI features.\u201d Signal president explains why the messenger is ditching trends in favor of privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ua\/en\/news\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy\">https:\/\/dev.ua\/en\/news\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 05:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"dev.ua\">dev.ua<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The platform&#8217;s main and sole mission will remain to protect the fundamental human right to private and secure communication.<\/p>\n<p> The Signal messenger will not integrate popular artificial intelligence tools and will not expand its functionality to suit market trends. This was stated by Signal President Meredith Whittaker during a speech at the FIBE-2026 technology conference in Berlin, Interfax-Ukraine reports .<\/p>\n<p> Whittaker says Signal\u2019s nonprofit status and its sole funding from donors are key advantages. Unlike commercial ecosystems where \u201cthe economic engine is fueled by surveillance,\u201d the messenger has no investors or board of directors demanding constant revenue growth or monetization of user data.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe might consider expanding, but we would never do anything that compromises our integrity\u2026 We\u2019re not going to add a bunch of fancy AI features or expand beyond our capabilities. We have no plans to metastasize to the app level right now,\u201d the platform\u2019s president emphasized.<\/p>\n<p> Whittaker noted that instead of implementing artificial intelligence into the messenger\u2019s functionality, the team will focus on protecting against it. The development of offensive AI technologies creates new risks, in particular regarding automated scanning of systems for vulnerabilities. Therefore, the small development team, which operates with an annual budget of about $50 million, has to devote even more time to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We are well aware of our responsibility to care for the people who use us in many vital situations. So we will remain free from artificial intelligence and will not be annoying,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, answered questions about artificial intelligence and the Confer AI assistant in a blitz interview for dev.ua. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ua\/en\/news\/no-flashy-ai-features-signal-president-explains-why-the-messenger-is-ditching-trends-in-favor-of-privacy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo flashy AI features.\u201d Signal president explains why the messenger is ditching trends in favor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dev.ua\/storage\/images\/11\/32\/91\/03\/derived\/4fab0d06b6664f920df3b11a20a10d09.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233277,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233275\/revisions\/233277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}