TechCrunch
Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. In the course of our conversation, we delved into Signal’s recent war of words with Elon Musk, Telegram’s Pavel Durov, and — given its controversial clash with Scarlett Johanson — Whittaker’s candid thoughts about the leadership at OpenAI, which she likened to "dorm room high-jinks.” Among other things, Whittaker is concerned about the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms, especially in year when the world faces a large number of general elections, not least in the U.S., and Europe's reliance on U.S.-based, external, tech giants.