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Meredith Whittaker

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

The structured facts the source records about Meredith Whittaker, the count of declared adjacencies in the corpus, and the federation map zoomed on this node and its neighbours.

person

↑1 declared connection

Kind
Person
Status
active
Confidence
high
Entity ID
person-meredith-whittaker
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Tags united-states, tech-worker-organizing, ai-accountability, privacy, labor-organizing, corporate-accountability, google-walkout, signal-foundation, ai-now-institute

Meredith Whittaker · 1 direct neighbour visible

02 · Connections

1 adjacency, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Meredith Whittaker’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity.

Inferred backlinks

1 link

Other records that name this entity.

03 · Background

From the source record.

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President of the Signal Foundation (September 2022–; board member since 2020) and co-founder and former Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU, launched alongside Kate Crawford in November 2017 as the first university research institute dedicated to the social implications of AI. During thirteen years at Google (2006–July 2019) she founded Google's Open Research Group and co-founded M-Lab, the globally distributed open internet-measurement platform; in April 2018 she was a core organiser of the employee petition against Project Maven — signed by more than 3,100 Google workers — that successfully ended the company's Pentagon drone-AI contract, and later that year co-organised the November 2018 Google Walkout For Real Change. She served as senior advisor on artificial intelligence to the FTC chair from November 2021 to September 2022.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

4 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. signal.org

    Checked 2026-06-10

    Signal Foundation blog post (6 September 2022) announcing Whittaker as first Signal president; primary-source disclosure of her board membership since 2020 and the creation of the president role in collaboration with Signal leadership

  2. ainowinstitute.org

    Checked 2026-06-10

    AI Now Institute people page — primary-source disclosure of her co-founder role and current chief advisor position at the Institute

  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Checked 2026-06-10

    Wikipedia entry — secondary source for career timeline at Google (2006–July 2019), founding of Google Open Research Group and co-founding of M-Lab, AI Now Institute co-founding with Kate Crawford (November 2017), FTC senior-advisor-on-AI role (November 2021–September 2022), and Signal presidency (September 2022–)

  4. gizmodo.com

    Checked 2026-06-10

    Gizmodo reporting (4 April 2018) — confirms 3,100+ signatories on the Project Maven petition and documents her role as a core organiser of the employee action

Source: entities/persons/person-meredith-whittaker.md — movement-graph pin 5d136ad.