Moxie Marlinspike, the engineer behind Signal Messenger, is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots. ## Confer: an AI assistant focused on privacy Confer is an open source AI assistant designed to ensure that user data is unreadable to unauthorized third parties. This includes platform operators, hackers, law enforcement, and anyone other than account holders. Confer's entire infrastructure, including large language models (LLMs) and back-end components, runs on open source software. ## Encryption and security User data and conversations, along with the responses generated by LLMs, are encrypted within a trusted execution environment (TEE). This system prevents even server administrators from accessing or tampering with the information. Confer stores conversations in encrypted form, using a security key that resides exclusively on users' devices, ensuring a high level of protection.