{"id":94850,"topic":"ai","source":"6abc Philadelphia","title":"Meta's Muse AI agent performs tasks, but privacy concerns remain | Action on AI - 6abc Philadelphia","url":"https://6abc.com/post/metas-muse-ai-agent-performs-tasks-privacy-concerns-remain-action/19901988/","url_hash":"d790c8fc449f270ae6251101a607939ad6417fd1","author":"","summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxQQ2FtbDc2cE10dXZuSFJqVTVrdmE1aDUyR2hzaHJvWnJVczJQLVNiX1U3aFpmNGZWYjNRNXBuWUFYeHlaLWVCQVJEam12ZmVPUkY4c2tfMzhVTXRxb3FCUDhjdUZGLXI0T3VVU1dhbGl2VU5ZYTVSYmIyMnFRSmkwcmRxSjltbEtKQ3NIcXpTRENwc002Qjg1N3Uwc2tXd9IBowFBVV95cUxQcGtSUjdMdUFEc3c0ZEhlUTBWSXUycFJKMVJhSE1oODlGTUNPYnVYcmZfaF9xaUJwWlFEbXNoRFJpY0h5akU4TlhyN3A5b1FYYlM1NnRMZC02N09lbXQySlhEX2R1eWdLSVE1cks0UlhMMWI4clV0Z2kwd3gwdW94bU1XQVZqS2Q0M3Rua3Rjekw2THliSnFTdTNfelBIVnI4ek9V?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Meta's Muse AI agent performs tasks, but privacy concerns remain | Action on AI</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">6abc Philadelphia</font>","content":"PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Meta's new AI agent, Muse, is designed to do more than answer questions.\nThe company says the tool can take actions on a user's behalf, including sending messages, making purchases and managing tasks.\nAction News tested the agent's capabilities while also examining privacy and security concerns raised by users and experts.\nThe company says safeguards are built into the system.\nIt claims Muse will \"always check with you before it spends, sends, or shares anything.\"\nIt also says you are the manager: You hand off the tasks, set the rules, keep an eye on the work, and sign off on anything sensitive.\nIn our test, we connected Muse to a Gmail account and asked to \"unsubscribe me from mailing lists I never read.\"\nWithin seconds, the tool identified emails that had consistently gone unopened, allowed selections to be made and then carried out the unsubscribe requests.\nIn another example, Muse was asked to provide a reminder about basketball registration signups.\nAfter locating the signup information in email messages, the agent offered to send a notification before registration opened.\nHowever, Meta acknowledges that users should carefully review the agent's work and gives users pages of fine print to read over its service terms.\nMeta also warns users that the technology is not infallible and that it may make mistakes or take unexpected action.\nMeta said you should always review its work.\nTo perform tasks effectively, Muse requires access to connected applications and information.\nUsers who want Muse to make purchases may also need to provide payment information.\nMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has built protections around sensitive data.\n\"We built a Secure Credential Store for your passwords and credit cards so Muse can't read this information. 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