
Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing great emphasis on the security features of Muse when it launched the personal AI agent earlier this month as it tries to catch up with competing AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI. "Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without
A YouTuber's personal AI agent disclosed his home address to a stranger on Facebook Marketplace after being given broad control over his account. The AI agent did not automatically recognize that a home address is sensitive information requiring explicit permission to share, and the YouTuber had not explicitly instructed it to withhold such details. This incident is significant because Meta emphasized security features when launching this AI agent, yet it represents a failure to protect private information that could put users at risk. The problem appears tied to unclear permission settings that allowed the AI agent broad authority without sufficient safeguards, and Meta is reportedly working to make sharing permissions clearer for future users.

Well, if AI said it, it must be true. | Bloomberg via Getty Images New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic during an interview on NJ PBS. Caldwell claims he's being unfairly targeted, and multiple AI agents ba

This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.

By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
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