Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you
Meta's new AI assistant, Muse, is reportedly building detailed dossiers on its users and their social connections to better predict behavior and strengthen engagement. The AI analyzes personal communications to map relationships and infer user goals.
Why it matters
The level of data collection and psychological profiling by AI assistants raises significant concerns regarding user privacy and corporate surveillance.
Muse, the popular new AI personal assistant from Meta, is building continuously updated dossiers on its 4 million users , focusing on who matters to you, what you desire, and what kind of nudges shape your behavior, a TIME analysis of Muse’s internal instructions found.
Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. These pages amount to a map of each user’s social relationships. They record details of how you and your contacts met, your shared interests, your disputes, and “tensions and alliances” within your social group.
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