Meta's Muse AI agent is very powerful — but not enough to overcome my kids' annoying school apps
A user tests Meta's new AI agent, Muse, finding it effective for simple organizational tasks like email management but unreliable for complex administrative forms. The author expresses personal comfort with sharing private data with the AI despite broader privacy concerns.
Why it matters
It highlights the growing consumer adoption of AI personal assistants and the ongoing tension between convenience and data privacy.
The Meta Muse AI agent, which acts as a personal assistant of sorts. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images I spent a week trying out Muse and gave it access to my email, credit cards, and even Apple health data. It was able to do some helpful tasks for me, like organizing my inbox, but failed at helping with school forms. Even though it failed fairly often, I imagine it will get better and more useful. I'm a convert! There are a whole slew of very good reasons that I should feel nervous about giving Meta access to my health data. Or my credit cards. Or read/write access to my personal and work emails and calendar.
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