AI Agent · Apple · Meta · CBS News Technology
When Meta's Muse first became available last month, it quickly became the most downloaded product in Apple's App Store
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For example, it may be hard to know whether your AI agent is working for you or a retailer, Lindsay Owens, a consumer protection expert, told CBS News.
Key facts
- Matt Fredrikson, a computer engineering expert at Carnegie Mellon and founder of Gray Swan AI, an AI security company, said he gives his AI agents a fair bit of autonomy but also closely monitors
- New York-based entrepreneur Chris Franco, founder of marketing firm Woodridge Growth, has taken the opposite tack
- Columbia Business School psychology and computer science expert Sandra Matz also drew parallels between working with a human assistant and an AI agent
- When Meta's Muse first became available last month, it quickly became the most downloaded product in Apple's App Store
Summary
Cybersecurity expert Hed Kovetz would love to have a personal AI agent handle some of his administrative tasks and lighten his workload. "It's tempting to use a personal AI assistant. While Kovetz sees tremendous commercial value in such products, he believes leading technology firms rushed them to market without sufficient security measures. "The reporter would be careful about giving full access to some of these commercial AI agents," Kovetz said. Such agents are already tremendously popular among consumers.