Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots Personal AI Agents Arrive as Experts Warn of Data and Money Risks
Photo: AxiosMeta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, two new personal AI agents, are hitting the market, and experts are warning of the risks of giving such chatbots access to users' personal data and money. AI companies are racing to build a digital assistant that people turn to for tasks ranging from shopping to travel planning. In one hands-on test, a writer put both agents through their paces by using a trip to the WNBA Finals as a testing ground, while deliberately not giving the agents access to their wallet. That test also pointed to a gap between what the agents can do and what is expected of them.
Right-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while left-leaning and alternative/independent outlets had. Left-leaning coverage, from CBS News, focuses on the risks, with reporter Megan Cerullo relaying expert warnings about handing agents data and money. Alternative coverage, from Axios, is a first-person experiment, billed as a head-to-head between the two agents, and puts the industry race and the limits of current abilities in the foreground. Both sides name Muse and Dots and agree on the basic premise that the agents are newly available.
How the sides differ Left sources stress expert warnings about giving agents data and money; alternative sources stress a hands-on trip-planning test; right sources have not covered it.
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CBS News leads with expert warnings about the risks of giving personal AI agents like Muse and Dots access to data and money, with reporter Megan Cerullo presenting the story.
Axios offers a first-person test of Dots and Muse planning a WNBA Finals trip, withholding the writer's wallet, and frames it around the industry race and the gap between what agents can do and expectations.
Not covering this story. None of the right-leaning outlets Crosswire tracks has reported it yet. What one side leaves out can be as telling as what the others report.