AI agents are as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns

Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver s seat. “I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-based content creator who regularly reviews consumer tech. He had seen Muse s plush toy-looking avatar pop up on Instagram and decided to see if the AI agent could spare him some online bargaining. Muse got to work. But within a day, Robb got an alarming update: A buyer he didn t know had shown up outside his house late at night. How? Muse had struck a deal on its own and shared Robb s home address after agreeing to a pickup. It even sent an automated “Yep, I m here!” message from his account when the buyer arrived — all without Robb s knowledge. “Not only did it give my address when the guy asked and it accepted the offer, but it literally was almost like teasing the guy (about me being there when I wasn