{"slug": "metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database", "title": "Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read Jason Aten’s Messages Database", "summary": "Meta's new Muse AI agent sent Inc. columnist Jason Aten a push notification suggesting a column idea based on a private conversation with his Primary Technology podcast co-host Stephen Robles, despite Aten having explicitly declined to grant Muse access to his messages and calendar. Aten said Muse also flagged a message from his editor about a Monday column deadline, and that when he asked Muse how it knew, the agent did not provide a clear answer.", "body_md": "Jason Aten, writing for Inc:\n\nThen, yesterday, I was having a conversation with my Primary Technology podcast co-host, Stephen Robles, about the new iPhones. Moments later, I got a push notification from Muse suggesting that the conversation we were having would make for a good column and offered to put together research for me to write about. It even flagged a message from my editor about having a column ready for Monday.\n\nNot only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages, calendar, and other personal information.\n\nStranger still was what happened when I asked Muse how it knew.\n\nLike I [told Aten on Threads](https://www.threads.com/share/JLXMWFkcA/), Muse was right about one thing: it did give him a good idea for a column.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database", "canonical_source": "https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-to/91408202", "published_at": "2026-09-22 21:26:24+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 21:52:30.421409+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Meta", "Muse", "Jason Aten", "Inc.", "Stephen Robles", "Primary Technology", "Threads"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-jason-atens-messages-database.jsonld"}}