The keys to your accounts: How personal AI agents like Meta's Muse work, and what they ask of users

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Personal AI agents like Muse and Instinct are reshaping user interaction with tech, handling complex tasks and retaining memory for better personalisation.

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A lot depends on how one defines a personal agent. The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is keen to sell autonomous software that can be set up to carry out multi-step tasks on a user's behalf. Personal AI agents have been in the conversation in recent weeks, largely because of the launch of Muse, Meta's personal AI agent, on September 8, and the public beta of Grok Bot last month. They have been around for a while, though. Manus launched in early 2025, Lindy debuted in early 2024, and OpenClaw, once popular, was first published in November last year.

Muse has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times since its release, according to data from the market intelligence firm Sensor Tower cited by Reuters. Instinct, a...

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