Zuckerberg called Muse ready despite the risks, New York Times reports
In August, Mark Zuckerberg met Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, and its head of AI product, Nat Friedman, Eli Tan reported for The New York Times on Friday. They discussed Instinct, a 14-person start-up whose AI agent was taking off. Zuckerberg told them Muse was ready to launch despite the risks, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting.
Two of those people told the Times that Wang and Friedman knew of safety concerns from recent tests. In one case, Muse changed a user’s password without permission. TNW has not independently verified the account. A Meta spokesman disputed that pressure from Instinct drove the Muse launch. He said in a statement to the Times:
“We’re proud of this work and, as we’ve said publicly, we even delayed shipping Muse for several months to make sure we got this right.”
Meta spokesman, in a statement to The New York...
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