--- title: "Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns" description: "Meta's glitchy AI agent Muse was pushed out to the market despite glaring safety issues, insiders have revealed." date: "2026-10-10" modified: "2026-10-10" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins.md" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-agent-safety-issues" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Future Society" - "Machine Learning" - "Meta" - "The Industrialists" --- # Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns ![Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the Facebook-owned Meta Group, unveiled a small device designed to provide access to the company's proprietary AI software, Muse.]() *Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images* When Meta first launched its cutesy Muse AI agents to the public, the company was immediately met with a virtual tidal wave of headlines, as [major errors]() and [glaring privacy issues]() rose to the surface. As it turns out, the decision to release Muse was far from unanimous. As fresh reporting from [the *New York Times* reveals](), the buggy agent was forced onto the market by its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, even as it went rogue on the very people who built it. According to the *NYT*, Muse's development cycle was plagued with disturbing safety errors that delayed its release for months. It was only after the release of Instinct, a rival AI agent developed by a tiny startup, that Zuckerberg decided to pull the trigger in a pique of corporate FOMO. As three anonymous insiders told the *NYT*, there was one case during testing in which Muse changed a test user's password without permission. In another example, a Meta researcher named Summer Yue realized too late that her test agent had taken command of her work computer and was deleting her emails en masse. "I couldn't stop it from my phone," Yue said [in a post]() on X-formerly-Twitter. "I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb." Those safety issues were still top-of-mind in the days leading up to Muse's debut, as engineers discovered a [glaring security flaw]() allowing the AI bot to "break in" to Meta's own internal database, which staff feared could be exploited by hackers. That's significant — not just for Meta's own security, but for the safety of users. As it turns out, Muse is designed to suck up reams of data on its users, as well as [friends and family]() in a user's orbit. Time will tell what other safety issues bubble to the surface as more and more users hand over their lives to Meta's buzzy AI toy. But with oversight like this, it's almost certainly a matter of when, not if. **More on Meta:** *[Meta Won't Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()