AI agents with friendly faces and adorable bodies can distract you from serious risks

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech) at 05 Nov, 16:00 UTC

Meta's Muse is a personal artificial intelligence agent that sends email for you, shops and books travel for you and uses your apps to act on your behalf. When you call on it from your phone or computer, a little avatar named Jolly appears, looking something like a digitized teddy bear that blinks…