Who gets a say over a file about you that lives in someone else's AI agent?
When a friend or family member turns on an AI agent that keeps a constantly updated page on everyone in their life, they consented and you didn’t. Should the people being written about have any rights over those pages, or is this just a more thorough version of the memory every close relationship already keeps?
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The October 5, 2026 episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts looked at Wired’s report that Meta’s agent Muse is instructed to build a page for every person in its user’s life, covering facts, history, the state of the relationship and ways to strengthen it, refreshed every hour. Meta’s position is that an agent needs context about you and the people you deal with, and that users can wipe it. The episode takes the “isn’t this just a good memory?” objection seriously, then asks what changes when that memory sits on a company’s system and can be queried by software instead of living in one person’s head. It also draws on John Stuart Mill’s harm principle to ask where one person’s choice to use a tool starts to affect people who never agreed to it. Give the episode a listen and tell us where you would draw the line: with the user, the company, or the person on the page?
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