Meta Expands Muse AI Agent with Real-Time Avatars, Smart Glasses Integration, and Autonomous Mac Computer Use

Skynet Chance (+0.01%): Meta plans to give billions of users an autonomous agent that runs in the background, controls desktops, and makes purchases on their behalf, which makes misaligned or hijacked agent behavior harder to oversee. The agent still acts for individual users within set tasks, so the added risk is modest.

Skynet Date (+0 days): Quickly rolling out autonomous agents with payment and app access to a mass consumer audience speeds up how deeply AI is built into real-world systems. It also cuts short the time available to develop oversight practices.

AGI Progress (0%): The features mostly productize agentic capabilities that competitors already offer, such as computer use and tool connectors. The multimodal agentic model and real-time avatar model are gradual steps, not fundamental breakthroughs.

AGI Date (+0 days): Meta's all-in investment and its free token offering add competitive pressure and funding to agent development. This could modestly speed up progress across the industry.