Privacy Experts Warn as Older Adults Embrace Meta's Muse AI

Meta's AI agent Muse has gained rapid adoption among older adults since its September launch, reaching 10 million U.S. downloads in 40 days, while privacy experts warn about the risks of sharing personal data with the platform. Muse, designed to be beginner-friendly and marketed heavily to Meta's existing user base, skews older than other AI chatbots, with 46% of users aged 46 and above. Users like 82-year-old Eileen Fay rely on it for tasks like comparing Medicare plans, while others use it for companionship and memoir-writing, though experts caution about Meta's data collection practices and its history of privacy violations, including a recent $25 billion court order.