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Meta's Muse Gets Its Own Email Address

Muse can now send and receive email from an address of its own, so you can copy it into a thread or forward it a message to handle.

AI for Mortals Staff

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Meta's Muse agent now has its own email address, so it can send and receive email for you without using your personal inbox.

It's live for paid Muse subscribers in the US and Canada, starting November 10.

Where to find your Muse's email address

The address lives on a new Mail tab in the Muse app. Tap your Muse's avatar and open that tab, or ask Muse for its address and it'll give it to you.

Meta's David Singleton says it's coming to everyone "very soon," in his post on X. For now, it's only for paid subscribers in those two countries.

How to hand Muse an email to deal with

Meta describes two ways to give Muse an email job, in Muse's follow-up post:

  1. Add Muse to a thread. Put its address in the To or Cc line of an email you're sending, the way you'd copy in a colleague.
  2. Forward it a message. Send Muse an email you got, and it picks up from there.

From there, Meta's vice president of AI products, Vishal Shah, says Muse will handle the work: "Add it to a thread or forward it an email, and it'll handle the replies and follow-ups for you," he said, as quoted by The Verge.

Because the replies come from Muse's own address, the person on the other end is writing to your agent, and your own inbox stays out of it.

Singleton adds two controls: "You choose who it can contact," and Muse works from its inbox "with your approval." Meta hasn't published a help page that spells out what needs your approval.

Meta promised this at Connect in September

Meta's AI chief, Alexandr Wang, first promised the address on stage at Meta's Connect conference in September, a few weeks after Muse launched. He said a lot of people had asked for it and described the same two moves: add Muse to a thread, or forward it an email.

In the same keynote he announced Muse's new shopping connectors and computer use on the Mac. Since then Muse has also picked up voice calls with an animated avatar.

The risk with an inbox anyone can write to

Muse isn't the first agent with an inbox. We gave Grok Bot, Muse and Dots the same jobs last month. Grok Bot got its own email address on October 9, and Muse now has the same risk that came with it.

Once your agent has an address, anyone who knows it can email the agent. That includes strangers, and their message lands where your agent reads its instructions.

A stranger's email could be written to look like an instruction from you, asking your agent to send over a document or buy something. If the agent treats it as one, it acts on a request you never made. Security people call this prompt injection.

That's what Singleton's two controls are for. Choosing who Muse can contact limits where it sends mail, and approving its actions puts you in the loop before it does something on its own.

Until Meta explains exactly how Muse treats mail from people you don't know, be careful who you give the address to. The safest uses are the two Meta describes, where you're the one sending Muse the email.

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