AI assistants are finally ready to help you run your life. All you need to do is trust them with your email login, your contacts, and your credit card — and hope they don’t go rogue.
Meta, Google, and the buzzy startup Instinct have rolled out personal AI agents in recent months that promise to handle tasks such as booking travel, buying concert tickets, and scouring Facebook Marketplace for deals.
At a basic level, these agents behave largely the same way. You send the agent a request via an app or WhatsApp — or, in the case of the newly launched Rene agent, via iMessage — and leave it to complete the task.
The catch is that AI agents are only…
