‘Going forward, we will introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.
Addressing this is critical. As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially’
‘We kept stumbling into uses that made us laugh, or surprised us with how moving they could be. We turned friends’ texts into wildly overproduced dramatic readings. We gave ordinary voice notes unnecessarily epic scores. We made meditations, poems, pep talks, and bedtime stories for our kids.’
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