Meet Mark and Sam, the AI agents that ran my errands for a week

Agents like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's dots can act for you: once you hand over access, they buy items, send emails and complete forms, and they are built to feel like texting a friend. A journalist spent a week letting them run errands; one bought a dining table, while the other got flagged as a bot and locked her social accounts, showing that trust is still the open question.

Summary written with AI by HowTechMoves, based on reporting by Scientific American.