A Forecaster research draft
By Kevin L. Michel
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AI & tomorrow · COMPLETE RESEARCH DRAFT
YOUR ASSISTANT HAS A BOSS
Who AI Really Serves When It Starts Running Your Life
A proposed guide to the relationships behind a personal AI assistant: the user giving instructions, the company operating the service, and the businesses whose products it recommends. Through scenarios involving shopping, travel, subscriptions, and administrative tasks, the book would examine the differences between advice, permission, and delegated action. It would explain how to inspect a recommendation, understand data access, set spending boundaries, and review or reverse an action where the service permits it. Commercial incentives would be investigated rather than presumed: an assistant can save time while still raising questions about how its options are selected and whose objectives its decisions reflect.
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Contents
- The Errand That Comes Back Finished
- Who Gets Paid When You Say Yes?
- The Choices You Never See
- What Permission Carries
- The Price of a Quiet Night
- Where the Brakes Belong
- The Receipt After the Mistake
- A Helper You Can Leave
The idea behind the book +
Meta introduced Muse in September 2026 as an agent designed to carry out tasks, according to its announcement. Separately, the FTC’s chatbot inquiry asks companies about monetization, disclosures, and use of conversation data. The inquiry is a request for information, not a finding of wrongdoing. Together these sources frame questions about delegation and commercial incentives without assuming that every AI service operates in the same way.
